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The elephant in the room: geopolitics and the ‘Great Reset’ in Sri Lanka
“But to watch cricket, there has to be a country left for us to watch it in, no?” A fan at the Galle Test Match that ended with an innings victory for Sri Lanka. July 11, 2022
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U.S. plans to send NATO-made jets to Ukraine to fight against Russia
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, told the newspaper that “discussions are ongoing” to send the fighters to Ukraine.
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Lavrov – extended range weapons In Ukraine will lead to more loss of its land
Today the foreign minister of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov, announced the extension of the land in Ukraine that Russia intends to capture.
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Amazon joins the Medicare privatization spree
The retail behemoth has acquired One Medical, which is in the Medicare privatization business.
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Puerto Ricans demand cancellation of contract with Canadian-American energy company LUMA
Protesters have condemned that power outages have increased, while prices have gone up since LUMA began operating Puerto Rico’s electricity transmission and distribution system in June 2020.
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How corrupt is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?
Before the Russian invasion, CIA reports linked him to an oligarch so dirty and so mired in “significant corruption” that the State Department banned him from entering the U.S. But now CIA propaganda portrays Zelensky as nobler than Winston Churchill and saintlier than Mother Theresa. Will the Real Volodymyr Zelensky Please Stand Up.
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It is dark, but I sing because the morning will come: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2022)
In the chilly Brazilian winter of 2019, Renata Porto Bugni (deputy director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research), André Cardoso (coordinator of our office in Brazil), and I went to the Lula Livre (‘Free Lula’) camp in Curitiba, set up just across the road from the penitentiary where former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sat in a 15-square metre cell.
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$2 Trillion for War Versus $100 Billion to Save the Planet.
The West seems more fixated on spending social wealth on the military rather than addressing the climate catastrophe.
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Why we need to (re)nationalize Air Canada
It’s because of decades of public investment that the company, and our national airports system, exist in the first place.
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Everything you‘ve always wanted to know about: ‘good’ wars, ‘good’ war criminals, ‘good’ dictators, ‘good’ separatists, ‘good’ oligarchs, ‘good’ money launderers—and their antitheses!
When Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s president, invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, he was a “good” dictator. His invasion of the neighboring country was not only approved by the United States and its Western satellites, but also universally supported by them. Unlike secular Iraq, Iran was led by so-called vicious Islamic clerics.
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The Tories fiddle while the planet burns, but protest is growing – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on unfolding economic and environmental crises, and how we should respond.
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Pelosi could spark ‘more serious’ Taiwan Straits crisis; China-U.S. ties would fall off cliff if Washington intended to crash ‘guardrails’
China-U.S. ties would fall off cliff if Washington intended to crash ‘guardrails’.
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White man’s media: legacy media in the U.S. and UK frames and conditions our thinking and actions
Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the media. That colonial media mind set in turn promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’.
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Russia teaches Europe ABC of gas trade
The unthinkable is happening for the second time in five months: Russian gas giant Gazprom writes to German gas companies announcing force majeure effective from June 14, exonerating it from any compensation for shortfalls since then.
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Russia’s campaign in Ukraine: Nearing an inflection point?
Notice how the amount of Western reporting on Ukraine has fallen off dramatically? That’s because the war is going well for Russia and its allies.
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Kononovich brothers thank supporters as trial resumes in Ukraine
Jailed communist Mikhail Kononovich thanked supporters who have protested in solidarity with Ukrainian political prisoners as the trial of him and his brother Alexander resumed on Monday.
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Dollar decline to make Americans poorer, economist Hudson says
Dollar hegemony is the system where U.S. overseas military spending and other spending deficits result in U.S. dollar savings in foreign countries.
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This proxy war has no exit strategy
The International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America has released a statement opposing the U.S. government’s ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, saying the billions being funneled into the military-industrial complex “at a time when ordinary Americans are struggling to pay for housing, groceries, and fuel” is “a slap in the face for working people.”
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Class struggle inside Ukraine
Two recent articles in Open Democracy report responses from Ukrainian trade unions to the “Lugano Declaration”, which came out of a conference between high Western and Ukrainian officials in Switzerland last week and sets out plans for economic reconstruction “after the war is over” by the Ukrainian Oligarchy* and its major imperial sponsors; the U.S., UK and EU.
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Upheaval in the San Francisco DA’s office after Brooke Jenkins appointment
Prosecutors worried that Jenkins was too close to the mayor and planned to bring back the war on drugs. Many were just fired.