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The dark side of crowdfunding
Tech companies are leveraging the misery of Palestinian war victims for their own profit.
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UN must designate northern Gaza as disaster area, take appropriate action, and compel Israel to halt the genocide
The international community’s silence and inaction render it complicit in this brutal genocide.
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AES interrupts a $50b shakedown in the Sahel
The Alliance of Sahel States has already begun to change the conditions of the people in the region for the better. Bold actions, including the expulsion of exploitative mining contracts, put these nations in a better position to achieve and protect their national sovereignty.
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Arundhati Roy: ‘No propaganda on Earth can hide the wound that is Palestine’
The full text of her PEN Pinter Prize acceptance speech.
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How not to measure poverty
Several international organisations are now engaged in the business of measuring what they call “poverty”.
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Israeli attacks on Palestinian healthcare amount to crime against humanity, UN inquiry warns
A new UN report confirms that Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s healthcare amounts to crime of extermination, as hospitals in Palestine and Lebanon continue to face relentless attacks.
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Bayer’s “backward” claim: A bid to reap control of Indian agriculture
Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize.
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The Fortieth Anniversary of the Vaal Uprising
Forty years later, Lehlohonolo Kennedy Mahlatsi looks back on the Vaal Uprising in South Africa, which marked a turning point in the growth of mass-based organizations throughout the country and the mass rejection of apartheid colonial rule.
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What is the ‘Generals’ plan’? Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, explained
The ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza as part of the so-called “Generals’ Plan” isn’t new, but the only thing standing in its way is the will of 200,000 Palestinians to stay in the north and refuse displacement.
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Han Kang’s Nobel Prize Award is a cry for Palestine
A brilliant, powerful writer, but clearly the literary dark horse in the race, Han Kang’s unexpected award is the closest the Nobel committee could get to acknowledging the Palestinian genocide.
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Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza.
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Health and safety: Amazon fails to deliver
“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021)
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Nobel Peace Prize winner: Gaza like Japan after U.S. atomic bombs
Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization honored with the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its anti-nuclear activism, drew comparisons between the plight of children in Gaza and those impacted by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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‘We are being annihilated’: Palestinians in Gaza’s Jabalia plead for help on social media
Social media users in northern Gaza say that Israel is deliberately killing civilians in Jabalia and the situation is ‘straight out of a horror movie’
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As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course
Over the past few years, numerous West African states have taken steps toward greater economic and security sovereignty, often in opposition to Western (specifically French) designs on the region.
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A stolen life: Remembering GN Saibaba, who the State kept imprisoned over a decade
For those who knew him, GN Saibaba was a staunch human rights activist, a beloved professor and comrade, and a doting husband. He breathed his last on October 12.
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Israel uses military assassinations to legitimize civilian massacres
Since the beginning of its large-scale attack against Lebanon, the Israeli army has committed more than 20 massacres of civilians, and has attempted to legitimize and justify them under the pretext of targeting military targets or carrying out military or political assassinations.
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BAR Book Forum: George Lipsitz’s Book, “The Danger Zone is Everywhere”
George Lipsitz: The Danger Zone is Everywhere focuses on how unjust access to housing and health skews opportunities and life chances along racial lines. It argues that housing insecurity and poor health are key components of an unjust, destructive and deadly racial order. The book shows how the tort model of injury in law and the biomedical model of health work to occlude structural racism by treating socially produced injuries as personal problems.
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CIA says no evidence Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon
The comments from CIA Director William Burns come amid calls for Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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Imperialism’s striving for expansion
The further development of the centralisation of capital, leading to its consolidation, has on the one hand muted inter-imperialist rivalry, since capital now wants the entire world, not broken up into spheres of influence of rival powers, as the domain for its unrestricted movement; on the other hand it has also led to an attempt on the part of now-united imperialism to reassert its hegemony over the territories that had broken off from it earlier.