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Build the unity of the youth of the world: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2023)
From 28 July to 5 August 1973, eight million people, including 25,600 guests from 140 countries, participated in the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin (German Democratic Republic or DDR).
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FAO report refutes Venezuelan food crisis narrative
The most recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has revealed positive news for Venezuela.
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The U.S. ‘Act of War’ against China
The U.S. export controls (the act of war) on computer chips aim to cripple China’s ability to produce or purchase high-end chips, which are crucial for the development of advanced technologies such as supercomputers and artificial intelligence (AI). Some call this a Silicon Curtain in the New Cold War against China.
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BRICS problems, BRI solutions
While the five original BRICS states have their geopolitical differences, they are finding enormous common ground on the geoeconomic front as trade volumes surge and trade routes multiply.
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CIA has been working to overthrow the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since its inception in 1949
Six years ago, The New York Times reported that the Chinese government systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.
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Kiev using banned mines, NATO munitions to bomb civilians in Donetsk
Ukraine has taken to using petal mines and cluster munitions in Donetsk, while also using missiles supplied by NATO to strike residential buildings.
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The German Left on the war in Ukraine (English/German)
The following is the text and the video of the speech delivered by the German Left (Die Linke) MP Sevim Dağdelen to a debate on the war in Ukraine and its global repercussions, organized by the “Anti-NATO Action”.
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Is the end of Western financial dominance in Africa on the horizon or will the history of Libya repeat itself?
Countries across Africa recently took a major step towards economic independence from the West by launching an insurance system that will allow them to conduct inter-state trade without the involvement of the U.S. dollar or other Western currencies. This could have major implications on the development of both African as well as Western economies. However, the Wests response to previous attempts to free Africa from the economic and political dominance of the West, then by Libya, are a source of worry.
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The impending pro-war Democratic Party takeover of Pacifica Radio
The largest, most historically influential progressive non-profit radio network in America, Pacifica Radio, faces a takeover attempt by Democratic Party elements. Will Pacifica embrace the pro-war logic it was created to oppose?
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American Anthropological Association endorses academic boycott of Israel
Members of the American Anthropological Association overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions with 71% of members supporting the measure.
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Glimpses of an endgame in Ukraine
The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors.
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Weak propaganda talk
The aim of the counter-offensive was to reach the Sea of Azov, some 100 kilometer south of the frontline. At the current speed it would take the Ukrainian army 1,000 days (and many more soldiers and material than it has) to reach it.
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Newly organized nurses in Texas and Kansas strike for a first contract
Through wet weather in Wichita, Kansas, and scorching heat in Austin, Texas, hundreds of nurses walked picket lines June 27 in a one-day strike for safe staffing and patient safety. Nearly 2,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United (NNU) walked out.
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If everybody’s going to join NATO, then why have the United Nations? The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2023)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) held its annual summit on 11–12 July in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee marks anniversary of Cuba’s July 2021 uprising with renewed calls for regime change
To commemorate the two-year anniversary of right-wing protests in Cuba in July 2021, the House Foreign Affairs Committee sponsored a roundtable next to the Bay of Pigs museum in Miami, Florida, that affirmed U.S. calls for regime change in Cuba.
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French MPs to vote on Bill that would allow police to spy through phones
The proposed law specifies that the procedure can be executed “without the knowledge or consent of its owner or possessor,” but is limited to suspects involved in terrorism, organised crime and other illegal activities punishable by five or more years in prison.
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Biden, Jayapal, and liberal Zionists rush to prop up the Israel lobby for 2024
Liberal Zionists rushed to affirm their support for Israel and hatred of anti-Zionism in the wake of the Pramila Jayapal “racist state” comment because they are afraid the Israel lobby will abandon the Democratic party.
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200 years of the Monroe Doctrine: History and present
The Monroe Doctrine served Washington to declare unilaterally and as if it were a divine right, protector of the American continent, letting the rest of the world know where its zone of influence, expansion and predominance resided.
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The war in Ukraine: Towards the collapse of the West’s reputation
After the bipolar world that existed from the end of the Second World War until the implosion of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the current conflict on the territory of Ukraine is the point of gravity in the process of transition between two great eras of contemporary history: the old—unipolar—that has lasted for the last 30 years and the new—multipolar—post-hegemonic, that came into being at the end of February 2022.
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Politics of hedging in the Indo-Pacific
New Zealand’s estimation matters because it is a small country in Southern Pacific heavily dependent on trade with China for preserving its prosperity and yet one of the Five Eyes (along with the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada), the exclusive secretive security grouping of Anglo-Saxon countries.