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In an age of forever wars, American popular culture has reimagined its veterans as victims rather than agents of empire
Long Forgotten Is the Role that Veteran Anti-War Activists Played in Ending the Vietnam War.
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Top democrat-linked PR firm tapped by pro-Israel groups to control Gaza war narrative
On December 6, it was announced with much fanfare that the 10/7 Project, a new “centralized communications operation to promote continued U.S. bipartisan support for Israel; push for accurate, complete coverage of the Israel-Hamas war,” and achieve a “stronger” media “focus” on the victims of October 7’s Al-Aqsa Flood would be launched, by a quintet […]
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The Russian Art of War: How the West led Ukraine to defeat
The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war.
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Survivors recount harrowing Israeli field executions
In Gaza City, Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinians at point blank range, killing them in front of their families.
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As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are charting a new course—one of increased economic and security sovereignty.
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Ukraine and Palestine: A double threat to U.S. hegemony
The outcome of U.S.-led conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia will have a profound impact on the developing world order. Washington has already lost the former, and its major adversaries are vested in making sure it loses the latter too.
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United States Armed Forces: Ready for war? (II)
U.S. military spending is almost equal to that of the 10 countries that follow it in the table, including Russia, China and India, its NATO allies, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy as well as Japan, Korea of the South and Ukraine.
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Thirty years of failure on climate: How did it come to this?
It’s more than 50 years since scientists first came to understand that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities could be drivers of a potentially catastrophic warming of the world’s climate.
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There is a war coming shrouded in propaganda. It will involve us. Speak up
In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war.
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John Pilger (1939-2023)
A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away.
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The mess they made of 2023
Abroad and at home, ideology ruled the U.S.
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How Yemen changed everything
In a single move, Yemen’s Ansarallah has checkmated the west and its rules-based order.
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Lee Sun-kyun’s death is a reminder of the lie of South Korean liberalism
The actor’s suicide highlights the truth about the overlooked despotism of a vital U.S. ally.
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The World’s Economic Centre of Gravity is returning to Asia: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2023)
In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report. Nothing in the report came as a major surprise. The growth of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to decline with no sign of a rebound.
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Israel is brutally torturing Palestinian detainees in Gaza
Reports show that Israeli forces are executing Palestinian civilians in Gaza in front of their families and keeping detainees in open air concentration camps in violation of international laws on warfare.
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Review: ‘The Case for a Job Guarantee’ by Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Pavlina Tcherneva, a Professor of Economics at Bard College and a Research Scholar at the Levy Institute, has written a concisely, argued case for a federal job guarantee within the context of a Green New Deal.
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‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.
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2023’s costliest weather disasters reveal ‘double inequality’ of climate crisis
“There is a global postcode lottery that is stacked against the poor,” Christian Aid’s chief executive said on the publication of the charity’s annual list of the year’s costliest climate-driven disasters.
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Police brutality against students and silencing of Palestine solidarity at Freie Universität Berlin
Open letter from students and non-tenured academics
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Classroom massacre: Survivors say Israel executed innocents in Gaza school
At least seven bodies of displaced Palestinians, including women, children and babies ‘shot point-blank’ were recovered at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School.