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Riyadh phones Tel Aviv: From petro-power to palace panic
For decades, the Saudi state cultivated the mythology of sovereignty while constructing one of the most elaborate systems of strategic dependency in modern history.
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Thousands successfully confront Carney’s capitalists
“Capitalism can’t be fixed, billionaires shouldn’t exist” was among the chants taken up by more than 2,000 protesters who marched on Mark Carney’s CEO Summit Monday night.
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Venezuela’s Asymmetric Negotiation with the United States: A Conversation with William Castillo
“Many look at this too much from outside, from the Global North, without really trying to understand our reasoning, what’s actually at stake for Venezuela, and why Venezuela is doing what it’s doing.”
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Trump EPA to strip greenhouse gas limits for power plants, a key Biden climate policy
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will revoke limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that run on coal and natural gas, according to regulatory documents Administrator Lee Zeldin signed Monday.
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NAZA: How a film became an ‘eighth front’ shaking ‘Israel’ from within
Built on testimonies from Israeli military personnel, NAZA has triggered a political and security uproar over how Gaza’s war was conducted.
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Macklemore’s tour cancellation shows why celebrities don’t criticize Israel
American oligarchs kicking an artist off a tour for supporting Palestine is a very in-your-face illustration of why mainstream culture is so vapid and fake these days.
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Canada’s role in the disastrous ‘War on Terror’ should not be celebrated
The wrong lessons from the war in Afghanistan.
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USA votes against entire world, opposing equal representation of Africa, as it pushes to revive colonialism
The U.S. was the only country to oppose a UN resolution replacing a colonial world map from year 1569, which misrepresents Africa’s size. This is part of the Trump admin’s overt attempt to revive colonialism.
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Norman Finkelstein’s latest book indicts those ‘in high places’ for genocide in Gaza
A review of Norman Finkelstein’s ‘Gaza’s Gravediggers,’ which indicts not Israel’s military, but the global officials and institutions, such as the UN, the ICJ, and the media, who enabled and legitimized the genocide.
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International trade theory not developmental
Most free trade advocates falsely claim comparative advantage ensures developmental gains for all from trade liberalisation. But even mainstream theory doesn’t promise partial liberalisation is better.
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Big firms spent at least $1.7B on union-busting last year
The nation’s corporations spent $1.7 billion on union-busters last year—and that figure actually is an understatement.
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Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.
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‘This counter-terrorism framework situates people outside of rights’
CounterSpin interview with Samer Araabi on dissent as ‘terrorism’
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War On Iran: Ansar Allah goes on the offensive
Bombing Ansar Allah has been tried for years with little results. The Saudis do not have the manpower for an invasion.
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Apropos GDP estimates
The first GDP estimate for India was made by Dadabhai Naoroji for the year 1867-68, though his estimate was extremely rough.
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‘Failure of epic proportions’: Yemen’s lightning assault fractures Saudi-led coalition
Sources told U.S. media that the Ansarallah-led Yemeni army’s opponents, already weakened in recent days, faced ‘waves and waves’ of Sanaa’s forces in the latest battle.
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Historicising enshittification
Lineages of the bad internet
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Why Pentagon is the central axis of the U.S.-Venezuela oil deal
According to the fact sheet published by the White House on August 31, the Office of Strategic Capital of the Pentagon (renamed the Department of War) will own 35% of the shares of the company North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), selected by the Trump administration to lead oil extraction projects in Venezuelan fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels.
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How Minnesota Unions and community groups stood up to an ICE occupation
Trump’s Operation Metro Surge was a direct attack on our union.
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As criticism grows over landslide inaction, leaks show Nepal’s new leaders groomed by U.S. regime change outfit
As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the U.S. government.
