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‘This is an extermination’: Israel’s assault on north Gaza’s last functioning hospital
Israel is emptying northern Gaza of its inhabitants during its ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. One of the key strategies it is using to achieve this is by hospitals, and the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia has become a primary target.
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Dossier no. 81: The Twentieth Century, the Global South, and China’s historical position
Chinese scholar Wang Hui looks back at the twentieth century, which was born out of the multiple revolutions in the peripheral areas of the world, including China.
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In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states
An increasingly assertive group of African nations are constraining the ability of Canadian companies to profit from resources.
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BRICS plans ‘multi-currency system’ to challenge U.S. dollar dominance: Understanding Russia’s proposal
The BRICS Cross-Border Payment Initiative (BCBPI) will use national currencies, instead of the U.S. dollar. Russia’s finance ministry and central bank released a report detailing plans to transform the international monetary and financial system.
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Free speech, journalism and democracy in a time of genocide
Last month in New York at separate forums, two senior Democrat figures–John Kerry and Hillary Clinton–pointed to what they saw as major problems: the First Amendment was ‘an obstacle to building consensus’, and the ‘narrative’ in the press needs to be (even more) ‘consistent’.
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34 million seniors in Medicare Advantage plans face rude awakening
October 15 marks the first day of open enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans–a time that will deliver chaos and confusion for many of the 34 million seniors who depend on these plans to pay their healthcare bills.
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How do you resist neo-fascism?
Conceptual clarity and shrewd maneuvers are necessary to combat neo-fascism, a powerful social movement from above.
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U.S. is spending $28 billion on Sinophobic propaganda to colonise your brain
Whoever owns the narrative owns the world–and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as U.S. influence campaigns–or “perception management”.
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California law mandates that public school children be taught about State’s genocide of Indigenous Peoples
From the time the Europeans arrived on American shores, the U.S. government authorized more than 1,500 wars and attacks on Indigenous people and at the conclusion of the “Indian wars” in the late 19th century, of the estimated 10 million to 15 million native peoples, fewer than 238,000 remained.
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The struggle for University divestment in the age of finance capital
The boundaries that separate higher education from “the rest” of the capitalist economy have eroded, imperfectly and unevenly but to a sufficient extent that the systemic force of financial markets dictates investment decisions and makes universities hard to distinguish from banks.
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Who will they add next to Canada’s ‘terror’ list?
Banning Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network highlights the anti-Palestinian character of Canada’s terrorist list.
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Cuba faces nation-wide blackout, activists renew calls for an end to the blockade
The inclusion of Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list has severely limited the island nation from accessing funds and the international market.
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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.