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Venezuela: Gov’t to launch China-backed anti-poverty program
The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country’s reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.
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A prison medical company faced lawsuits from incarcerated people
The prison giant Corizon spun off a new company, which could allow it to pay pennies on the dollar for medical malpractice and civil rights claims.
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In jail for 5 years, activist Mahesh Raut gets bail in Elgar Parishad case
The 36-year-old tribal rights activist is one of the first five persons to have been arrested in the controversial case, on June 6, 2018.
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NATO destroyed Libya in 2011; Storm Daniel came to sweep up the remains: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter
Three days before the Abu Mansur and Al Bilad dams collapsed in Wadi Derna, Libya, on the night of September 10, the poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi participated in a discussion at the Derna House of Culture about the neglect of basic infrastructure in his city. At the meeting, al-Trabelsi warned about the poor condition of the dams.
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Capitalism is a giant scam
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Caitlin Johnstone): One of the most formative moments of my life was when I was running a small eco blog called Earth Mums in the mid-00s which focused on consumer solutions to the problem of environmental destruction. Back then I still believed that while capitalism was…
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Study finds human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life
The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out vertebrate animal species hundreds of times faster than they would otherwise disappear.
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Cuban President pays tribute to Malcolm X
The Cuban President is in New York this week to attend the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly.
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Seymour Hersh publishes leaked memo undermining U.S. narrative on 2013 Syria sarin attack
Read the leaked Pentagon/DIA assessment of the chemical warfare capability of Al Qaeda in Syria, known as al-Nusra, from June 20, 2013, made public by Seymour Hersh in September 2023.
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Hear no NATO evil, see no NATO evil
To maintain public support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s proxy war with Russia, it’s important to erase its history of violence. The Canadian media’s refusal to mention NATO’s role in Libya’s instability partly reflects the requirements of Ukraine propaganda.
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Biden has relaunched Reagan’s murderous war against Nicaraguan Democracy–how many is he willing to kill to win?
When CIA-trained terrorists tried to overthrow the Sandinista government in the 1980s, the left erupted in protest. Now the left is cheering for the CIA.
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U.S. moves to curtail China’s economic investment in the Caribbean
On March 8, 2023, General Laura J. Richardson of the United States (U.S.) Southern Command gave testimony at a congressional hearing wherein she issued a warning to U.S. lawmakers about the expansion of Chinese influence in the Caribbean that were at odds with purported U.S. interests in the region.
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Dispatches from Atlanta and the Movement to Stop Cop City
Long Live Weelaunee.
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Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly, and the Rent Economy
Never before has society had the ability it does today to bring together different communities and resources in order to produce new knowledge. It is social, universal labour, and its private appropriation as intellectual property under capitalism stands in the way of liberating the enormous power of the collective to generate new knowledge and benefit people.
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Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods
There are reasons for Libya’s ‘chaotic’, ‘dysfunctional’ response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.
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The pyramid scheme that is racial capitalism
On August 26, a lone white gunman, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, fired 11 rounds from his semi-automatic weapon into the windshield of a car parked outside a Jacksonville Dollar General, killing the African American driver. Then he walked into the discount store, and fatally shot two other African Americans before turning the gun on himself.
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All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of nine crossed
For the first time, an international team of scientists is able to provide a detailed outline of planetary resilience by mapping out all nine boundary processes that define a safe operating space for humanity.
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Google spends $10 bn a year to monopolize online searching: U.S. DoJ
This accusation surfaced during the commencement of a historic trial, marking the most significant antitrust case in the U.S. in over twenty years.
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‘Standing up for trans people is self-defense for every worker’
Interview with Oct. 7 organizer.
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Announcing ‘Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire’ by Anya Parampil
After four years of frontline reporting and research, The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil unveils her forthcoming book, Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire.
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55 Pan-African organizations oppose sanctions on Niger
Following the military coup in Niger, ECOWAS decided to impose humiliating and illegitimate sanctions on Niger at the end of the Heads of State conference in Abuja on July 30.