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Grenfell Anniversary: Activist rapper Lowkey takes aim at Boris Johnson and UK neoliberalism
Four years after the Grenfell Tower fire, rapper and activist Lowkey revisits the tragic fire that tore through the North Kensington tower block on June 14, 2017—killing 72 low-income residents of housing owned by real-estate moguls.
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Outrage as COVAX reports blocked vaccine payments, U.S. sanctions blamed
Venezuela’s efforts at the Copa America football tournament have also been derailed after 15 players and staffers caught the virus, prompting calls for an investigation.
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Dossier no. 41: The farmers’ revolt in India
India’s big capital, in close cahoots with the political class, took advantage of privatisation policies to seize public resources (including profitable public sector assets), acquire vast tracts of land by displacing village and forest communities, control the nation’s mineral resources, and undermine public sector banks through a cascading set of fraud and non-payment schemes.
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Latin America: in a permanent state of coup
In Latin America, coups d’état are always underway. When a government goes beyond being merely procedurally democratic and advances towards social justice, the always latent coup mechanisms are accelerated.
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Secretary general: NATO won’t “mirror” Russia, will exponentially outspend, surround it with battle groups
Just hours ahead of the NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, the military bloc’s secretary general, Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg, told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble that NATO will continue to expand its military capabilities but will not “mirror” its arch-adversary Russia.
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China’s crypto crackdown spreads to Qinghai and Xinjiang
Last month, the two regions were warned about missing energy intensity reduction targets.
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The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of the weapon: What knowledge do we need for revolution against capitalism
According to the World Bank, “The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to push an additional 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year, with the total rising to as many as 150 million by 2021, depending on the severity of the economic contraction”.
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Hiding the Union busters
The American Bar Association and corporate interests are trying to block a rule that would expose their anti-labor activities.
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New investigation reveals role of Israeli operatives in Colombia’s “political genocide”
Known as the “Red Dance,” the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union remains one of the most extreme cases of political violence in Latin America and new evidence suggests that it was concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history.
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Norman Finkelstein: Truth and justice are the ultimate test, not international NGOs
Even Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in Gaza, and the idea of a Jewish state in the context of Palestine is not legitimate.
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This time may be different: on the UN commission of inquiry investigating violations in the occupied Palestinian territory
Thanks to a rapidly changing political context the new UN Human Rights Council commission announced on May 27th may be different from those in the past–this one may actually help hold Israel accountable.
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Two agonizing years of devastation
Ever since the outbreak of the pandemic, first recorded in India end January 2020, this Modi government’s preoccupation had never been on combating the pandemic in right earnest and saving people’s lives but on continuing to relentlessly pursue the unfolding of the RSS project.
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Freedom Rider: Biden breaks his promises
Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office.
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Destitution, hunger and the lockdown
ON March 24, 2020, Narendra Modi had announced that the country would go into a lockdown after four hours! This nation-wide lockdown was to last till the end of May, after which there were local lockdowns but not a general one.
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Birds of a Fascist feather: why Israel is aiding Colombia’s crackdown on protesters
Photos circulating on social media show Colombian government forces using Israeli weapons against protestors and Israeli-made Sand Cat armored vehicles patrolling the streets of Colombian cities. Alan Macleod investigates the growing ties between the unlikely allies.
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Genocide In Canada: mass grave of Indian children found
A Catholic Church-run residential school for indigenous children was an extermination camp. It operated until 1978.
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Facts are stubborn things: ‘Exterminate All The Brutes’ review
Raoul Peck’s four-part documentary film about colonialism, slavery and genocide is a powerful and thorough exposition of the crimes of colonialism
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After inner Mongolia Bitcoin ban, Sichuan mulls mining shutdown
Will the province, rich in hydropower, change its welcoming stance toward cryptocurrencies?
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How ‘Justice for George Floyd!’ shook the ruling class to the core
On May 25, 2020, 44-year-old white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on 46-year-old unarmed Black man George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, sadistically murdering him.
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U.S.-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the U.S. government’s media apparatus.