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What is happening in Turkey?
Despite the announcements from the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that “everything is under control”, Turkey is experiencing one of the deepest crises in recent years. A conversation with Hasan Durkal.
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A guide for the U.S. antiwar movement
Six Principles for an Increasingly Authoritarian Age.
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World mobilises against the U.S. on Cuba–including China
Cuba is a small country. But because it became in 1959 the first country in the Western hemisphere to thoroughly break with U.S. domination, and embark on a path of national independence, events concerning Cuba have a geopolitical significance many times greater than its size. Present events show that this continues to be the case.
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Forced evictions near and far: Canada’s complicity in the dispossession of Palestinian homes
Does our commitment to reconciliation mean anything while we support settler-colonial regimes abroad?
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The nonbinary Chinese fighting to live their truth
Activist Chao Xiaomi is inspiring transgender Chinese to reject the gender binary. But the community continues to face deep-seated discrimination.
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U..S suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost
Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.
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North Dakota gets fracked
When the big shutdown finally takes hold in the Bakken, the frackers will have gone and most wells abandoned, and people in the region will still have to deal with the illegal trash dumps, polluted streams, health problems, and other unfortunate effects of the boom.
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Once again, the vultures circle Haiti
Joe Biden’s response to the earthquake was to put war hawk Samantha Power, who now heads USAID, in charge of U.S. relief efforts in Haiti.
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A monster pandemic
According to this conceptual genealogy sketched by literary theorist Justin Clemens, two important homophonic variants of “Pandemick” emerged in the aftermath of the English Civil Wars.
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Latin American socialism and the fight against COVID-19: Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua
Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua all demonstrate what a society can do when it embraces a centralized system, people over profit, and solidarity. Not only are citizens protected, but the will to fight against threats like COVID-19 is all the stronger when nations are united behind a popular and radical project.
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Fish flown in after Yukon salmon plummet
It’s devastating. It’s scary. Because we don’t know what’s going on with this fish.’ – JOAQLIN ESTUS
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Privatised health services worsen pandemic
Decades of public health cuts have quietly taken a huge human toll, now even more pronounced with the pandemic. Austerity programmes, by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, have forced countries to cut public spending, including health provisioning.
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More heat this weekend–more inequities of keeping cool
This summer, dangerous heat seems like it’s not letting up.
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Walter Scott and the historical novel
On his 250th anniversary, Jenny Farrell writes about Walter Scott and his historical novels, uncovering themes of class conflict, ethnic and nationalist struggles, and how the personal experiences of his characters link with broader historical upheavals.
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Cedric J. Robinson
Cedric J. Robinson was a political scientist, a scholar, a radical theorist, but more importantly, an activist and political organiser.
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At the brink of a new world system: imperialism, race and caste
The U.S. has degenerated to such an extent that is probably one of the least democratic countries in the world. It is ruled by an extremely powerful and undemocratic billionaire class, buttressed by an entrenched bureaucracy and intelligence apparatus, and legitimized by an obsequious media which does not even pretend to be neutral.
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Apocalypse or cooperation?
The perfect storm of COVID-19 and climate change, and the resulting economic damage, will most likely trigger much more social and political instability. Although substantially increased international cooperation can still avert this nightmarish scenario, the current state of global politics provides few grounds for optimism.
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A day in the death of British justice
The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.
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Cuban scientists pen letter to Biden rejecting ‘failed state’ claim
A broad representation of Cuban scientists will address a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden evidencing Cuba’s scientific and political capacity to face Covid-19, in an altruistic manner, despite the limitations of the U.S. blockade.
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Peruvian Congress begins offensive against President Castillo
The opposition will not grant a vote of confidence for the cabinet if Castillo does not remove left-wing ministers such as Guido Bellido and Hector Bejar.