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Dossier no. 53: This land is the land of our ancestors
The labour relations on South African farms continue to maintain race, gender, and class inequalities as a central character of work and life.
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U.S. govt’s Summit of the Americas fails: Boycott by presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala
As the U.S. government’s Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
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Ralph Gonsalves: “Latin-Caribbean integration is necessary, but it has been discontinuous”
The small island countries of CARICOM have given a demonstration of dignity and sovereignty, maintaining firm positions on the U.S. interference policy against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
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U.S. COVID response: War and profiteering remains the priority
The death toll in the U.S. due to COVID-19 has crossed 1 million. The richest country in the world has stumbled in controlling the pandemic and the poorest have suffered the most.
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Two French journalists under Ukrainian artillery fire for five hours
Yesterday 4 June, Christelle and I were waiting for confirmation of a mission to the front line, with the intention of going to the scene of the shelling of civilians by Ukrainian artillery.
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Connecting the dots between Roe v. Wade, sex workers and bodily autonomy
The same people who criminalize sex work, criminalize other “serious offences” against sexual norms such as medical treatment for trans people and access to abortion.
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NYPD and far-Right forces collude in physical assault on a socialist and anti-racist space
Since our founding in 2018, our space, The People’s Forum (TPF) has been the target of multiple attacks by the far-right on both social media and in our location. We have managed to defend our space which operates on values and principles of social justice and people power.
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Food, famine and war
If anything proves that famine and food insecurity are man-made rather than due to vagaries of nature and the weather, it is the current food crisis that is putting millions globally close to starvation.
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U.S. threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with Illegal “Legal Designation of Genocide”
The U.S. is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false and the US has no right to make such a claim on its own. Ann Garrison continues reporting from the region.
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Supreme Court deals blow to prisoners seeking to overturn wrongful convictions
The decision will leave thousands of people barred from challenging their sentences in federal court in situations where they have exonerating evidence that their lawyers failed to submit at trial.
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Marcos Jr. Presidency: A long view
For three decades, contemporary public discourse on the Philippines has been marked by reference to a period called the “post-Marcos era.” Weeks after a high-stakes national election, that widely-accepted historical marker is suddenly obsolete.
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Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic of rifles (for Uvalde and other schools…)
for Uvalde and other schools…
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Africa, the collateral victim of a distant conflict: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2022)
Debt hangs over the African continent like a wake of vultures. Most African countries have interest bills that are much higher than their national revenues, with budgets managed through austerity and driven by deep cuts in government employment as well as the education and health care sectors.
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How China strengthened food security and fought poverty with state-funded cooperatives
The world faces a food crisis due to war, sanctions, and inflation. China has shown how to strengthen food sovereignty, while fighting poverty, with state-funded agricultural cooperatives, government crackdown on waste, and investment in technology.
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Nursing home CEO’s don’t want to follow the law; seek Judge’s help in ducking minimum staffing requirements
Less than two months after New York’s minimum-staffing requirements for nursing homes went into effect, a trade group has demanded that state courts block them.
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Cuba’s non-alignment: A foreign policy of peace and socialism
In Cuba, ‘non-alignment’ has never meant being neutral, and has always meant being opposed to attempts to divide humanity, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
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Mass shootings, Empire, and racist, copaganda dog whistles
Two mass shootings in quick succession brought out the worst in Americans. The anger and grief were followed by the usual lies and pretense that violence here is somehow mysterious. Political leaders advocate state violence all the time, calling for new victims to be created here and around the world.
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Mali ejects the French military
In the first two weeks of May 2022, the Malian military government ejected the French military and withdrew from the French political project, G5 Sahel. Deep resentment spread across Mali because of the civilian casualties from French military attacks and because of the French government’s arrogant attitude towards the Malian government.
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The Oligarchs play their cards–that’s the loyalty card, the get out of jail free card, the rewards redemption card
The Russian regime-change theory motivating U.S. sanctions against the Russian oligarchs is that they will trigger a palace coup in which the oligarchs will arrange a bullet for President Vladimir Putin’s head, and in return the U.S. will give them back the keys to their yachts, mansions, and offshore bank accounts.
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The U.S. baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
The baby formula crisis that is threatening the lives of infants across the U.S. deepened this week as the out-of-stock rate for baby formula on store shelves surged to 70 percent for the week ending May 22. The shortage rate during the previous week was 45 percent, according to the retail tracking firm Datasembly.