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Thousands of demonstrators took to Mali’s streets on January 14. What is the general context in which these demonstrations took place? What are the positions of the actors in the crisis? How did international actors react, including France and Russia?
The Military Intelligence Industrial Complex of the USA are serial murderers of our own citizens. They performed hundreds of experiments on unsuspecting Americans, and yet no one went to prison, and the organizations responsible continue to enjoy budgets of hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
While the Pentagon has committed to transitioning to biofuels for all its trucks, ships and aircraft, its plan to reduce emissions ignores the Pentagon’s continuing role in the annihilation of whales, in spite of the miraculous role that large cetaceans have played in delaying climate catastrophe and maintaining healthy marine ecosystems.
Letter signed by some of the world’s leading intellectuals calling upon the Biden administration to immediately end its cruel and inhumane policies towards Afghanistan, lift sanctions, unfreeze Afghanistan’s foreign assets, and increase humanitarian aid.
If we continue to wage the “war on evil” that George W. Bush began, we will continue to be part of that evil. Think about the millions of Afghans facing starvation in their shattered country, then imagine the consequences coming home.
The chain of suppression and exploitation of African nations is long, running from slavery and colonialism (including colonial extraction) to wealth and climate inequality, racial capitalism and now Covid vaccine apartheid.
Article discusses the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation that began in the 15th century. This part discusses the impact of globalisation since the 19th century.
A great new film, Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood tells us of the myriad ways in which the US military influences Hollywood into making films that effectively do propaganda for the military and the CIA. Film producers even agree to “weave in key talking points.”
President Ortega of Nicaragua has demonstrated through his continued victories, and through his forming of new alliances with countries like China, that times have changed; that it is now the US, with its crumbling empire, which must watch on the sidelines as countries like tiny Nicaragua chart their own futures.
Not only has Cuba succeeded in vaccinating 93% of its population, including children – a figure more than most developed countries – with its indigenously developed vaccines, it has also started sending these vaccines to other countries that have approved them.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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