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Alex Saab is being tortured in the U.S., denounces Diplomat’s wife Camila (+Oscar López Rivera)
Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab “is suffering torture and inhumane treatment everyday in the United States,” decried his wife Camila Fabri Saab during a solidarity event for the diplomat, hosted last Friday, February 3, by the US-based human rights organization Alliance for Global Justice.
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USA CIA veteran hosting anti-China ‘Uyghur diaspora’ podcast funded by U.S. government
The “WEghur Stories” podcast claims to speak on behalf of “the Uyghur diaspora,” and uses intersectional feminist rhetoric to demonize China. But it’s co-created and hosted by an ex CIA agent, with funding from the U.S. embassy in France.
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Ballerinas on the Dole with Colleen Hooper
In this episode, we talk with Colleen Hooper (@hoopercolleen), assistant professor of dance at Point Park University. Hooper’s 2017 article in the Dance Research Journal, titled “Ballerinas on the Dole: Dance and the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA), 1974-1982,” is the subject of most of our conversation.
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Canada: The Left is nowhere on COVID. And that’s a big problem
They have failed to step into the current political climate and counter far-right protests, and get workers the income, housing and other social support they need.
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Leonard Peltier has COVID-19: Action needed to get him care
Indigenous activists and supporters held a news conference in Tampa, Florida, on Jan. 31 to announce that Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier had contracted COVID-19 in prison, endangering his life.
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How the Establishment functions
The functioning of the Establishment, the way it forms a collective view and how that view is transmitted, is a mystery to many.
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How Israel’s occupation of Palestine intensifies climate change
“Israel’s actions over the last almost 75 years demonstrate that there is very little regard for the indigenous landscape, the indigenous flora and fauna, the wildlife population, and the indigenous people.” – Zena Agha, Middle East Institute.
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Make noise about the silent crisis of global illiteracy: The Fifth Newsletter (2022)
In October 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a seminar on the pandemic and education systems.
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How SUVs came to be a massive climate problem
Or, the complex political economy of auto manufacturing.
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Can Israel stop the world from saying ‘apartheid’? Concealing the suffering in Palestine
Israel attempts to improve its public image to counter efforts by human rights organizations that reveal the nature of Israeli apartheid.
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School Privatization Week: Charles Koch Buys into National Parents Union
There’s millions of dollars sloshing around Massachusetts Parents United and National Parents Union these days. Some of it is from Charles Koch.
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Solidarity forged from slave chains
When the American Civil War ended, Lincoln and his successor Andrew Johnson gave the defeated Confederacy generous peace terms. Vengeance upon the slaveocracy was to be no part of the reconciliation process. It was to be amnesty for Southern slave-owners but new chains for the former slaves.
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Why wouldn’t Biden grant clemency to Leonard Peltier?
Last Friday, it became known that the 77-year-old Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was sick with COVID-19. Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years, which makes him the oldest political prisoner in the United States.
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U.S. media attacks China’s Covid-19 policies for saving lives, while Americans die
The New York Times claims China’s Covid-19 strategy “has set the nation up for disaster.” But here is how Beijing saved countless lives and protected its population, while more than 885,000 people in the US died.
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Spanish translations of pamphlets / manifestos published by Daraja Press and Monthly Review Press
We are delighted to announce the online Spanish translations of pamphlets/ manifestos published by Daraja Press and Monthly Review Essays. These pamphlets are parts of the series, Moving Beyond Capitalism – Now! and Thinking Freedom.
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Replacing imports to guarantee greater biotechnological sovereignty in the production of medicine
Interview with president of Cuba’s leading pharmaceutical enterprise group, BioCubaFarma, working to strengthen the country’s technological sovereignty and contribute to the population’s quality of life.
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Wikileaks’ invaluable contributions to journalism and people’s movements
The information shared by Wikileaks has strengthened the resistance against repressive governments by exposing the gaps between their actions and their carefully crafted narratives.
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The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.
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Havana Syndrome, the U.S.’s Monumental Hoax
Last week, the United States decided to recognize for the first time in five years that the phenomenon baptized as “Havana Syndrome” is nothing more than a big farce. On Thursday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) admitted that its allegations against Cuba for the so-called “health incidents” suffered by CIA officials in La Havana back in 2016 were not caused by “a deliberate attack.”
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Make the whole world know that the South also exists: The Fourth Newsletter (2022)
The political and cultural divisions that widened during the Trump years continue to inflict a heavy toll on U.S. society, including over the government’s ability to control the COVID-19 pandemic.