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ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America
It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people of these two Latin American countries
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Half of Americans under 35 see Hamas attack as ‘justified by Palestinian grievances’
Democrats are terrified because they are losing their grip on the young. A new poll says half of Americans under 35 see Hamas’s October 7 attack as justified by Palestinian grievances. Young Americans are seeing the enormity of genocide.
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How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change
Historical responsibility for climate change is radically shifted when colonial rule is taken into account, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.
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Trilateral Missile Defense System a step towards Asian NATO
The Biden Administration extols the Camp David Agreement as a qualitative leap forward in the US, Japan, and South Korea military cooperation.
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Argentina is not for sale: Unions respond to privatization, regional solidarity is rising
President-elect Javier Milei moves to privatize energy—and everything else.
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‘Hell on Earth’ returns to Gaza as Israel extends bombing to the south
Over 100 solidarity actions planned in Britain on Saturday.
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SYRIZA is falling apart after 9 more MPs leave the left-wing party
Νine lawmakers of left-wing SYRIZA announced on Thursday morning that they break way from Greece’s main opposition party seeking to form their own parliamentary group. Early aftenoon, also MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis announced his departure from the party.
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Hugs, smiles were enough to take Israeli propaganda down
Who would’ve thought that Israeli propaganda is so fragile that it can be defeated by acts of normal human interaction: blowing a kiss, waving goodbye, or simply just smiling?
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The dangerously appealing style of the Far Right: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2023)
Before he won Argentina’s presidential election on 19 November, Javier Milei circulated a video of himself in front of a series of white boards.
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Harry Bridges and the ILWU – then and now
A review of Robert Cherny’s “Harry Bridges Labor Radical, Labor Legend”, University of Illinois Press 2023.
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Despicable derailment of UN Climate negotiations
Capitalism is taking humanity to disaster with a tiny minority doing most of the damage.
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Biden became ‘Genocide Joe’ thanks to the Israel lobby
Why is Biden helpless to do what any decent person would do and oppose Israel’s apocalyptic destruction and massacres in Gaza? Because he worries about losing the organized Jewish community’s support.
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COP28: The mirage that capitalism can solve its destruction
The COP28 summit taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 30 November to 12 December is a colossal illusion, a mirage in the desert.
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Israel-Palestine war: Occupied West Bank home to ‘two million Nazis’ says Smotrich
Far-right finance minister is latest senior Israeli to make broad-brush inflammatory statements about Palestinians.
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Milei is ‘really as extreme as you get in Right-Wing Libertarian ideas’
CounterSpin interview with Mark Weisbrot on Javier Milei.
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IPCC rebellion
It’s 35 years since formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities.”
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Padua burns for Giulia
Fifteen thousand people marched through the streets after a young woman’s murder. ‘Femicide is not a crime of passion, it is a crime of power. It is a state murder, because the state does not defend us and does not protect us.’
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The dark side of SpaceX’s flight of innovation
While Elon Musk grabbed headlines again after Starship’s second test flight, his workers continue to toil under high stress and the lack of safety.
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Cause and Effect: Chicago City Hall’s pro-Israel resolution and the murder of Wadea Al-Fayoume
The Chicago City Council’s demonization of Palestinians set the stage for the murder of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume. We refuse to accept the grief of elected officials who would rather stand with our corpses than support our freedom.
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The Right’s persecution of Palestine supporters looks a lot like a new Red Scare
Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can’t bully a movement into silence.