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Institutionalized corruption: India’s electoral bonds scandal exposes Modi’s money laundering machine
On February 15, 2024, a five-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India declared in a unanimous verdict that the electoral bond scheme of anonymous corporate donations to political parties was unconstitutional.
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The U.S. is witnessing a considerable growth in strike activity
Cornell University’s Labour Action Tracker reports have noted a 77 per cent growth in strikes since 2021.
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First city-wide rent reduction in the history of New York State, ordered by the Rent Guidelines Board of Kingston, New York, is upheld by Appellate Court
New York State’s Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974 permits the regulation of residential rents (“rent stabilization”) on the declaration of a housing emergency in New York City when the vacancy rate falls below 5%, or by similar declarations in municipalities in the suburban New York City counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland.
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Trade unionists shut down UK arms factories demanding halt of arms exports to Israel
Hundreds of trade unionists have blockaded major arms factories in England and Scotland today (March 21, 2024) demanding the UK Government halt arms supplies to Israel.
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Against climate fascism
Alex Roberts examines the multiple ways that the far right has responded to the climate crisis.
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Corporate power is killing the planet
In the 1950s, a system of corporate courts was created to allow Western businesses to sue the Global South for threatening their profits—and now fossil fuel giants are using it to stop any country from fighting the climate crisis.
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What Julian Assange taught us about empire
The truth, it turns out, won’t set you free: under capitalism it can get you locked up. That’s what Julian Assange discovered when he spoke truth to power.
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Russia and China veto U.S. resolution on Gaza over failure to explicitly demand ceasefire
As Israel prepares for a ground invasion of Rafah, the U.S.-authored resolution presented to the UN Security Council merely noted an “imperative” for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Algeria, Russia, and China rejected the resolution, stating that it had failed to deliver on the core demand for a ceasefire.
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Flour massacre called ‘aid-related deaths’—rather than part of Israel’s engineered famine
Over 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded on February 29, when Israeli snipers opened fire on people approaching a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed supplies of flour. The attack was quickly dubbed the flour massacre.
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Taurus and the bullfighters: Berlin Bulletin No. 221, March 23, 2024
Weapons, weapons, weapons—the more the better! With ever louder talk about “the foe” and “protective measures”, as if Putin were amassing troops or maneuvering warships along German borders—instead of just the opposite taking place in the Baltic and Lithuania…The blitzkrieg-laden spirit of 1941 Germany is all over the media.
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Once more on poverty figures of India
Poverty in short had increased significantly between 2011-12 and 2017-18. After 2017-18 we have had a pandemic, and a lockdown induced by it, from which the economy is just recovering, though unemployment today is higher than before the pandemic.
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How the western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza
From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters.
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Why Niger declared U.S. Military presence in its territory illegal
Niger declared the U.S. military deployment in its territory “illegal” on Saturday, March 16, after a U.S. delegation allegedly threatened “retaliation” against the largest country in West Africa for its ties with Russia and Iran.
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New York Times readers are the least informed ones
One presumes that readers of a media institution which calls itself the ‘paper of record’ would be informed about an important issue which in other media has for month led the headlines of the day.
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Washington’s New Cold War: U.S. Special Forces train Taiwan troops in drone warfare
The Green Berets are training Taiwanese forces on the use of military drones including the Black Hornet Nano, like those being used by U.S.-advised forces in Ukraine.
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‘We call for the respect of Haitian popular sovereignty and an end to Western imperialist intervention’
After months of the U.S., Core Group, and other imperialist collaborators working to execute an armed intervention into Haiti that they are now calling a “Multinational Security Service,” ex-de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned from his illegitimately-held position.
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Israel is starving Palestinians to death while the world watches
Israel has deliberately slowed the flow of aid to Gaza with hundreds of trucks stranded on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border at a time when over two dozen Palestinian children have died of malnutrition.
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‘Another assault on the African (Black) youth’; BAP-Baltimore and Ujima People’s Progress Party denounce Maryland’s unjust juvenile justice bill
The Black Alliance For Peace Baltimore Citywide Alliance and The Ujima People’s Progress Party of Maryland strongly condemns Maryland House of Delegates for advancing House Bill 814.
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Making sense of the interregnum since 2007-9
There is no doubt that we live in perilous times. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, the environmental crisis, the care crisis, the cost of living crisis, the migration crisis, and now the unfolding disaster in the Middle East continue to pile up chaotically.
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Why are U.S. lawmakers dead set on banning TikTok?
Past efforts to ban the enormously popular app in the United States have failed. Recent success could be linked to the popularity of the Palestine solidarity movement.