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Pandemic preparedness on all fronts
The COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call to the international health community and world governments.
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Truckers slow down traffic across France ahead of Tuesday strike
French truckers obstruct major roadways in protest against the wildly unpopular pension reform.
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With us or against us’ fails in Munich and Bengaluru as U.S. tries ‘offer they can’t refuse’
“You can’t be neutral” in NATO’s proxy war with Russia, foreign ministers of the U.S., Germany and Ukraine told leaders of Global South countries at the Munich Security Conference on February 18.
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Black Alliance for Peace supports National Day of Action Against Police Terror
Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) member organization Community Movement Builders (CMB) is calling all organizations, organizers and community members to a National Day of Action Against Police Terror on March 9, 2023.
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The Havana Syndrome case cracked
Even before the attack on the homeland of the weather balloons, the Havana Syndrome tested America’s mettle.
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Making Tunisia non-African again – Saied’s anti-Black campaign
On 21 February 2023, President Kais Saied called a meeting with the National Security Council to take urgent measures “to address the phenomenon of the influx of large numbers of irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa to Tunisia.”
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Major U.S. outlets found Hersh’s Nord Stream scoop too hot to handle
Scores of hits from publications across the globe pop up from an internet search for veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh’s claim that the US destroyed Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipeline.
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State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining
Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment.
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Starmer is paving the way for the triumph of dark politics
By waging an all-out war on the left and its ideas, the Labour leader is strangling hope of change in a time of crisis–and risks driving voters towards right-wing authoritarians
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Why is Norway the glove that fits the USA’s hand?
In the sequel to his revelation of Norway’s and USA’s role in blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, Seymour Hersh addresses the long standing tradition of Norway’s secret and illegal collaboration with USA.
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House overwhelmingly approves resolution to maintain Syria sanctions after earthquake
Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the resolution
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Top Biden officials address pro-war rally led by Ukrainian Nazi supporters
The rally would have been unremarkable if it were not for it being the anniversary of the invasion and for the big names on the speaker roster.
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Rail lobbyists pay Politico to tout train safety
The Beltway newsletter is running ads about the railroad industry’s alleged commitment to safety as rail lobbyists fight new safety rules.
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Faster, higher, hotter: What we learned about the climate system in 2022 (Part 1)
Beyond all the hype and all the anxiety about climate policymaking, the upbeat newsmaking about energy transitions and the growing dread of civilisational collapse, what have we learned about the climate system in the last year?
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The Arctic is the next frontier in the new cold war
Geostrategically located, with profitable natural resources, the Arctic is rapidly becoming a militarized zone of power politics in the new cold war, contested by the U.S. and Europe, Russia and China.
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Treating infrastructure as a Holy Cow
THERE is an impression shared by even progressive intellectuals that the entity that goes by the name of “physical infrastructure” is an absolute necessity in each country, and that the actual amount of infrastructure that exists is always less than what is needed.
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Those who die for life–like Hugo Chávez–cannot be called dead: The Ninth Newsletter (2023)
On 28 October 2005, a special event was held in Caracas at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At this gathering, held on the birthday of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Bolívar’s teacher), the Venezuelan government announced that nearly 1.5 million adults had learned to read through Mission Robinson.
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Free trade? “To Hell with It”
U.S. President Joe Biden is a self-confessed Catholic. He regularly attends the religious services of his congregation and, like every U.S. president, he has sworn to his office by placing his hand on the bible. Therefore, it is safe to say that he is aware of the negative moral charge that the word “hell” has among his people.
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West is out of touch with rest of world politically, EU-funded study admits
A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want multipolarity, not continued “American global supremacy”.
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The Ukraine War viewed from the Global South
In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of the West, Russia, and China. The findings in the combined study are robust enough to demand our serious attention.