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Who’s afraid of U.S. troops in Ukraine?
Very innocuously, the Biden Administration has ‘sensitised’ the world opinion that American troops are indeed present on Ukrainian soil in Russia’s immediate neighbourhood. Washington made a “soft landing” with an unnamed senior Pentagon official making the disclosure to the Associated Press and the Washington Post.
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Lessons from the rise of Mussolini, 100 years on
One hundred years ago, in October 1922, Benito Mussolini’s paramilitary blackshirts marched on the Italian capital to demand the dissolution of the government of Prime Minister Luigi Facta.
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Politicians make Black people the face of crime
Manufactured crime panics are still a successful method of getting votes from white people.
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A failure to review America’s nuclear posture
President Joe Biden has passed on his best chance to operationalize his stated goal of reducing the role in US security policy of America’s more than 5,400 nuclear weapons with the public release on October 27 of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).
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Liberal Democracy: The Bedfellow of fascism
Antifascism, as a politic and concept, has grown more appealing in the last 6 years because of the rise of right-wing authoritarianism domestically and globally rooted in patriarchy and ongoing (settler) colonialism.
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Whatever happened to Liz Truss?
The most intriguing question with regard to Liz Truss’ resignation as the prime minister of Britain after a mere 44 days in office is this: what is it about her economic programme that the “market” (read “finance capital”) found unpalatable?
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Largest leak in British political history, ignored by media
For those of you who aren’t British, you might not have kept up with what happened to the once almost-prime minister Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party over the past few years. Here’s a 30-second, way to reductive rundown. Jeremy Corbyn is like Britain’s Bernie Sanders, except more left-wing. And he never gave 135 speeches […]
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Is Dennis Kucinich the last Democrat for peace?
Former Congressman and Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich joins Scheer Intelligence to discuss the Dems’ infamously rescinded peace letter and the future with China.
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What accounts for the war lust among American Liberals?
This past June, Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy adviser Matt Duss (an alumnus of the Saudi- and UAE- funded Center for American Progress) published a widely discussed essay in The New Republic in which he declared that American liberals and progressives need to prioritize expressions of “solidarity” with Ukraine over policies that might put an end to the bloodshed.
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Worthless House Progressives retract mild peace advocacy under pressure from warmongers
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has retracted an extremely mild, toothless letter its members had written to c politely asking him to consider adding a little diplomacy into the mix to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The retraction followed a deluge of public outrage against their slight deviation from the official imperial narrative.
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The American Empire runs through the compact States
U.S. officials envision imperial roles for Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
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55% of humanity does not reject the accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
On October 12, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution rejecting the accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine.
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Europe’s self destruction
Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.
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U.S. Chip War version 2: Decoupling from China or declaring war?
The U.S. has gambled big in its latest, across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap China and retain its global dominance.
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U.S. police kill twice as many people every year as we’ve been told
Most countries are far different from the U.S. when it comes to murderous police..
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The last thing Haiti needs is another military intervention: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2022)
At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’.
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Blinken falsely blames China for U.S. hostility directed at it
On Monday U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken made a curious remark: “China plans to seize Taiwan on ‘much faster timeline.”
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Of, by, and for the elite: The class character of the U.S. Constitution
In history and civics classrooms all over the United States, students are taught from an early age to revere the “Founding Fathers” for drafting a document that is the bulwark of democracy and freedom—the U.S. Constitution.
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Environmental racism is poisoning the waters in the U.S.
Thousands of people in U.S. cities have been left without access to clean water. Communities say institutional racism is to blame.
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Analysis: Nine key moments that changed China’s mind about climate change
China says on the international stage that it wants to tackle climate change, but it also says it must deliver “national energy security”. The decade ahead will show whether it can meet this challenge. The whole world is relying on it doing so.