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Africa vs Colonialism: Why does the Continent’s struggle for self-sufficiency remain so difficult?
Regional organizations are trying to overcome the legacy of their dependence on the West.
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Half a million march for Gaza in London as peace demos take a stand across Britain
The protesters spoke with one voice—“Ceasefire now!”—directing their message at the Tory government which licenced the sale of weapons from Britain now being used by Israel in the accelerating massacre.
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: U.S. director Martin Scorsese’s film about the “Reign of Terror” against the Osage Indians
The “Reign of Terror,” which lasted from the end of World War I to 1931, involved the murder of at least 60 wealthy, full-blood Osage Natives, but Grann argues that the actual total of suspicious deaths may number in the hundreds.
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Mainstream media ignores massive civil disobedience for Palestine that shut down New York’s Grand Central Station
The huge antiwar protest for Palestine at New York’s Grand Central Station was the kind of media event that the mainstream press should eagerly cover. They ignored it.
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Pro-Israel war propaganda and censorship
“I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.” Michael B. Eisen
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ACLU files brief arguing Trump gag order violates the first amendment
The order, issued in an ongoing election interference case, restricts constitutionally-protected speech. Case: United States v. Trump (Amicus Brief)
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How the International Monetary Fund continues to shrink the poorer Nations: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2023)
At Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, we continue to monitor the IMF’s impact on developing economies, including in our new dossier, How the International Monetary Fund Is Squeezing Pakistan (October 2023).
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In defiance of international calls to stop bombardment of Gaza, Israel extends airstrikes to West Bank
Israel announced it will not issue visas to UN staff after UN Secretary General António Guterres stated that the October 7 attacks by Palestinian resistance groups were not carried out “in a vacuum”.
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Israel kills Al-Jazeera correspondent’s family days after Blinken demands the channel’s coverage be ‘toned down’
Today, Al-Jazeera Bureau Chief Wael El-Dahdouh was reporting live in Gaza when an Israeli airstrike killed his wife and two children. Now, other journalists also fear their families could be targeted solely for them doing their job.
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The ONDP shivs Sarah Jama over opposition to genocide
The Ontario NDP is addicted to sucking.
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In hours of Israel/Gaza crisis coverage, a word you’ll seldom hear: ‘Ceasefire’
Since the October 7 Hamas attacks, and the subsequent, ongoing Israeli airstrikes, U.S. TV news has offered extensive coverage of Israel and Gaza.
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Latin America meets to end U.S. hostile policies that encourages migration
The humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border is growing by the day, without the United States seeking alternatives with the people of the south that would help put a stop to the illegal arrival of migrants.
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Health system in Gaza collapsing as fuel and medicine run out
The number of hospitals in Gaza shutting down operations is increasing, as Israeli attacks and limits on aid stop fuel, medicines, and supplies from reaching health workers
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A 14-year old girl terrifies the West and Ukraine–Faina Savenkova faces censorship
In the three years since she began publishing texts about her life as a child in the midst of the war in Donbass, Faina Savenkova has often met with indifference from the international and Western institutions that so extol the principles of democracy and human rights.
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Germany bans public grieving and solidarity with Palestine
Germany’s criminalization of solidarity with Palestine has taken on entirely new dimensions since October 7.
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Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn
Disinformation over the blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli hospital worked as planned, taking the focus off the victims and lifting pressure on Israel to stop its rampage.
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Big Ag is draining the Colorado River dry
The American West is facing a water crisis, compounded by climate change, a history of bad policy, and government refusal to address Big Ag head-on.
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Let them eat cement
Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war—starvation. Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.
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Israel’s unfolding crime of genocide of the Palestinian people & U.S. complicity in genocide (Emergency Legal Briefing Paper)
As President Biden visited Israel, and the Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 3,300, the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights released a legal and factual analysis of Israel’s unfolding genocide against the Palestinian people and U.S. complicity. The emergency briefing paper came on the heels of the U.S. veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning both Hamas’s attack on Israel and all violence against civilians and calling for humanitarian access to Gaza.
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How capitalism killed nutrition
Review of ‘Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’ By Chris van Tulleken.