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Cambodian Premier reminds Ukraine of the horrors of cluster bombs
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen recalls Cambodia’s “painful experience” with U.S.-dropped cluster munitions in the 1970s, which continue to cause casualties to this date.
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Healing the wounds of War in Vietnam
From 1964 to 1973, the United States released 6,162,000 tons of bombs and other ordnance in Indochina, far greater than the combined amount during the Second World War and the Korean War.
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No justice, no peace in France
“Tout le monde deteste la police!”—Everyone hates the police—was chanted at demonstrations and riots across France last week.
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‘The gravity of the situation cannot be overstated’: an eyewitness account from the Israeli assault on Jenin
As the occupation relentlessly tightens its grip on the Jenin refugee camp, the message is crystal clear–punish the stronghold of popular resistance. But they will not succeed and will only breed a new generation to carry the torch.
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Human suffering worsens in DRC, the heart of Africa
A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.
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OceanGate and how the wealthy kill
The saga of the OceanGate Titan submersible was the sort of story that rivets millions of people. Not only was it revealed that passengers paid $250,000 to see the wreck of the Titanic, but the vessel was poorly built, and its creator ignored warnings about its defects and continued to use it.
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A deeply misleading narrative
A Deeply Misleading Narrative: Answering the Claims of Cedric Robinson’s ‘Black Marxism’.
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Journalist Randy Credico has been placed on Ukrainian terrorist “kill-list” via CIA project website
Friends are urging Credico to go underground.
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Habermas and the war in Ukraine
The prevailing rarefied ideological climate that Germany and most European countries are suffering from today makes a very cautious call for prudence and negotiation a criminal offense that deserves to be punished with ostracism.
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Late night thoughts from a dialectical transfeminist
An economy of representation has done folks like Jordan Neely and Banko Brown an incredible disservice. TERFs have seized upon their deaths to justify carceral deputization among non-police actors, triangulating their respective forms of manhood and their overall embodiments with a threat to public safety and to asset protection.
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Dark history: How the U.S. experimented on its own people
For years, government-related institutes have experimented on their own citizens, mainly minorities, to serve their own interests. Infamous and not entirely disclosed, here are some of the most unethical operations done by the U.S. on its own people and soil.
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Argentina: Repression against indigenous people in Jujuy (+human rights in Venezuela)
Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers’ rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20.
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On the fundamental rights of the sex workers and others in India
It is for about one and a half decades now that our Sex Workers are raising the issues related to their lack of professional, legal and social rights before the members of the Other Sections of our society.
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Two episodes at sea: The submersible Titan and hundreds of refugees drowned in the Mediterranean
It is inevitable that such an event, in which there is a race against time and the elements, should attract the interest and concern of tens of millions.
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Daniel Ellsberg is lauded in death by the same media that lets Assange rot in jail
The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked.
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Why the world’s most bombed country may still suffer from these wounds after a hundred years
Laos is a country in Southeast Asia with a rich development potential based on vast water resources as well as minerals including gold.
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Discovering largest known U.S. slave auction
Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified, Jennifer Berry Hawes reports.
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Russia won’t let Ukraine be bleeding wound
Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Kiev has lost 186 tanks, 418 armoured vehicles, losses mounting,” St. Petersburg, June 16, 2023
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Assange: An unholy masquerade of tyranny disguised as justice
Julian’s persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state.
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A trans person reflects on Cuba and Florida
Melinda Butterfield: “As I sat in Miami, I was keenly aware that Gov. Ron DeSantis was preparing to sign several laws aimed at banning trans people from public life and getting the health care they need to live.” (DeSantis did sign these laws just a few days later, not by coincidence, on May 17 – the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.)