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Environmental racism is poisoning the waters in the U.S.
Thousands of people in U.S. cities have been left without access to clean water. Communities say institutional racism is to blame.
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Israel lobby fabricates anti-Semitism crisis at Berkeley
In a crisis manufactured by Israel lobby groups and right-wing media, law students at the University of California at Berkeley are being accused of anti-Jewish bigotry because of their public pledge not to host speakers who support Israeli apartheid.
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Cheng Enfu: The new pattern of international economy and politics is conducive to the development of world socialism
In September 2021, I spoke at the launch meeting of the Manifesto: Through Pluripolarity to Socialism. The Manifesto has a clear theme, profound ideas, magnificent momentum, and clearly articulated the history of world socialism, its present status quo and future.
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Statements from Alabama prisoners as strike enters third week
Prisoners issue statements, as Alabama prison strike enters third week and the state continues to try and break the struggle.
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System change, class war, and the WW2 economic conversion experience
The climate crisis has driven our planet into uncharted territory. We are close to breaching critical environmental thresholds, setting in motion destabilizing changes to our global climate system that could well make the earth unlivable for humans and countless other species.
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Israel’s detention of Palestinian minors: a horror show
In tracking Israel’s arrest of Palestinian children, from the moment these (often) young teens are seized from their homes to the moment they arrive at an interrogation facility, Ha Moked registers a consistent pattern.
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Biden frees all marijuana prisoners–except not at all
Joe Biden just pardoned everyone arrested for marijuana possession! Right?
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When will the stars shine again in Burkina Faso?: The Forty-First Newsletter (2022)
On 30 September 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traoré led a section of the Burkina Faso military to depose Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had seized power in a coup d’état in January.
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Cuba in the eye of Washington’s hurricane
Since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, the United States has been at odds with the island’s independent path.
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Double standards on full display with Western Sahara occupation
Numerous countries, including Canada, profit from the illegal exploitation of Sahrawi resources.
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To argue with the King of Growth
Every culture has its myth. Ours is the myth of growth, whereby we perceive the accumulation of material and financial wealth as a proxy for social progress and human well-being. The example of Washington state illustrates how modern society struggles to abandon the illusion of limitless expansion, even when it tries to do right by its citizens.
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Health insurers get government cash, then jack up prices
Despite the Affordable Care Act’s promises, publicly subsidized insurers are jacking up prices while Americans lose coverage.
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Biden Administration wants kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “suffer like Julian Assange,” according to UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur
New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela.
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Biden’s broken promise to avoid war with Russia may kill us all
It is widely acknowledged that U.S. and NATO officers are now fully involved in Ukraine’s operational war planning, aided by a broad range of U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis to exploit Russia’s military vulnerabilities, while Ukrainian forces are armed with U.S. and NATO weapons and trained up to the standards of other NATO countries.
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U.S. rejection of Moscow’s offer for peace talks is utterly inexcusable
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow was open to talks with the the U.S. or with Turkey on ending the war in Ukraine, claiming that U.S. officials are lying when they say Russia has been refusing peace talks.
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The main losers of 1979, the creators of the new revolution in Iran
Recently in Iran’s largest city, Tehran, Mahsa Amini, a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested by Iran’s “morality police” for allegedly wearing her government-mandated hijab inappropriately. She was beaten, and three days later, she died.
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Thomas Sankara remains a global icon
His vision of a socialist, pan-Africanist model of development was not buried with him
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Thousands gather for human chain around parliament against extradition of Julian Assange
THOUSANDS of campaigners joined MPs over the weekend to form a human chain around Parliament and protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange THOUSANDS of campaigners joined MPs over the weekend to form a human chain around Parliament and protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Sins of silence
The media’s treatment of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage is reminiscent of a time in the 60s when disaster could have been avoided with responsible reporting.
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What you don’t have and why
The Never-Ending Impact of a Forgotten Blitzkrieg Against the American Left