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Puerto Ricans demand cancellation of contract with LUMA Energy
Protesters denounce increased power outages, while power prices have risen several times since LUMA began operating Puerto Rico’s electricity system.
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Controlling inflation at the expense of working class
ECONOMISTS distinguish between two kinds of inflation: “demand-pull” and “cost-push”.
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What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise
Alun Hubbard: “As a field glaciologist, I’ve worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. In that time, I have witnessed some gobsmacking changes.”
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Gorbachev and his legacy must be viewed in context
When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.
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Capitalism won’t fix the climate crisis. It will also not survive it
McGuire: Around 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide has been released into the atmosphere in the last couple of centuries. This is acting as a blanket, keeping in heat that would otherwise head off into space.
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How France underdevelops Africa
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) – Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in other post-colonial African economies.
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Supporters of Palestinian rights should praise NDP’s dramatic policy shift
Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?
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Doing business with Taliban Govt
In no time after the retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is already immersed in another proxy war in Europe, and the alliance, at U.S. behest, is lurching toward the Arctic to counter Russia and China’s “big plans for the polar region.”
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The military-student-debt complex
GOP war hawks slam Biden initiative for “undermining” Pentagon efforts to prey on desperate young people.
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Biden’s studen loan scam
The Biden administration announcement of so-called student loan debt relief does little to alleviate the problem it claims to solve.
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Factchecking the factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and media access
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S.-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective.
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3.8 million tenants in the U.S. could be evicted in the next two months
Only 3.6 million eviction cases were filed in the entire year of 2018. The looming eviction crisis reflects the catastrophic failure of the U.S. government.
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Roger Waters added to Ukrainian hit list
“Pink Floyd” star declared “Enemy of Ukraine”
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FBI behind seizure of Venezuelan plane in Argentina
The incident gets so little media attention despite the fact that Argentinian authorities detained 19 crew members at a Buenos Aires airport at the behest of Washington.
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Julian Assange files his perfected Grounds of Appeal
26 August 2022, Julian Assange is filing his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel.
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U.S. imperialism: Reflections from a Ukrainian mirror
War is like a volcanic eruption in that it both exposes and obscures the clash of powerful forces.
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Intelligence operative confirms British gov’t is targeting The Grayzone
A public call to ban The Grayzone by a UK Foreign Office veteran and psy-ops specialist confirms the malign intentions of British intelligence.
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Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more with less
Around the world, there’s a conjoined crisis of climate change and housing shortages—two topics at the top of the list of discussions in the recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
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Black King of Songs
His communism brought the great American singer Paul Robeson trouble in the U.S., but helped make him a hero in China.
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Indian workers defend their steel with their lives: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2022)
The long and distant epoch of pre-history, dated to the time before the start of the Common Era, is conventionally divided into three periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age.