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Dossier No. 57: The geopolitics of inequality: Discussing pathways towards a more just world
This dossier is about inequality, or inequalities, between the North and South, between the rich and poor, and between the classes that labour and those that profit.
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The U.S. signals readiness to launch nuclear strike against Russia
U.S. Navy announced that “General Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla, commander of CENTCOM, conducted a visit aboard the USS West Virginia, a U.S. Navy Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at an undisclosed location at sea in international waters in the Arabian Sea. Kurilla was joined on the USS West Virginia by Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet and NAVCENT.”
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Prof. Richard Wolff: inflation, imperialism & worker resistance
Inflation, Imperialism & Worker Resistance
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55% of humanity does not reject the accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
On October 12, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution rejecting the accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine.
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Irish MEP Clare Daly names & shames EU & America over State-sponsored terrorism in viral speech
Ireland News Today: An Irish Member of the European Parliament who previously condemned Israel as “genocidal” has said it is “laughable” that those calling for arms to Ukraine do not support arms being supplied to Palestine.
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Media narratives shield landlords from a crisis of their own making
As landlords continue their relentless pursuit of profits, and politicians allow pandemic-era eviction moratoriums to expire, the human toll of a fundamentally brutal housing system is arguably more visible than ever—particularly in America’s largest cities.
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Europe’s self destruction
Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.
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U.S. Chip War version 2: Decoupling from China or declaring war?
The U.S. has gambled big in its latest, across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap China and retain its global dominance.
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U.S. police kill twice as many people every year as we’ve been told
Most countries are far different from the U.S. when it comes to murderous police..
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The Black Alliance for Peace welcomes delayed Security Council vote on Western invasion of Haiti
October 18, 2022–One day after the Black Alliance for Peace—and other individuals and groups from Haiti and the Haitian diaspora—requested that Russia and China oppose the Biden Administration’s UN Security Council resolution providing cover for another Western invasion of Haiti, the Security Council delayed consideration of the vote.
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EU confesses ‘our prosperity was based on China & Russia’: Cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell confessed the West’s neoliberal economic model was “based on cheap energy coming from Russia,” “access to the big China market,” and low-paid Chinese workers. Europe has now lost that, and is thus in crisis.
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Ukraine war is ‘Biden’s war’ now
The most obvious explanation to the mysterious air dash of the UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace to Washington on Tuesday could be that he was canvassing for the support of the Biden Administration for his pitch to succeed Liz Truss as Britain’s next prime minister.
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The last thing Haiti needs is another military intervention: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2022)
At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’.
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Blinken falsely blames China for U.S. hostility directed at it
On Monday U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken made a curious remark: “China plans to seize Taiwan on ‘much faster timeline.”
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Of, by, and for the elite: The class character of the U.S. Constitution
In history and civics classrooms all over the United States, students are taught from an early age to revere the “Founding Fathers” for drafting a document that is the bulwark of democracy and freedom—the U.S. Constitution.
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Environmental racism is poisoning the waters in the U.S.
Thousands of people in U.S. cities have been left without access to clean water. Communities say institutional racism is to blame.
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Israel experiments on Palestinians with AI-powered gun at checkpoints
The Israeli military installed an automatic weapon at a heavily-trafficked checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil in September.
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Cheng Enfu: The new pattern of international economy and politics is conducive to the development of world socialism
In September 2021, I spoke at the launch meeting of the Manifesto: Through Pluripolarity to Socialism. The Manifesto has a clear theme, profound ideas, magnificent momentum, and clearly articulated the history of world socialism, its present status quo and future.
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In neocolonial rant, EU says Europe is ‘garden’ superior to rest of world’s barbaric ‘jungle’
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell showed the West’s neocolonial mentality claiming “the world needs Europe” as a “beacon” and beautiful “garden” to civilize the barbarous “jungle” in the Global South. He also called for regime change to create a “post-Putin Russia.”
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We’re being pushed toward nuclear war on a fiction: notes from the Edge of The Narrative Matrix
We’re being driven toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who’s just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and won’t stop invading and conquering until he’s stopped by force.