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Canada and Ukraine: The suppression of a shameful history
A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced by the Commission of Inquiry into War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that names 900 Canadians accused of war crimes committed on behalf of the Nazis.
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All wars end in negotiations. So will the war in Ukraine: The Third Newsletter (2025)
Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet.
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Statement by the Communist Party of Israel on the ceasefire agreement in Gaza
Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.
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America preying on our universities
We should talk about a malignant influence on Australia’s security which has long been harboured unquestioned–so-called independent think tanks.
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Trump’s Texas tycoons
Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.
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Bird flu: Another capitalist crisis
Since 2022, the largest bird flu outbreak in history has raged across the United States.
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With 350,000 in attendance, Claudia Sheinbaum’s Zocalo rally shows Mexico’s fourth transformation is thriving
Throughout her hour-long speech Sheinbaum addressed the central role of empowering women in her presidency, outlined her policies and achievements so far and directly spoke to relations with the United States.
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‘Complete surrender’: How Gaza defeated Israel and what it means—analysis
Israel assumed that by destroying Gaza, it would eradicate the resistance. However, that calculation was deeply flawed. The resistance in Gaza is directly tied to the Palestinian people. It’s not about eliminating a specific number of fighters but about the enduring bond between the people and the resistance itself.
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President Maduro decorates Officials sanctioned by U.S., Canada, and European Union
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro awarded decorations to officials who are illegally sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union on January 10, after his swearing-in as the country’s constitutional president for the 2025-2031 term.
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Why firing the prison guards involved in Robert Brooks’ death is neither quick nor easy
Our investigation in 2023 exposed how New York’s discipline system failed to hold abusive guards to account.
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Annexation redux: Trump’s expansionist threats unmask longstanding policy
In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a buzz in the corporate media about President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on annexation.
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Palestinian filmmakers are doing the impossible to capture their stories
Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.
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Alba Movements and the Bolivarian Revolution
With President Maduro’s third term about to begin, we discuss an organizational network that promotes continental integration from below.
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Buying Greenland: Trump’s Arctic manoeuvres
Chris Bambery looks at the reasons for the new president’s threat to buy Greenland and finds there is military logic in the madness, and behind it the growing rivalry with China.
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The U.S. once again fails to impose its will on the Venezuelan people
The U.S. once again brought out its “democracy and human rights” talking points in an attempt to install opposition leader Edmundo González as president. While this effort failed, they will not stop in attempts to loot the country’s resources.
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A radical voice in a dispossessed land (Yates interviews the translator of Paraguayan Sorrow)
Rafael Barrett has always been close to the hearts of Paraguayan radicals, who, along with his progeny, have kept his memory alive. And he is known throughout the Southern Cone of South America, though his work has suffered long periods of relative neglect there.
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BRICS grows, adding Indonesia as member: World’s 4th most populous country, 7th biggest economy
BRICS keeps expanding. As a new full member, it added Indonesia, the 4th most populous country with the 7th largest economy on Earth. BRICS now has 10 members and 8 partners. They make up 41.4% of global GDP (PPP) and half the world population.
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“GDP-NATIONALISM”
There are at least three basic differences between European nationalism as it developed in the seventeenth century and the anti-colonial third world nationalism of the twentieth century.
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‘The Fire Boom’
In this excerpt from Mike Davis’s classic book ‘The Ecology of Fear’, he explores the tinderbox of the wealthy “Los Angeles frontiers” and the massive public resources dedicated to keep it from igniting.
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Dr Victor Frankenstein disavows his monster: The Second Newsletter (2025)
Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.