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Hostile takeover: NATO’s annexation of Montenegro
NATO’s stealth takeover of the tiny but geopolitically significant nation represents the Balkans’ latest submission to U.S. global hegemony.
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Inside AIPAC’s strategy to back Israel’s cheerleaders and punish the Squad
The powerful lobby and allied groups have poured money into defeating candidates who voice any criticism of Israel. Amid calls for a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Gaza, they’re back at it again.
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‘We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,’ Israeli Minister announces
Denying the Nakba is normally a central tenet of Zionism.
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The largest pro-Palestinian protest in U.S. history was “a turning point.” Now it’s spreading
“Felt like this was a new wave or a turning point in the struggle for Palestine.”
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Everyone is Hitler, when it suits—just not Western leaders
A few signs depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Adolf Hitler were postered in Sydney over the weekend. The police reportedly are investigating and urging people to contact Crime Stoppers if they have any “information in relation to the incident”.
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Working more, making less: Life under “Bidenomics”
Political commentators aligned with the Democratic Party are expressing growing frustration about this “disconnect.”
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CFA Franc System in Francophone Africa: A tool of French financial imperialism
The independence of French Indochina after the Second World War triggered a wave of independence in the French-speaking African countries, and it appeared that French colonial foundations had suffered a huge blow in the early 1960s.
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Climate groups plan to appeal as Judge upholds Biden approval of Willow Drilling Project
“Beyond the illegality of Willow’s approval, Interior’s decision to greenlight the project in the first place moved us in the opposite direction of our national climate goals in the face of the worsening climate crisis.”
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Leaked: British spies constructed Zionist propaganda network
It is uncertain what came of Lafayeedney’s meetings in “Israel”. But not long after, the campaign to torpedo Corbyn’s chances of becoming prime minister became turbocharged.
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Mass walkouts by garment workers in Bangladesh
The cost-of-living crisis on top of the extreme exploitative conditions of the garment industry has erupted into a major outbreak of workers’ unrest, reports John Clarke.
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BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”
This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is ‘Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.’
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The Free Speech exception
Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.
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Western Left and the U.S.-China contradiction
Significant segments of the non-Communist Western Left see the developing contradiction between the United States and China in terms of an inter-imperialist rivalry.
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A letter from Ukraine
We received and we publish the following letter from our comrade Maxim Goldarb, Chairman of the party “Union of Left Forces – For New Socialism”
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Boarding Schools probe tells U.S. history of genocide
Inhumane treatment and physical abuse were widespread in two major boarding schools from 1892-1909.
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Africa vs Colonialism: Why does the Continent’s struggle for self-sufficiency remain so difficult?
Regional organizations are trying to overcome the legacy of their dependence on the West.
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The Ukraine and Israeli/Palestine conflicts show the demise of Western imperialism and foreshadow its coming collapse
Dmitri Kovalevich is the special correspondent in Ukraine for Al Mayadeen English. He writes a monthly situation report for the publication as well as occasional special reports, such as the following.
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‘The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England’ – book review
Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World gives a vivid and illuminating account of the revolutionary seventeenth century in Britain, finds Waseem Ahmed.
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The lies and secrets of French imperialism
The coups in sub-Saharan Africa have opened a new era for the African peoples rising against French imperialism.
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The globalisation of McCarthyism
The central government’s hounding of Newsclick reminds one of the children’s story about a tiger and a goat drinking water from the same stream.