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ASEAN nations using Laos-China Railway for ‘green’, low-carbon freight
In early December 2021, Laos inaugurated the Boten-Vientiane railway, a 414-kilometer (km) electrified high-speed railway that runs between the capital Vientiane and the town of Boten on the Laos-China border.
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Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah
An agreement for the rights to the natural capital covering 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) in Malaysian Borneo for the next 100 years “in its present form is legally impotent,” according to Nor Asiah Mohd Yusof, the attorney general for the state of Sabah.
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“My pink socialism became red as a wound”: Impossible interview from Ukraine
In 2000s Ukraine, Anatoli Ulyanov co-made online media dedicated to art, culture, and politics, and became recognized for his provocative writing style.
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‘Thank you for hearing our Afghan pain’
People in the United States must recognize the suffering their country continues inflicting in Afghanistan.
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Large protest of teachers hit the streets of San Juan
The discontent comes just weeks after a federal judge in the U.S. approved a restructuring plan to repay creditors at a discounted rate. Even at that the creditors are first in line to be paid over public workers.c
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Teachers in Puerto Rico strike for wages, benefits
On Wednesday, February 9, teachers across Puerto Rico called for a national strike to protest the government and the Fiscal Control Board’s (FCB) cutting of wages and pensions.
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US vs. China in Laos: Two Nations, two approaches, one obvious difference
The United States has elected to lock itself in a zero-sum conflict with China, attempting to stop China’s inevitable rise as the world’s largest, most powerful economy and thus nation.
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Why capitalist governments worry more about inflation than unemployment?
Capitalist governments invariably seek to control inflation by enlarging unemployment.
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The workings of commodified education
The product of pedagogical labour becomes something set apart from life and abstracted into the commodity of “degrees” which can be bought and sold on the educational market.
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The Left has culture, but the World still belongs to the banks: The Sixth Newsletter (2022)
Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. ‘[T]here is great intellectual poverty on the part of the right wing’, Héctor Béjar says in our latest dossier, A Map of Latin America’s Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar (February 2022). ‘There is a lack of right-wing intellectuals everywhere’. Béjar speaks […]
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“The Last Refuge of Scoundrels”
New Evidence of E. O. Wilson’s Intimacy with Scientific Racism
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Canadian interference in Ukrainian affairs reaches epic proportions
If there was an award for the world’s most hypocritical political party, the Liberal Party of Canada would be frontrunners to take the prize.
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Pakistan in the Eye of the Storm
New trends that have appeared in regional security since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan are highly consequential for regional politics.
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A week has passed—and still not a single word in the ‘NYTimes’ about Amnesty International’s landmark report that found Israel practices ‘apartheid’
The New York Times’s failure to report on the Amnesty International report accusing Israel of apartheid is no oversight — it is a deliberate effort to suppress the news.
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Beijing 2022 and China’s challenge to sports imperialism
In this essay, Charles Xu exposes these narratives for the new Cold War propaganda they are. At the same time, he draws from valuable left analysis of the Olympic movement’s historical imbrication with white supremacy to explore China’s fraught relationship with international sports.
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Portuguese elections – ‘Socialist’ party wins but defeat for Left
Dave Kellaway looks at the Portuguese general election result.
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Barack Obama’s father identified as CIA asset in U.S. drive to “recolonize” Africa during early days of the Cold War
Over the last decade, the U.S. has been quietly expanding its covert intelligence empire in Africa as part of a growing geopolitical rivalry with China.
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Dossier no. 49: A map of Latin America’s present: An interview with Héctor Béjar
Four emblematic coups have now been substantially reversed: Chile (1973), Peru (1992), Honduras (2009), and Bolivia (2019). Each of these coups was driven by political forces of the far right backed by the military and by the United States government.
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Neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of social reproduction, from our home to our classroom
It is official: we are getting ready for another round of industrial action in the UK higher education sector.
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What Cuba can give the peoples, and has given, is its example
On February 4, 1962, in José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, the Second Declaration of Havana was ratified by popular acclaim, an emphatic response to the aggression, sabotage and crimes against our country, financed by the United States.