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Energy, cost of living and recession
The G7 governments have a problem.
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Canada supports oligarchic gangsterism in Haiti
Rosa Luxemburg popularized the dictum “Socialism or Barbarism”. Since World War I Leftists of various stripes have adopted or modified the maxim. In Haiti the struggle has been between those seeking “poverty with dignity” and oligarchic gangsterism. Unfortunately, Canada has been on the side of barbarism.
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No room for love in Apartheid Israel
The right to intimacy serves as both a realm of domination as well as a form of resistance under Israeli settler-colonialism.
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Steve Fraser, the Rogue Court, then and now
Has the Trump Supreme Court gone rogue? The evidence mounts. Certainly, its recent judicial blitzkrieg has run roughshod over a century’s worth of settled law.
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Columbus teacher strike secures victory
After a historic strike and fight against inhumane school conditions, Columbus teachers scored a victory for themselves and their students against the Columbus City Schools (CCS) Board of Education.
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Our latest interview with Jacques Baud
Jacques Baud (JB): The aim of this book is to show how the misinformation propagated by our media has contributed to push Ukraine in the wrong direction. I wrote it under the motto “from the way we understand crises derives the way we solve them.”
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Puerto Ricans demand cancellation of contract with LUMA Energy
Protesters denounce increased power outages, while power prices have risen several times since LUMA began operating Puerto Rico’s electricity system.
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Controlling inflation at the expense of working class
ECONOMISTS distinguish between two kinds of inflation: “demand-pull” and “cost-push”.
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What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise
Alun Hubbard: “As a field glaciologist, I’ve worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. In that time, I have witnessed some gobsmacking changes.”
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Gorbachev and his legacy must be viewed in context
When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.
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Capitalism won’t fix the climate crisis. It will also not survive it
McGuire: Around 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide has been released into the atmosphere in the last couple of centuries. This is acting as a blanket, keeping in heat that would otherwise head off into space.
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Supporters of Palestinian rights should praise NDP’s dramatic policy shift
Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?
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Doing business with Taliban Govt
In no time after the retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is already immersed in another proxy war in Europe, and the alliance, at U.S. behest, is lurching toward the Arctic to counter Russia and China’s “big plans for the polar region.”
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The military-student-debt complex
GOP war hawks slam Biden initiative for “undermining” Pentagon efforts to prey on desperate young people.
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Biden’s studen loan scam
The Biden administration announcement of so-called student loan debt relief does little to alleviate the problem it claims to solve.
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Factchecking the factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and media access
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S.-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective.
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Roger Waters added to Ukrainian hit list
“Pink Floyd” star declared “Enemy of Ukraine”
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FBI behind seizure of Venezuelan plane in Argentina
The incident gets so little media attention despite the fact that Argentinian authorities detained 19 crew members at a Buenos Aires airport at the behest of Washington.
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Julian Assange files his perfected Grounds of Appeal
26 August 2022, Julian Assange is filing his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel.
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U.S. imperialism: Reflections from a Ukrainian mirror
War is like a volcanic eruption in that it both exposes and obscures the clash of powerful forces.