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World War III and our failure to defend against climate
In World War III the enemy is not an array of tanks, shells and soldiers, but a collection of beliefs damaging to the earth’s future. The enemies are the minds and actions of those with the cult of neo-liberalism and greed acting through the power of huge industries, the enemy within.
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Intelligence services have penetrated and corrupted human rights NGOs, says former senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner
On April 7, 2022, the UN General Assembly voted to exclude Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.
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U.S. army aided Israel in bloody military op launched from Gaza ‘Aid Pier’
The operation saw the mass killing of over 200 Palestinians, with health officials describing the inside of Al-Aqsa Hospital as a ‘slaughterhouse’
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Are you ready for WWIII? The Russians are
The Armavir Incident–the destruction on 23 May of a key part of Russia’s nuclear defence–means the Doomsday clock is ticking closer to midnight.
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European recognition of Palestine signals major shift in global discourse
Israel now stands in near-complete isolation, due, in part, to its genocide in Gaza but also to the courage and steadfastness of the Palestinian people and the global solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
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Germany and Netanyahu: Berlin Bulletin No. 223, June 7, 2024
Far from water-logged Bavaria, immensely worse destruction is bloodily wrecking two million lives, and with Germany, though so distant, deeply involved. Of course I mean Palestine, especially Gaza. For decades the media has distorted or ignored what has been happening there. After October 7th ignoring it was no longer possible, here or anywhere.
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Ninety years of a life to end wars
H. Bruce Franklin, who was deeply involved in the movement against the Vietnam War, died earlier this month.
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The military-industrial complex is killing us all
Freeing ourselves from the monster destroying our planet and our futures.
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The U.S. empire isn’t a government that runs nonstop wars, it’s a nonstop war that runs a government
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the U.S. empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.
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NATO’s spiralling commitments to Ukraine risk catastrophe
We are on the possible verge of a major escalation in the war in the Ukraine, one which risks war between NATO and Russia, and one involving nuclear weapons, argues Chris Bambery.
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Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world
We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities
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‘We’re seeing Universities following a corporate agenda to get favor with donors’
CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom
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How Israeli prison doctors assist in the torture of Palestinian detainees
Israeli doctors share prisoners’ medical information with interrogators to “greenlight” torture, teach interrogators how to inflict pain without leaving physical marks, and even actively engage in acts of torture themselves.
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Western arms supplies to Ukraine prevent peaceful solutions
Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, was invited to brief the United Nations Security Council on May 20, 2024, as a civil society representative. The subject of the meeting was weapons supplies to Ukraine as a threat to peace and security.
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The resistible rise of the far right in Europe
In France, the far right is likely to be the leading political force in the European elections of 9 June 2024, and probably the second (or third) force in the European Union. A relatively large number of far right parties are now on the winning side in national elections, and are even taking part in national governments.
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Ontario Federation of Labour rallies with students at UofT encampment
As attacks kill yet more civilians in Rafah, students at their allies at UofT say they will not stop pressuring the university to divest from Israel.
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Hybrid wars in Latin America
Between June 13 and 15, the G7 Leaders Summit, the organization responsible for the neocolonial and financialist policies implemented at a global level, will be held in the Apulia region, in Italy.
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Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests
Germany’s students, labelled ‘terrorist sympathisers’ for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, say their right to free speech is under attack.
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The mutiny at Dominica, 9 April 1802
As a Black army of mercenaries from Kenya, Barbados, Jamaica, and elsewhere arrives to continue the West’s colonial project in Haiti, we remember the history of the 1802 mutiny of African soldiers at Dominica.
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Tariffs, technology and industrial policy
Last Tuesday, the trade and technology war launched by the U.S/.on China back in 2019 took another ratchet up.