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Daniel Ellsberg is lauded in death by the same media that lets Assange rot in jail
The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked.
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False witnesses and sinister plots
For months, mainstream media across the Western world—in particular English-language outlets based in the constituent members of the ‘Five Eyes’ global spying network—have been rabidly awash with terrifying news of secret “Chinese police stations” operating the world over.
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Why the world’s most bombed country may still suffer from these wounds after a hundred years
Laos is a country in Southeast Asia with a rich development potential based on vast water resources as well as minerals including gold.
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Discovering largest known U.S. slave auction
Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified, Jennifer Berry Hawes reports.
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Trump charges: why ‘unprecedented’?
“It is hard to overstate the gravity of the criminal indictment”, the New York Times editorial board wrote on 9 June, noting Trump’s “contempt for the rule of law”.
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Our ongoing march into dystopia and oblivion
The neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute is now floating the idea of giving nukes to Ukraine, which is about as evil and demented a foreign policy position as anyone could possibly come up with.
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Assange: An unholy masquerade of tyranny disguised as justice
Julian’s persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state.
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A trans person reflects on Cuba and Florida
Melinda Butterfield: “As I sat in Miami, I was keenly aware that Gov. Ron DeSantis was preparing to sign several laws aimed at banning trans people from public life and getting the health care they need to live.” (DeSantis did sign these laws just a few days later, not by coincidence, on May 17 – the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.)
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U.S. imperialist gangsterism and Cuba
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a Rogue State as “a nation or state regarded as breaking international law and posing a threat to the security of other nations.”
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The emergence of a new non-alignment: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter
Governments that had long been pliant to the Triad’s wishes, such as the administrations of Narendra Modi in India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Türkiye (despite the toxicity of their own regimes), are no longer as reliable.
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Writer Elizabeth Gilbert faces backlash over book with plot in Russia
Elizabeth Gilbert decides to postpone book publication after “The Snow Forest” receives backlash for being set in Russia, a decision which brings forth a different kind of backlash.
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Prison barges are part of Britain’s imperial history
In 1848 black Chartist prisoners were kept on prison hulks—in 2023 asylum-seekers are to be kept on barges. Little changes for those the state wants to want to keep out of the way, writes KEITH FLETT.
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Modern supply-side economics and the New Washington Consensus
Last month, the U.S. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, outlined the international economic policy of the U.S. administration. This was a pivotal speech, because Sullivan explained what is called the New Washington Consensus on U.S. foreign policy.
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Why there should be a treaty against the use of weaponized drones
Citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible.
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Is Washington seeking to fabricate a casus belli against Cuba?
According to the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal, which had the “honor” of putting the lie into circulation, there is an agreement between Cuba and China, in military matters, for the installation of an alleged espionage base.
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Anti-trans politicians are following the Nazi playbook
Right-wingers don’t have any answers for the issues that matter, so they’re viciously attacking a vulnerable minority.
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Colombia’s blood-soaked right must not be allowed to eject President Petro
TRADE unions marching in defence of Colombia’s first left-wing president need support, solidarity and publicity from their British counterparts.
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The hand of God in Uganda – Part 1
President Biden condemned anti-gay laws in Uganda but forgot to blame the actual guilty party.
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Julian Assange prepares for last-ditch legal appeal after UK High Court dismisses plea against extradition
As the Wikileaks founder is brought “dangerously close” to being extradited to the U.S., Assange and his family will attempt a last-ditch effort with a renewed appeal to the UK High Court.
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State repression targets the Stop Cop City movement
Cop City is an effort to ensure that state violence will bring the most draconian methods to bear against Black people. State violence is also being used proactively, in an effort to end opposition to this creation of Atlanta’s white ruling class and their errand boys and girls who ostensibly control a fake mecca for Black people.