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China calls for investigation into U.S. massacres of civilians in Afghanistan
On Wednesday, September 1, Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the massacres of civilians committed by the US military in Afghanistan during 20 years of occupation and war should be fully investigated.
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Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual property rights vs. human rights
The multilateral trading system anchored by the WTO is not confined to cross-border trade in physical goods.
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Taliban faces US destabilization from within
At the weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that Russia will consider recognising Afghanistan’s new authorities once an inclusive government is formed in the country.
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Africa’s uprising is frozen, its cry swollen with hope: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2021)
On 26 August, two deadly attacks on the perimeter of Kabul’s international airport killed over a hundred people, including a dozen U.S. soldiers. The bombings struck people desperate to enter the airport and flee Afghanistan. Not long afterwards, the Islamic State of Khorasan (IS-K) took credit for the attack.
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5 years since the 2016 Coup: an Interview with Dilma Rousseff
The 2016 coup was ground zero. It was the inaugural act, but the process continues.
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Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
“The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil forms the basis of the capitalist mode of production.” (Karl Marx)
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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics – Book Review
“Except for Palestine” is a remarkable little book. Within it, the authors Hill and Plitnick present the larger picture that the self-proclaimed progressive “universal” values of the United States are argued for in many troubled spots of the world, except for Palestine.
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Nicaragua at a revolutionary crossroads and in imperialist crosshairs
U.S. attack on Nicaragua targets its Black community.
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Venezuela’s gangs have been turned into armed capitalist enterprises (Part II)
Criminologist Andrés Antillano examines a high-profile security operation to neutralize criminal activity in the Cota 905 district in July.
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Chip wars or the crisis of late capitalism?
If the U.S. wants to be a world leader, it has to match China in investing in knowledge generation for future technology. Why then is the U.S. taking the sanctions route? Sanctions are simpler to implement; building a society that values knowledge is much more difficult. This is the crisis of late capitalism.
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The media myth of ‘once prosperous’ and democratic Venezuela before Chávez
Economists typically use GDP per capita to assess how rich a country is. It is basically a measure of the average income per person. If journalists cared to be at all precise when they say that Venezuela had once been “rich,” then that’s a statistic they’d cite.
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Corporate media politicize WHO investigation on Covid origins to vilify China
One key factor in spreading suspicion that the coronavirus might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is media’s early and ongoing politicization of the World Health Organization’s investigation into the pandemic’s origins. Much of this politicization weaponizes Orientalist tropes about China being especially, perhaps genetically, untrustworthy—the sort of people who would unleash COVID-19 on the world.
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John Pilger: Afghanistan, the great game of smashing countries
In 2010, I was in Washington and arranged to interview the mastermind of Afghanistan’s modern era of suffering, Zbigniew Brzezinski. I quoted to him his autobiography in which he admitted that his grand scheme for drawing the Soviets into Afghanistan had created “a few stirred up Muslims”. “Do you have any regrets?” I asked. “Regrets! Regrets! What regrets?” – John Pilger
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The blood never dries
While our government wants us to step back and forget what we know about the violence of Britain’s imperial state, Richard Gott says it’s time for a much deeper reckoning.
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‘The Blockade Against Venezuela: Measures and Consequences’
In recent years, the United States and its allies have unleashed a devastating blockade against Venezuela in hopes of triggering regime change.
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A guide for the U.S. antiwar movement
Six Principles for an Increasingly Authoritarian Age.
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World mobilises against the U.S. on Cuba–including China
Cuba is a small country. But because it became in 1959 the first country in the Western hemisphere to thoroughly break with U.S. domination, and embark on a path of national independence, events concerning Cuba have a geopolitical significance many times greater than its size. Present events show that this continues to be the case.
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U..S suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost
Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.
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A working class perspective on China’s tech regulations
Bourgeois pundits are alarmed by the Chinese government’s latest regulatory changes. A Wall Street Journal headline is typical: “China’s corporate crackdown is just getting started. Signs point to more tumult ahead.”
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Make no mistake, the U.S. military will continue to thrive after Afghanistan
There are too many careers and too much money tied to American power projection. So expect it to shift, not recede from the stage.