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Weaponising anti-semitism, bringing down Corbyn
Britain’s mainstream media, its Army and the Israel lobby all combined to ensure Jeremy Corbyn did not become prime minister, a new book argues.
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How “peaceful protests” in Nicaragua became an attempted coup
Five years ago, Nicaragua was subject to a violent insurrection that lasted from April through July, 2018. In the second of four articles, we look at how initial support for the coup relied on widespread use of social media.
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“Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if it Takes Place,” says Noam Chomsky
“Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we’ll go off the precipice together.”
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‘Charging domestic terrorism is intended to make the cost of protesting too high’
CounterSpin interview with Cody Bloomfield on anti-activist terrorist charges.
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Manufactured crisis over U.S. debt ceiling sets stage for bipartisan assault on Social Security and Medicare
All of the social gains made by the working class in the course of more than a century of struggle must be wiped out to pay for the drive by the American ruling class to remove, by force of arms, Russia and China as obstacles to US hegemony, even if it means triggering a nuclear war.
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The Group of Seven should finally be shut down: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2023)
During the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, near where the meeting was held.
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NicaNotes: The experience of Nicaragua in managing the Covid pandemic
Nicaragua, the third poorest country in Latin America, has a population of approximately 6.7 million people but has the most extensive and well-equipped public health system in Central America.
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Biden’s debt ceiling betrayal is a Democratic Party tradition
Joe Biden is continuing the ignoble tradition of colluding with republicans while pretending to fight them. The latest debt limit drama is another betrayal of the people.
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The U.S. continues to lose Middle East power and ‘Tel Aviv’ makes things worse
If the U.S. wishes to navigate its way in a world where it no longer rules, but shares power with China, it must reconnect with reality.
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U.S. foreign policy: A bipartisan embrace of militarism
In December 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, approving “national defense” spending of $858 billion for fiscal year 2023
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“Peak China” – a new low in Western attempts to persuade China to commit suicide
One of the latest covers of the magazine The Economist carries a headline “Peak China”. This, as its name suggests, is a claim that while during the last seven decades China’s has enjoyed a peaceful “rise”, specifically in relation to the U.S., this has now ended. It was the latest of decades long wildly inaccurate predictions regarding China.
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‘The court’s position is, no one can tell them what to do’
CounterSpin interview with Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court corruption
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U.S. announces plans to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
On Friday, the White House announced the most reckless and dangerous escalation of its involvement in the war with Russia to date, that it has decided to train Ukrainian pilots to fly U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets and send the nuclear-capable planes to the battlefield.
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Judge reinstates ‘zero bail’ policy in Los Angeles
A preliminary injunction issued this week forbids officials from forcing people charged with low-level offenses to remain in jail because they cannot afford bail.
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Biden drops ‘One China’ policy, uses Philippines for war drive over Taiwan
Pentagon strategists have been beefing up their military presence in Asia and building alliances in preparation for an all-out war against China.
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Circumventing the Blockade: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part II)
An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.
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The splendor of a thousand suns: Hiroshima and imperial forgetfulness
Joe Biden’s visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of “a thousand suns” on a defenseless population.
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Indonesia launches national payment system to replace VISA, MasterCard
Dicky Kartikoyono the Head of Strategic Management and Governance Department of the Central Bank, says that Indonesia will launch its very own national payments system to be used in state-owned institutions and enterprises.
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Understanding the highly complex world of Western China analysis
Former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby was interviewed on The National Review’s Charles CW Cooke Podcast, where he provided some very high-level analysis on the tensions around China, Taiwan, and the United States.
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Durham report reveals the real threat to “democracy” – The FBI weaponized by Democrat Party affiliated elites
Six years and millions of dollars later, the “Durham report” released on May 15th confirmed once again what a few of us had the nerve to argue before all of the reports and stories that subsequently emerged—that “Russiagate” was the most massive fraud ever perpetrated on the U.S. public by a section of the capitalist rulers and represented a maturing of a form of U.S. neofascism unique to this historical moment.