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LGBTQ+ Ugandans face deadly threat as “Anti-Homosexuality Act” signed into law
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved an anti-LGBTQ+ law that makes the “offense of homosexuality” punishable by life imprisonment and even death.
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Train horror in India: Another crime of decaying capitalism
The deadliest train crash in India in more than a quarter of a century has killed nearly 300 passengers and injured more than 1,000. It is a tragedy that has horrified the world and exposed the criminal neglect of basic infrastructure by the ultra-right regime of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi and the capitalist governments that preceded it.
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India: Five years behind bars for five activists, neither tried nor even charged
Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice!
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Nearly one thousand Seattle Amazon workers walk off the job
On May 31, nearly one thousand Amazon workers walked off the job in Seattle to meet at the company headquarters and speak out against a range of company policies.
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Lie, cheat, and steal: The CIA’s disastrous scientific legacy
Under the leadership of noted black site torture overseer Gina Haspel, it has also adopted a tech start-up model via its new “CIA Labs,” which entices would-be innovators with lucrative patent opportunities.
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Protests in Germany after anti-fascists sent to five years in prison
Protests erupted across Germany after the Dresden regional court in Germany sentenced the anti-fascist activist Lina E. and three others for several alleged militant actions against fascists and for forming a criminal organization.
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Spy on your fellow (pro-Palestinian) students to get a scholarship
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) offers scholarships to proponents of the world’s most aggressive European settler colonial outpost. It’s a small part of a broader campaign to harass internationalist activism at Canadian universities.
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TRANSCRIPT: The roots and consequences of African underdevelopment, Walter Rodney, 1979
In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a symposium titled The Political Economy of the Black World. We are publishing, for the first time, Walter Rodney’s thoughtful presentation at this symposium.
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The character assassination of San Francisco
CNN has joined the media chorus decrying the death of San Francisco with a one-hour special.
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Canada is burning. Capitalism stoked the flames
Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.
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World Health Assembly: The world should be more like Cuba
The world is still suffering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inflation, supply chain crises, and shortages of medicines and basic goods continue to affect most of the world’s countries, especially those less developed and besieged by the major powers, such as Cuba, but this is not news.
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The twilight of freedom
Craig Murray: “Three British journalists I know personally–Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg–have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation.”
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Most propaganda looks nothing like this
The most common articles of propaganda–and by far the most consequential—are not the glaring, memorable instances that live in infamy among the critically minded.
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Weaponising anti-semitism, bringing down Corbyn
Britain’s mainstream media, its Army and the Israel lobby all combined to ensure Jeremy Corbyn did not become prime minister, a new book argues.
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Kissinger’s secret war in Cambodia reveals mass killings: Intercept
Between 1969 and 1973, the U.S. brutally bombed Cambodia, and the man behind the operation, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, bears responsibility for more devastation than previously recognized.
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‘Charging domestic terrorism is intended to make the cost of protesting too high’
CounterSpin interview with Cody Bloomfield on anti-activist terrorist charges.
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China beats U.S. in contributions to nature and science journals
The sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has increased the number of citations for Chinese research.
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The Group of Seven should finally be shut down: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2023)
During the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, near where the meeting was held.
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The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.: an interview with Justin Akers Chacón
Justin Akers Chacón, a socialist based in San Diego, California, campaigns for worker and migrant rights in the US-Mexico border region and is the author of The border crossed us: the case for opening the US-Mexico border. He caught up with Red Flag to discuss immigrant rights in the US under Democratic President Joe Biden.
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NicaNotes: The experience of Nicaragua in managing the Covid pandemic
Nicaragua, the third poorest country in Latin America, has a population of approximately 6.7 million people but has the most extensive and well-equipped public health system in Central America.