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Wang Yi: The historic step from peaceful coexistence to a shared future for humanity
With China having recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, on July 17, Foreign Minister Wang Yi published an important article outlining the historical progression from the Five Principles to President Xi Jinping’s vision of a shared future for humanity and their interrelationship of continuity, inheritance, application and development.
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The Country of the Rust Belt and the Broken Road: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2024)
From the 1942 ‘American century’ to Trump’s ‘American carnage’, the U.S. has shifted from a post-WW2 boom to decline, facing political divides, economic crisis, poverty, and social decay.
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Labour versus International law
The ICJ ruling finding Israel’s occupation unlawful makes the first test for David Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’ clear: either Labour opposes dispossession and genocide, or it is complicit.
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Netanyahu’s speech was as American as it gets
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.
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Illegal sale of Palestinian land embraced by Biden, governors, mayors and city councilmembers
As Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians continues, so does the theft of Palestinian land. Real estate events that sell off illegal settlements acquired through settler violence in the West Bank happen in the U.S. with the aid and permission from local elected leaders.
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China brokers a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups
BEIJING has brokered a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah, Chinese state media reported today.
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American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza says IDF snipers shoot toddlers
‘No toddler gets shot twice by mistake,’ said Dr. Mark Perlmutter.
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The dialectic and why it matters to Marxists
Eric Ruder examines the dialectical method developed and deployed by Karl Marx.
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Loss of empire, loss of lucidity
As the United States’ imperial system and Western hegemony circles the drain, lucid thought is becoming a rare commodity. But there is hope.
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U.S. media downplays and ignores ICJ ruling declaring Israeli occupation illegal
The New York Times and the rest of the U.S. mainstream media downplayed, covered up, and even ignored the historic ICJ opinion declaring the Israeli occupation illegal.
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Chavistas warn about escalation of media warfare against Venezuela’s elections (+Machado)
The Venezuelan deputy minister for anti-blockade policies, William Castillo, has warned that now that there are ten days before the presidential elections, international media is intensifying its media warfare against Chavismo and Venezuela.
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Just Stop Oil vows to continue civil resistance after activists jailed for 21 years over Zoom call
Judge Christopher Hehir set a disturbing precedent on Thursday after he jailed the activists for a total of 21 years at Southwark Crown Court.
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American inquisition (Part 2): What McCarthyism really destroyed
Taking down the “Soviet Menace” in America, (part 1) was, not a response to any real “national security threat,” but a very real threat to corporate profits and neocolonial domination by the U.S. ruling class.
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American inquisition part 1: The origins of the Cold War and McCarthyism
The ghost of “Tail-Gunner Joe” McCarthy is haunting the U.S. Congress.
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Settlers launch wave of attacks after UN’s highest court rules Israel must end colonisation of West Bank
The court said Israel had no right to sovereignty in the territories, was violating international laws against acquiring territory by force and was impeding Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
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Feeling the heat: capitalism and global warming
Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise, hitting a new high in 2023.
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Adam Smith on Bengal and North America
In his opus ‘The Wealth of Nations’ published in 1776 Adam Smith drew a distinction between the progressive state, the stationary state and the declining state.
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NATO/U.S. complicity in the relentless Israeli genocide of Gaza
As the genocide continued and a few days after the end of the NATO celebrations, an assassination attempt on former President Trump caused President Biden to address the nation and orate that “political violence has no place in America and U.S. politics should never be a killing field.”
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The Pacific lands and seas are neither forbidden nor forgotten: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2024)
A powerful struggle is taking place in Kanaky (New Caledonia) between the indigenous people and French colonial authorities. In the background, the US-led militarisation of the Pacific intensifies.