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The throne behind the power – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on the loss and replacement of a UK monarch.
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Imperialism and Taiwan
The recent visit of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan has sharply increased the prospect of war in the region.
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With fire and courage
Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin’s poetry in Chicana on Fire (2022) is testimonial and collective.
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Abortion foes target their next Supreme Court fight
The right is now trying to use a Rhode Island case to get the high court to create a federal abortion ban.
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NYT scolds China for not ‘learning to live’—or die—with Covid
Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results.
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‘Billions for Ukraine–we say billions for Jackson’
In 2022, in the richest country the world has ever seen, Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has no water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing a toilet, or fighting a fire. As of this moment, the situation is predicted to continue “indefinitely.”
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No room for love in Apartheid Israel
The right to intimacy serves as both a realm of domination as well as a form of resistance under Israeli settler-colonialism.
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Steve Fraser, the Rogue Court, then and now
Has the Trump Supreme Court gone rogue? The evidence mounts. Certainly, its recent judicial blitzkrieg has run roughshod over a century’s worth of settled law.
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The historic collapse of journalism
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters, writes Patrick Lawrence.
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CHEAT SHEET: Health Care’s secret middleman
In just five minutes we’ll tell you what you need to know about the shadowy power of pharmacy benefit managers.
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We need a new “Church Committee” to curb massive intelligence agency criminality ranging from illegal surveillance to torture and assassination
Russia-Gate and CIA ties to Ukrainian death squads, along with killer drone program and worldwide surveillance apparatus, necessitates new investigations of U.S. intelligence agencies modeled after the Church Committee hearings of 1975.
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Chile rejects a new and revolutionary Constitution: Shadows of the dictatorial past are imposed
The Chilean people demonstrated at the ballot box against the proposal of the new Constitution of Chile, with an unappealable result, according to the final official bulletin of the Electoral Service of Chile (Servel) with a 62% rejection of the constitutional project against a 38% of approval; the vote was mandatory, hence the participation has exceeded 13 million voters.
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Uvalde Vive
In tragedy’s wake, a fiery movement for justice emerges in a South Texas town that’s known an uprising before.
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At least 36% of mass shooters have been trained by the U.S. Military
WHERE DO AMERICA’S MASS SHOOTERS COME FROM??–It is extremely easy in the United States to obtain guns, to find places to practice using them, and to find trainers willing to teach you to use them.
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How France underdevelops Africa
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) – Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in other post-colonial African economies.
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Biden to name Ukraine war general
President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general.
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FBI behind seizure of Venezuelan plane in Argentina
The incident gets so little media attention despite the fact that Argentinian authorities detained 19 crew members at a Buenos Aires airport at the behest of Washington.
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Pledging “pain,” Federal Reserve declares war on the working class
In his speech Friday at the Federal Reserve’s annual summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made one thing clear: America’s financial oligarchy is determined to make the working class bear the cost of the deepening economic crisis.
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U.S. imperialism: Reflections from a Ukrainian mirror
War is like a volcanic eruption in that it both exposes and obscures the clash of powerful forces.
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FBI harasses Cuban solidarity activists from Puerto Rico for delivering medical aid to the island
The president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee (CSC) of Puerto Rico, Milagros Rivera, denounces the intimidation operation unleashed by federal agents through calls and visits to several activists of the Committee and members of the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade.