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Life expectancy and human development in the 21st century
Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development.
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With fire and courage
Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin’s poetry in Chicana on Fire (2022) is testimonial and collective.
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Abortion foes target their next Supreme Court fight
The right is now trying to use a Rhode Island case to get the high court to create a federal abortion ban.
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Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria
By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, U.S.-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence.
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NYT scolds China for not ‘learning to live’—or die—with Covid
Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results.
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Washington is the reason why “Israel” gets away with killing Shireen Abu Akleh
The joke of a U.S. report claims that it can’t judge “Israel”, because it does not have conclusive evidence of who fired the bullet, yet somehow claims to know the intent of the one responsible, without even knowing who that is.
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The Catholic Church and Nicaragua
Recently a deluge of headlines about the Catholic Church in Nicaragua has appeared in international media–but not one of the articles has accurately explained what is happening. Below I’ll break down Nicaragua’s relationship with the Catholic Church and recent events, all links are to excellent articles for those who want to delve deeper.
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Canada supports oligarchic gangsterism in Haiti
Rosa Luxemburg popularized the dictum “Socialism or Barbarism”. Since World War I Leftists of various stripes have adopted or modified the maxim. In Haiti the struggle has been between those seeking “poverty with dignity” and oligarchic gangsterism. Unfortunately, Canada has been on the side of barbarism.
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Silencing the Lambs — How propaganda works
Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.
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‘Billions for Ukraine–we say billions for Jackson’
In 2022, in the richest country the world has ever seen, Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has no water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing a toilet, or fighting a fire. As of this moment, the situation is predicted to continue “indefinitely.”
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No room for love in Apartheid Israel
The right to intimacy serves as both a realm of domination as well as a form of resistance under Israeli settler-colonialism.
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Europe’s treatment of refugees is racist and murderous
The recent incident of refugees being stranded in the Mediterranean without assistance from coastal forces exemplifies a larger pattern of cruelty by European nations towards those fleeing conflict zones
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While U.S. leaders moralize about alleged human rights abuses in Russia and China to justify proxy wars, prisoners in the U.S. routinely suffer from inhumane treatment
A Miami Prisoner is Among Those Who Believe That U.S. Prison Authorities Are Trying to Kill Them.
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The most important election in the Americas is in Brazil
Former president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections in Brazil to be held on October 2. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will have ramifications across the globe.
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CHEAT SHEET: Health Care’s secret middleman
In just five minutes we’ll tell you what you need to know about the shadowy power of pharmacy benefit managers.
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Chile rejects a new and revolutionary Constitution: Shadows of the dictatorial past are imposed
The Chilean people demonstrated at the ballot box against the proposal of the new Constitution of Chile, with an unappealable result, according to the final official bulletin of the Electoral Service of Chile (Servel) with a 62% rejection of the constitutional project against a 38% of approval; the vote was mandatory, hence the participation has exceeded 13 million voters.
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What is the Right Wing afraid of?
A country at risk: the underlying reasons for the assassination attempt against Cristina Kirchner.
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Uvalde Vive
In tragedy’s wake, a fiery movement for justice emerges in a South Texas town that’s known an uprising before.
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Viewpoint: Confronting the nature of work
Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle
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At least 36% of mass shooters have been trained by the U.S. Military
WHERE DO AMERICA’S MASS SHOOTERS COME FROM??–It is extremely easy in the United States to obtain guns, to find places to practice using them, and to find trainers willing to teach you to use them.