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‘There is nothing green about economic growth in high-income countries’
Lancet study finds ‘green growth’ policies fall far short of what’s needed to prevent dangerous change
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The Federal Government is evolving on marijuana-but not fast enough
We shouldn’t treat cannabis like heroin. But we shouldn’t treat it like ketamine either, as a federal agency now recommends.
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Elliot Abrams was a CIA agent according to daughter of CIA-Mafia liaison
Appointment of Abrams to Public Diplomacy Commission Shows President Biden’s Close Ties to the CIA.
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How the U.S., UAE and Israel plundered Iraq’s antiquities
The U.S. invasion of Iraq paved the way for the systematic looting and destruction of countless ancient artifacts and manuscripts–with the UAE and Israel playing a significant part in the ongoing theft and global smuggling of these items.
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Brazil stopped deforestation in the Amazon, but ‘the point of no return’ is still close
In 40 years, Amazon rainforest lost an area equivalent to France; at this rate, catastrophe is imminent, say scientists.
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Othello and the War: Berlin Bulletin, September 11, 2023
The war in Ukraine, a horrific tragedy for the people of that unhappy country, fateful as well for many young Russians and potentially menacing for all the world, with burnished weapons of every size and destructive power waiting in silos or submarines for a slip, a blunder, a provocation.
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The U.S. announces 1 billion in new aid for Ukraine
Washington also provided a US$203-million funding for support to transparency and accountability of institutions.
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Cuban soldiers in the Russian army?
The “news” that Cuban troops are participating in combat actions on the Russian side in Ukraine, that comes well seasoned with melodramatic stagings, is grabbing headlines in the main counterrevolutionary media and their affinities in the world.
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Socialism and Ecological Survival
The recent article Socialism and Ecological Survival in Monthly Review by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clarke makes three essential points about the past and future of the climate movement, is well worth reading in full and poses some crucial strategic questions that we have to confront and work through in praxis.
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Left, right and centre blind to crazy car culture
Corporate and capitalist forces are driving us toward civilizational collapse but institutional myopia and crass electoralism also play their parts in the unfolding planetary tragedy.
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What if there had been no coup in Chile in 1973?: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2023)
As Chile’s people, led by the Popular Unity government, took control over their economic and political lives and worked hard to improve their social and cultural worlds, they sent a flare into the sky announcing the great possibilities of socialism.
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‘Clear as the full Moon’: The revolution will not be defeated
Who doesn’t remember when Chávez announced on national television that Maduro should be the candidate to succeed him in case he died? It was December 8, 2012, and this was the first time he talked about dying, at least in public, and the first time we wondered if our revolutionary process could really continue without him.
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Imperialism and the new Cold War
War and Lenin in the 21st century, part 4
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Prigozhin’s three strikes–Khodorkovsky business, Berozovsky politics, the last Africa trip
On March 5, in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), there was a fire-bombing of a French–owned brewery which destroyed 50,000 bottles of beer.
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Mass protests against French troops intensify in Niger as the deadline for their withdrawal approaches
France refuses to withdraw its ambassador and troops from Niger, and reiterates its threat of supporting military invasion by ECOWAS, while the regional bloc itself is “determined to bend backwards to accommodate diplomatic efforts”.
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The NDP has been co-opted by Western imperialism
Since its founding, Canada’s ‘left-wing’ party has broadly supported the U.S. empire.
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Dossier no. 68: The coup against the Third World: Chile, 1973
The relationship between Chile, the curtailment of its socialist reforms, and the ongoing processes in other countries in the region and in the Global South more generally have been systematically erased in Chile, from official historiography and media narratives alike.
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The Kit Carson obelisk: Santa Fe’s cult like worship of a genocidal human trafficker and murderer
Historical analysis and context of the Kit Carson obelisk that was once again toppled in so-called Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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No respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ rises
Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs.
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U.S. officials keep boasting about how much the Ukraine war serves U.S. interests
One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the U.S. is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve U.S. interests tremendously.