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Functioning as a U.S. proxy, Taiwan continues interference in politics of small Pacific Island Nation of Kiribati
This article is the second in a series covering how the tiny Pacific Island nation of Kiribati has become enmeshed in the new Cold War. The country has a forthcoming election on October 25 and the U.S. and its allies are advancing a covert regime change operation designed to unseat President Taneti Maamau, who has aligned Kiribati with China.—Editors
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Dossier no. 81: The Twentieth Century, the Global South, and China’s historical position
Chinese scholar Wang Hui looks back at the twentieth century, which was born out of the multiple revolutions in the peripheral areas of the world, including China.
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In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states
An increasingly assertive group of African nations are constraining the ability of Canadian companies to profit from resources.
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Venezuela: Opposing the blockade is our main task
The United States is waging an economic war against Venezuela.
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Inside Argentina’s university occupations
Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina.
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‘The Commune is nothing new here’: The Rio Cataniapo Commune (Part I)
A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.
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Cuba faces nation-wide blackout, activists renew calls for an end to the blockade
The inclusion of Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list has severely limited the island nation from accessing funds and the international market.
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The post-election challenge in France
An interview with John Mullen of La France Insoumise.
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Israeli attacks on Palestinian healthcare amount to crime against humanity, UN inquiry warns
A new UN report confirms that Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s healthcare amounts to crime of extermination, as hospitals in Palestine and Lebanon continue to face relentless attacks.
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How to do a conjunctural analysis: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2024)
Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission–as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000–conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play and provide political and social movements with the materials to intervene to shape the future.
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Bayer’s “backward” claim: A bid to reap control of Indian agriculture
Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet commander visits Sri Lanka to cement ties with new president
Admiral Steve Koehler, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited Sri Lanka on October 10 in the wake of the election of Anura Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its electoral front, the National People’s Power (NPP).
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Contesting the idea of progress: Labor’s AI challenge
The material changes ushered in under the aegis of artificial intelligence (AI) are not leading to the abolition of human labor but rather its degradation. This is typical of the history of mechanization since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Instead of relieving people of work, employers have deployed technology—even the mere idea of technology—to […]
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As U.S. puppets the Australian political class rejects international humanitarian law
The Australian Labor-Coalition political class has ignored, and by its actions rejected, UN decisions that Australia is legally obliged to stop its support for the Israeli settler-colonial project, to actively seek to stop Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid, and to cease military, diplomatic, economic, commercial, financial, investment, trade, political, and legal relations with the Israeli occupation.
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Could the Sahel Alliance divide Africa?
Africa continues to rise up and delivers surprises. In recent days, several African leaders have made diplomatic trips that are reshaping the geometries of the international chessboard. The SAHEL Alliance states are charting a watershed that could divide Africa in two and determine a new historical course for the entire continent.
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Finnish capitalism at a tipping point: Resisting racism, austerity, and militarism
The Finns Party leader and current finance minister and deputy prime minister, Riikka Purra, has previously made a litany of racist and violent statements against immigrants (e.g., using the Finnish equivalent of the ‘n-word’) (Teivainen, 2023).
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President Petro is not alone: Colombia marches against coup attempt
Colombians took to the streets to protest against the coup d’état that the Colombian right wing is attempting to carry out against President Gustavo Petro.
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As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course
Over the past few years, numerous West African states have taken steps toward greater economic and security sovereignty, often in opposition to Western (specifically French) designs on the region.
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Israel uses military assassinations to legitimize civilian massacres
Since the beginning of its large-scale attack against Lebanon, the Israeli army has committed more than 20 massacres of civilians, and has attempted to legitimize and justify them under the pretext of targeting military targets or carrying out military or political assassinations.
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CIA says no evidence Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon
The comments from CIA Director William Burns come amid calls for Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.