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LETTER FROM FAINA SAVENKOVA TO OLIVER STONE
My name is Faina Savenkova and I am 13 years old.
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Patrick Lawrence: So far as I can make out
Patrick Lawrence explores how the truth about Ukraine has turned into a recipe for anger and contempt from the Western media.
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Israel’s friends struggle to justify unprovoked attack that killed 17 children
Israel’s supporters are crowing that the Gaza attack was successful, but these advocates have blinded themselves to the moral dimension of such awful force.
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New film documents life of anti-war writer
Vonnegut, like the novel’s Billy Pilgrim, witnessed the effects of the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II—a massacre and a war crime. In the novel, Pilgrim mentally flees the terrible memories by fantasising about extraterrestrial time travel, but can’t stop his mind from straying back to the trauma.
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Roger Waters refutes U.S. war propaganda in CNN interview and World Beyond War webinar
On Saturday and Monday, English-born musician-composer and activist Roger Waters denounced the role of the US government in the war between Russia and Ukraine and discussed other contemporary political issues in two public appearances.
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CBS wanted to do critical reporting on Ukraine’s government but Ukraine’s government said no
Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines.
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Can we please have an adult conversation about China?
As the U.S. legislative leader Nancy Pelosi swept into Taipei, people around the world held their breath.
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Israel heads further right: 30-40 percent of young support fascistic Jewish party
The Gaza attack has heightened Israel’s right-wing political tilt as it approaches its next election.
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Russians welcomed as liberators in many Eastern Ukrainian cities contrary to western media depictions
People of liberated territories likely to vote in favor of joining Russia in forthcoming referenda—just like Crimeans did in 2014.
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Palestinian workers forced off Israeli bus to make way for Jewish passengers
A man pretending to be a transport ministry official manipulated the driver into removing around 50 Palestinian workers from the bus.
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U.S. gov’t is world’s worst violator of freedom of press, not its protector
From the persecution and torture of journalist Julian Assange to mass censorship of independent media outlets by U.S. government contractors in Silicon Valley, Washington’s attacks on freedom of the press hurt every country and person on Earth.
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Walter Rodney: A people’s professor
Rodney’s most recent, posthumously-published text, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World, offers an important perspective on the time period in which it was written and the internal position of the author. Rodney’s family worked with Robin Kelley in taking Walter’s extensive lecture notes on the Russian revolutionary era and forming them into a complete manuscript.
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Unleashing the fight for reproductive justice
In an outrageous act of judicial activism that disregarded both judicial precedent and popular opinion, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional protection of abortion as a national right.
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The UK economy is crushed – Analysts
According to the head of macro analysis at Saxo Bank, the only thing holding back the UK economy from turning into an emerging economy country, given the inflation and political instability, is the lack of a currency crisis.
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U.S. monetary tightening creates stagflation in other Countries
— The stagflation outside of the United States will be very serious as capital flight to safety causes severe debt and foreign exchange crises in many parts of the world and developing countries face imported inflation due to the strong U.S. dollar, said economist Jayati Ghosh.
— The U.S. dollar hegemony, which has been so crucial in the United States’ own economic expansion, is going to become much more fragile in the future. There’s no question that an increasing number of countries and central banks “are going to think of alternative ways of keeping their reserves and it’s obvious it’s the logical thing to do,” she said.
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South Africa is on a knife edge as xenophobia escalates
With no national force with the vision and power to offer an emancipatory alternative to politics that turns neighbors against each other, the country is on a knife edge.
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Nancy Pelosi, White Supremacy, and China
White supremacist arrogance was the order of the day when Nancy Pelosi ignored a red line set by the Chinese government and visited Taiwan. The Speaker of the House showed stereotypical and racist attitudes towards that country and began a chain of events that won’t go well for the U.S.
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The United States has many political prisoners. Here’s a list
The U.S. government has many political prisoners, including journalists; national security state whistleblowers; Black, Indigenous, and Latino revolutionaries; foreign diplomats; Muslims detained without trial; women who defended themselves from attacks; and environmental activists.
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The new imperialism’s strange bedfellows
Africa’s political liberation and economic emancipation can’t be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity.
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Remembering one of humanity’s worst catastrophe’s—seventy seven years on
President Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki set the groundwork for an era of U.S. global hegemony and enriched corporations like General Electric, DuPont, Union Carbide, Bechtel and Westinghouse which made hundreds of billions of dollars developing generation after generation of “first-strike” nuclear weapons. U.S. leaders, intent on provoking wars with China and/or Russia, appear willing to use these weapons again—if we don’t stop them.