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‘Apartheid’ is not sufficient: an interview with UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari
UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari explains why Apartheid is not enough to explain the root causes of the Palestinian crisis.
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China is issuing the same “Red Line” warnings about Taiwan that Russia issued about Ukraine
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued to pour gasoline on the foreign policy dumpster fire that is her planned visit to Taiwan next month, now reportedly encouraging other members of congress to come along for the ride.
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An interview with John Pilger: “Assange is the courageous embodiment of a struggle against the most oppressive forces in our world”
Last month, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange’s extradition to the U.S., where he faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act for publishing true information exposing American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Argentina’s Evita: an indispensable legacy
It is seventy years since the death of Evita, an extraordinary character in Argentine and Latin American history. Owner of a penetrating and mobilizing oratory, she was a proudly plebeian popular leader whose class instinct defined the most advanced and contesting features of Peronism.
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All that I ask is that you fight for peace today: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2022)
Gas shipments through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which runs from Russia to Germany, were reduced to 40% of capacity in June, a cut that Moscow said was due to delays in the servicing of a turbine by the German firm Siemens.
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U.S. political prisoner Mutulu Shakur has six months to live. Will courts finally grant compassionate release?
Renowned revolutionary leader and health worker Mutulu Shakur has spent over three decades in prison. As his cancer worsens, activists are demanding his release.
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What’s behind the escalating attacks on trans people?
Thirty-one members of the white supremacist Patriot Front from across the U.S. were detained after preparing an assault on a Pride festival in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, June 12.
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Canada’s Development Finance Institution and land grabbing in Africa
This interview is part of a series with the Blended Finance Project a group of unions, non-governmental organizations and academics who are concerned about the Canadian government’s embrace of what is called “blended finance.”
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Police departments spend vast sums of money creating “Copaganda”
U.S. police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what public safety means, what threatens it, and how to solve it.
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Israeli Supreme Court rules citizens can be stripped of status for ‘breach of loyalty’
Rights groups expect the law to be used disproportionately against Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 20% of the state’s population.
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The PAIGC’s political education for liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74
The liberation struggle against colonialism, if it is to be a total liberation struggle, is not only for the political conquest of territory (‘flag independence’); it is a struggle to liberate the people from the tentacles of colonialism.
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Former CIA chief admits to U.S. meddling in foreign elections
Former CIA director James Woolsey has admitted that the U.S. “interferes” in elections in other countries to protect its interests.
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With eye on the CIA, Moscow cracks the whip at Israel
The Jewish Agency is Israel’s life source and the Kremlin shut it down this month. The fallout may be a measurable schism between Moscow and Tel Aviv, in which the latter has a lot to lose.
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Africa taken for ‘neo-colonial’ ride
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Like so many others, Africans have long been misled. Alleged progress under imperialism has long been used to legitimize exploitation. Meanwhile, Western colonial powers have been replaced by neo-colonial governments and international institutions serving their interests.
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Economics for the Anthropocene
Ubiquitous, and worsening, environmental instability means we will have to throw out the anthropocentrism of economics.
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Biology at another crossroads
Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin’s publication of The Dialectical Biologist in 1985 provided a gestalt moment which remains just as valid and applicable decades after the book’s publication, if not even more so.
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Amazon joins the Medicare privatization spree
The retail behemoth has acquired One Medical, which is in the Medicare privatization business.
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Puerto Ricans demand cancellation of contract with Canadian-American energy company LUMA
Protesters have condemned that power outages have increased, while prices have gone up since LUMA began operating Puerto Rico’s electricity transmission and distribution system in June 2020.
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How corrupt is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?
Before the Russian invasion, CIA reports linked him to an oligarch so dirty and so mired in “significant corruption” that the State Department banned him from entering the U.S. But now CIA propaganda portrays Zelensky as nobler than Winston Churchill and saintlier than Mother Theresa. Will the Real Volodymyr Zelensky Please Stand Up.
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It is dark, but I sing because the morning will come: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2022)
In the chilly Brazilian winter of 2019, Renata Porto Bugni (deputy director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research), André Cardoso (coordinator of our office in Brazil), and I went to the Lula Livre (‘Free Lula’) camp in Curitiba, set up just across the road from the penitentiary where former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sat in a 15-square metre cell.