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World Bank climate finance plan little help, unfair
The World Bank plans to use public funds to subsidize private finance, ostensibly to mobilize much more capital to address the climate crisis. But the new plan is not the solution it purports to be.
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Schism and Faschism: Berlin Bulletin no: 214, August 16, 2023
Again Victor Grossman turns to his faded history books, and to the uprisings—and then the defeat of divided leftists between 1919 and 1933. Where today is the LINKE, the party of peace, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, socialism? It is in a crisis!
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Former Israeli general accuses Israel of ‘war crimes’ reminiscent of Nazi Germany in West Bank
Former Israeli army general Amiram Levin said what is happening in the West Bank is ‘total apartheid’ and ‘dragging us all into war crimes’.
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‘The narrative here is that workers fought and they won’
CounterSpin interview with Teddy Ostrow on UPS/Teamsters agreement.
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Niger coup will have global ramifications for the U.S., France, and Canada
This isn’t what Western countries wanted to sow in West Africa, writes Owen Schalk.
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Fidel
The Commander of the Cuban Revolution is, without a doubt, one of the indispensable figures in the history of the Americas and this explains, in part, the permanent symbolic assassination to which his figure was and is subjected.
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Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of science, weakness of scientists
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 heralded the atomic age and ushered in the military-industrial complex that took over the United States.
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Seymour Hersh: Harold Pinter had it right
Lessons in Western self-sabotage from the Ukraine War.
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What we lose through the ghettoisation of urban India
The gigantic question is, is there a way out? It gets harder everyday with the kind of blatantly divisive social atmosphere which is promoted by the powers that be.
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The deadly intersection of labor exploitation and climate change
As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned interior spaces, ordering food, groceries, clothing, and other products to be delivered to us.
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Beyond Niger: How ECOWAS became a tool for Western imperialism in Africa
Niger is shaping up to be the surprising frontline of the new Cold War.
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A primer on the occupation of Western Sahara
As Israel recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara, it is imperative that we stand in solidarity with the indigenous Sahrawis and their right to self-determination.
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ECOWAS approves military action in Niger ‘as soon as possible’
Ivory Coast President says the aim of the military operation is to “restore” ousted president Mohamed Bazoum.
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Eritrea celebrates freedom
Eritrea is an example of an independent and self-determining African state. Its people are rightly proud of their history.
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Niger: Aftermath of the fall of Qadhafi in the African Sahel
Niger is one of the countries located in the Sahel region, perhaps the most historically exploited area in the world. It is the southern fringe of the Sahara, which divides the Maghreb from sub-Saharan Africa.
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Shooting the messenger: Adverse health trends revealed in the NFHS (5) 2019-2021
Economists have put forward all kinds of fallacious arguments to justify the prolonged fall in per capita food spending, and hence in nutritional intake, in India, such as mechanisation leading to lower energy needs, change in the age structure of the population, change in tastes and so on.
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From Chi-Town bagman to ECOWAS chairman: meet the former money launderer leading the push to invade Niger
Since the overthrow of Niger’s U.S.-friendly government, West African nations of the ECOWAS bloc have threatened an invasion of their neighbor. Before leading the charge for intervention, ECOWAS chair Bola Tinubu spent years laundering millions for heroin dealers in Chicago, and has since been ensnared in numerous corruption scandals.
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Biden sends $345 million weapons to Taiwan: Activists protest U.S.-Australia anti-China war games
This is the first part of a $1 billion weapons transfer directly from Pentagon stockpiles to Taiwan this year.
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Jens Stoltenberg’s global vision encourages conflict, militarization, and historical amnesia
Recent Foreign Affairs article unmasks NATO’s view on the shifting tides of global power.
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Biden is risking war with Iran—and the media is ignoring the danger
The Biden administration plans to station Marines on commercial ships in the Persian Gulf. This could trigger war with Iran, but most of the mainstream U.S. press is not paying attention.