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Transnational corporations provoke a single scream of horror that runs through the vertebrae of the world: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2023)
Within the United Nations, there is a little-known debate about the status of global tax regulation.
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The Price of Water and the Ongoing Colonization of Nature: Australian Cases in Global Context
Competition over fresh, clean water supplies is leading corporations and their partners in government into situations that transform water from a useful common good to a scarce, exchangeable asset. This process of commodification and financialization is imbricated in an ongoing colonization of nature, one starkly illustrated in settler colonial contexts like Australia.
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Gas, Gaza, and Western imperialism
Control of Mediterranean gas fields is not the reason for the current attack on Gaza, but the theft of Palestine’s natural resources has long been a goal of the Zionist settler-colonial project and its Western sponsors.
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Anne and Joe argue about the child-killing murder robot
“The Child-Killing Murder Robot has a right to defend itself!”
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Running the Red Gauntlet–Russia is negotiating with the Houthis for Red Sea passage of oil cargoes defying U.S./EU sanction
Russia is negotiating with the Houthis of Yemen to protect Russian oil cargoes moving through the Red Sea for delivery to India and China, the principal destinations of Russian oil currently traversing the waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.
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The vacuity of the free trade argument
The fact that unrestricted trade creates domestic unemployment is quite obvious, and should be especially obvious to third world people who have had the historical experience of deindustrialisation during colonial rule.
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We need to act fast to stop the situation in Gaza from triggering a wider war in the Middle East
The danger signals of a wider war breaking out in the Middle East are now flashing red.
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Refaat Alareer: Literature as resistance
His efforts to open space in global literature for Palestinian writers were a contribution to the struggle against apartheid.
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The Red Sea is now the second front in the Gaza war
John Rees asks whether the Gaza war will engulf the entire Middle East.
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The suffocation of democracy in India
Attacks on the progressive Indian news outlet NewsClick coincided with the suspension of 141 opposition members of Indian parliament, both constituting serious attacks on Indian democracy.
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Blood money: The top ten politicians taking the most Israel lobby cash
As the Israeli attack on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria intensifies, the U.S. public watch on aghast. A new poll finds that Americans support a permanent ceasefire by a more than 2:1 ratio (including the vast majority of Democrats and a plurality of Republicans).
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Moves of UK and U.S. over Chagos expose true nature of ‘values-based alliance’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Thursday local time in a joint press conference that they had discussed the “vital” U.S.-UK Indian Ocean air base at Diego Garcia.
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Israel should ‘level Gaza and make it look like Auschwitz’, says official
David Azoulay, head of northern Israeli town, calls for besieged enclave to become a museum that ‘should resemble’ the extermination camp in Poland.
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‘A crazy system’: How arbitration returns abusive guards to New York prisons
Over a 12-year span, three out of every four state correctional officers fired for abuse or covering it up got their jobs back.
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World faces days of “moral decay” as Israel bulldozes hospital grounds, detains more doctors
Israel carries out unprecedented attacks against health workers and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, bulldozing hospital grounds and detaining doctors.
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Why Latin America and the Caribbean stand with Palestine: Israel viewed as U.S. proxy
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than any other region, they have expressed their solidarity with Palestine. Most recognize that the partnership between U.S. imperialism and Israeli Zionism applies not only to Palestine, but also […]
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Scholz’s low blow: Telling Orban to ‘get coffee’ during Ukraine vote
The German chancellor has taken credit for a cunning coffee break tactic, which saw the European Union voting to advance accession talks with Ukraine.
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A last day in the life of a mother from Gaza
It was the 37th morning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, when Hana, 39, woke up and started acting in an unusual manner.
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Pope condemns attacks on civilians in Gaza: ‘It is war; it is terrorism’
Pope Francis launches a heartfelt appeal for an end to the “terrorism” of war, and condemns an Israeli military attack on Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Parish, which killed two Christian women and destroyed a convent of the Missionaries of Charity.
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The list of shame. Countries supporting the genocide of Palestinians
Who voted against ceasefire in UN?