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On a weekend of coordinated protests across Europe calling for and end to the war in Ukraine; Also – “Despair and Joy in Berlin”: on the biggest peace rally in Berlin in many, many years.
Measured by the federal poverty line, about 37 million Americans live below the poverty line—that’s about 11 percent of the population. But this leaves out many millions more Americans who live one emergency expense away from poverty.
A new imperialism stalks the Third World. The imperialists today rely on local elites eager to aid their peoples’ exploitation in return for a share of the spoils—a process sanitized with the language of investments, trade deals and partnerships.
Over the past three days, relentless Israeli airstrikes killed at least 45 Palestinians, including 16 children, and caused extensive devastation; Also: Events continue to demonstrate that Palestine cannot be made a marginal issue, however much Israel and the USA try.
Sri Lanka’s acute economic crisis and sovereign debt default, along with its people’s uprising in 2022, is described as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, that is, a harbinger of the likely future for other global south countries.
With no national force with the vision and power to offer an emancipatory alternative to the poisonous politics, sometimes with fascist elements, that turns neighbors against each other, the country is on a knife edge.
I find the best way to understand what happened in Xinjiang is to contrast it with Afghanistan. Why? Because they’re neighboring regions that faced very similar problems to which very different solutions were applied, with ultimately very different outcomes.
Interview with Black Agenda Report editor Margaret Kimberley about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, 246 years after they signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. She discusses the personal and institutional hypocrisy which allowed those who said, “All men are created to equal,” to be slaveholders.
The social organizations and trade unions, which called for the ongoing national strike in Panama, have signed an agreement with the right-wing government to reduce and freeze the price of fuel at USD 3.25 per gallon.
“Africa, China, and US Imperialism”: compares the US-Africa relationship and the China-Africa relationship. “Africa Remains at the Center of a 21st Century Cold War”: On the race between Russia, France and USA to influence the 1.3 billion people living in Africa.
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