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U.S.-Russia talks may be the last chance
It’s crunch time in Russia-U.S. relations. High-level talks starting Monday will determine the shape of world security for decades to come, observes Tony Kevin.
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Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity
Cuba puts people before profits – showing the world an alternative to the monopolistic practices of Big Pharma. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries.
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Nothing natural about this disaster
Profit over people kills workers in the Midwest.
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The U.S. is intentionally strangling Venezuela
The consequences of the current U.S. sanctions regime, and collusion with the Venezuelan opposition, have been devastating for the Venezuelan people. Against a suffocating embargo and corrupt bureaucracy, the revolution will survive only if the grassroots reinvent it.
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Women in the Haitian Revolution
Black women in the French-speaking world have been marginalized throughout history and even if they did not lack autonomy within the family unit (which often they did), they certainly suffered as a result of their colonial status. This often created double oppression.
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Women’s rights in environmental law, from 1972 to today
Important progress has been made, but now is the time to place women’s rights at the heart of transnational environmental law.
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Kazakhstan turns into graveyard for U.S. diplomacy
The Kazakh Ministry of Health issued an innocuous disclaimer today denying social media reports about the seizure of a “military biological lab near Almaty by unidentified people.”
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Putin and Xi plot their SWIFT escape
Russia and China’s announcement of an independent financial trading platform will free nations under US sanctions from western intrusion into their commercial activities.
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21st Century U.S. coups and attempted coups in Latin America
During the 21st century, the U.S., working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over U.S. corporate interests. U.S. organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th century phenomenon.
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Ill-treatment of Stan Swamy in jail should ‘shake foundation of democracy’: Fellow prisoner
Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, who spent time with the Jesuit priest in Taloja jail, says while “VIP prisoners” get access to all kinds of facilities, prisoners like Swamy are denied even the most basic rights.
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The highest attainable standard of health is a fundamental right of every human being: The First Newsletter (2022)
As we enter the new year almost two years after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020, the official death toll from COVID-19 sits just below 5.5 million people.
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South Africa: Clover workers call for nationalisation
Striking workers fear that corporate changes at the dairy giant will lead to reduced local production and increased imports of Israeli products.
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Unlocking U.S. sanctions: China signs construction & energy deals with Cuba
Beijing is slowly unpicking Washington’s foreign policy, sanction by sanction, country by country.
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Tariq Ali: ‘Democracy is largely a set of rituals now’
“There is no socialist blueprint. If you think there is a socialist blueprint, then you will only be a utopian. The formation of economic policies has to be done with the collaboration of those on whose behalf you are going to change structures.”
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When thousands are evicted each day in a land of fabled riches
Recently on December 15 Eli Saslow wrote a very important feature in The Washington Post on the daily routine life of an elderly police constable Lennie who has been charged with the responsibility of evicting those families or persons from their homes who have not been able to pay their rent.
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A lesson from Simón Bolívar: ‘To Hesitate is to Perish’
Speech in remembrance of the One Hundred and Ninety-first Anniversary of the Liberator Simón Bolívar’s passage to immortality, on December 17, 1830, celebrated at Rivadavia Park in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, at the foot of the monument to Simón Bolívar.
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Succumbing to artists’ protest, Belgium suspends restrictions on cultural activity
The artist community and workers in the cultural sector have claimed that the Belgian government’s COVID-19 regulations targeting the cultural sector were not advised by experts.
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Kim Philby remembered: A traitor to his class
Kim Philby, born on January 1st, 1912, is one of the best known double agents of the Cold War era.
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Colombia 2021: The year in which State terrorism became visible
The State and the ruling classes of Colombia, which constitute the counterinsurgent power bloc, have made use of a series of fallacies to hide the terrorist nature of the State in this country, consolidated as such for decades.
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Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today
In North America, the European colonization started during the 17th century, mainly led by England and France, before undergoing a rapid expansion during the 18thcentury, an era also marked by massive importation of African slaves