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Unions support student protestors against campus administrators and police
More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the initial arrests at Columbia University in New York on April 18. Encampments have appeared at 184 campuses worldwide.
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United States assembles the squad against China
In early April 2024, the navies of four countries—Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States—held a maritime exercise in the South China Sea. Australia’s Warramunga, Japan’s Akebono, the Philippines’ Antonio Luna, and the United States’ Mobile worked together in these waters to strengthen their joint abilities and—as they said in a joint statement—to “uphold the right to freedom of navigation and overflight and respect for maritime rights under international law.”
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Ukrainian communist Dmitri Kovalevich: Ukraine has become a private mercenary company of NATO to fight against its opponents (Interview)
According to Dmitri Kovalevich, the United States controls all decisions in Ukraine, not only military but also economic. “It is not the Ukrainian [military] command that decides where to advance, what to undermine, what to shell; Ukrainian soldiers are acting on the advice of Western instructors,” he said, referring to the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces.
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A mad world: Capitalism and the rise of mental illness
What if it’s not us who are sick, asks Rod Tweedy, but a system at odds with who we are as social beings?
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Jewish Council calls for universities to immediately halt actions against anti-war students
Deakin University and the Australian National University (ANU) have indicated they intend to dismantle the student camps. Students across the country are protesting in support of Palestinian people and against their institutions’ ties with Israel.
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Shameless
Incredibly the Israeli genocide in Gaza is now reaching new heights of violence.
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Menace on the menu: The financialisation of farmland and the war on food and farming
Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe.
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Israel: State of denial
The lies. The packs of lies–deliberate, filthy, and deadly.
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The Global South in the Arctic North: Indigenous nations struggle for sovereignty
Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”.
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‘Are you going to end the genocide, President Biden? That’s the central question’
CounterSpin interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah invasion.
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NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha to be released on bail after arrest ruled illegal
Police charged Prabir and NewsClick with colluding with foreign powers to sabotage India on the basis of a New York Times “hit piece” published in August 2023 which targeted several other anti-war organizations in the U.S. as well.
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Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia in Cuba defends peace in Palestine
Representatives of Cuban LGBTI activism and friends from other countries joined the parade calling for “All rights for all people”, organized by the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex) as part of the Cuban Days against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 3-18.
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Report sounds alarm over growing role of Big Tech in U.S. military-industrial complex
The paper’s author found that the five largest military contracts to major tech firms between 2018 and 2022 “had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined.”
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Elgar Parishad Case: After 4 years, activist-journalist Gautam Navlakha gets bail
Charges not framed yet… trial would take years and years and years for completion, observes the SC bench while lifting the stay on Bombay HC’s order granting bail in 2023.
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Harry Glasbeek on how the law keeps workers’ aspirations firmly in check
The very laws designed to safeguard rights and freedoms often act as invisible shackles.
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Why China has little reason to trust the U.S.
In the last decade xenophobic tropes intended to stoke fear and loathing of Chinese have accelerated ominously in the American mainstream media as many public officials of both parties label China as our “adversary” or even our “enemy.”
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CNN exposes horrible Israeli torture methods on Palestinian detainees
According to the whistleblowers, the beatings inflicted upon detainees were said to be done out of spite and not intended for intelligence gathering.
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Forget securitisation of the academy, we are now fully militarized
Dutch Universities are waging war on their own students and Palestine activists.
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How U.S. Big Tech supports Israel’s AI-powered genocide and apartheid
As an extension of U.S. imperial power, U.S. tech corporations are eager to support Israeli atrocities.
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“I make $3500 worth of lattes each day. I take home $144.”
Blue Bottle rakes in hundreds of billions a year.