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Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]
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Ukraine: Touring an Aidar Dungeon
Shortly after the U.S.-backed Maidan coup in the winter of 2014, in conjunction with Crimea’s secession from Ukraine and union with Russia in March of that year, protests began to break out in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the east of the country, known together as Donbas.
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Three steps to Black liberation
If history should be any teacher, it has taught us this: the state has no interest in serving the needs of the masses of Black people in this country, who are poor and working class.
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Carrot and stick: U.S. pressure and extortion to break Latin America’s ties with Russia and China
In the last two weeks, the State Department has deployed an ambitious blackmailing persuasion program on countries located in the so-called “Western Hemisphere”, with the aim of limiting their trade and cooperation ties with Moscow and Beijing.
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Corine Pelluchon, “Das Zeitalter des Lebendigen. Eine neue Philosophie der Aufklärung” [“The Age of the Living. A new philosophy of the Enlightenment”]
Lucidly argued and touching in its appeal, Corine Pelluchon’s latest book ‘Les Lumières à l’âge du vivant’ will be a theoretical source both for ‘green’ and ‘red’ movements alike.
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With clenched fists, they spend money on weapons as the Planet burns: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2022)
Two important reports were released last month, neither getting the kind of attention they deserve. On 4 April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group III report was published, evoking a strong reaction from the United Nations’ Secretary General António Guterres.
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Solomon Islands PM warns of invasion by Australia and U.S.
Responding to a series of threats of intervention by the U.S. and Australia, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare warned on Tuesday that his small Pacific islands country was in danger of invasion by the allied powers.
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Donziger: A tale for our times
Texaco operations in Ecuador from 1962 to 1994 dumped 70 billion litres of “wastewater”, heavily contaminated with oil and other chemicals, into the Amazon rainforest, plus over 650,000 barrels of crude oil. They polluted over 800,000 hectares.
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Fall-out of the Ukraine conflict on India’s economy
The Problem Is Actually At Home
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The poor people’s campaign and the moral dilemma of liberalism
The demands for justice at home and abroad must not be sacrificed on the altar of what is called pragmatism. The false choices presented by liberalism can undermine the movement altogether.
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Supreme Court’s draft opinion on abortion sends jolt through U.S.
If the justices do not uphold the “Roe v. Wade Decision,” abortion would immediately become illegal in 13 states, while Republican-led states are already moving to enact restrictive laws.
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PayPal blocks multiple alternative media figures critical of U.S. empire narratives
In what appears to be yet another escalation in Silicon Valley’s redoubled efforts to quash dissident voices since the beginning of the Ukraine war, PayPal has just blocked the accounts of multiple alternative media voices who’ve been speaking critically against official U.S. empire narratives.
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Indonesia, not the EU, needs to make its palm oil sustainable
Importers must step up support for sustainable palm oil, and producers be bold in revoking the licences of illegal palm estates, writes Andre Barahamin.
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This is the real face of the Ukraine war – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on imperialism, democracy and porn in parliament.
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Ukrainian strike on Donetsk Market was a terrorist act
When artillery hit a busy public space in Donetsk, it brought flashbacks of attacks in Gaza and Syria.
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Cost of the Ukraine War felt in Africa, Global South
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions around the world. Even when these repercussions are discussed, disproportionate coverage is allocated to European countries, like Germany and Austria, due to their heavy reliance on Russian energy sources.
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Political education for all
Political education is absent from our current system. The left should be providing alternative means of obtaining it, writes Shamime Ibrahim.
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U.S. gov’t creates ‘Ministry of Truth’ run by cold warrior who smears independent media as ‘Russian disinformation’
The authoritarian Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversaw the War on Terror created a “Disinformation Governance Board,” led by anti-Russia information warrior Nina Jankowicz, who ran regime-change ops at a CIA front, smears independent anti-war U.S. media outlets as “Russian disinfo,” and called WikiLeaks “scum.”
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Why China stands firm on dynamic zero-COVID policy
In a country of some 1.4 billion people, any public health issue is of significant concern, and the coronavirus outbreak is no exception.
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Labor organizing in the U.S. in 2022: the anti-worker, anti-union corporate agenda
Late capitalism has exposed the drastic inequalities inherent to our neoliberal economy.