World Condemns Shireen Abu Akleh’s Murder by Israeli Security Forces
Over 20 progressive news outlets, including TeleSUR TV and Pan African TV, have signed a statement condemning the assassination of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
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The Yugoslav Wars and the Role of NATO
NATO framed its intervention in the Yugoslav wars as “humanitarian”, but their bombings and declaration of a “no-fly zone” resulted in the death of countless civilians.
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Imperialism | Online Blog | Russia | USA
Taking Aim at Putin: Stephen Cohen Contests the Myths
To help sort through the miasma surrounding the demonization of Vladimir Putin and the frenzied relentlessness of anti-Russia hysteria, a look at the late Stephen F. Cohen’s book, War with Russia? From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy
Time for a “Strategic Pause” on Corporate Welfare to Profitable Companies
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on April 6, 2022, called for a “strategic pause” on corporate welfare to profitable companies during remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Text of his speech.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Razors, Razors, Razors
Review of Vincent Bevins’ book, ‘The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World’. The CIA called the massacre “one of the ghastliest and most concentrated bloodlettings of current times.”
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Iran Makes Gains; Afghanistan Braces for a New War – Two Articles
Afghanistan Braces for New War; Iran Makes Gains as Israel, Turkey Test Moscow’s Limits on Ukraine.
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The History of Western Sahara Is a History of Betrayal
In a fresh betrayal, Spain is once again denying the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination. In a letter addressed to the Moroccan king in March this year, the Spanish government has made clear that it will not respect its historic obligation to support the self-determination of the Sahrawi people.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Why US Culture of Colonial Extraction Is Making People Sick, Destroying Planet
Discussion with physician Rupa Marya about Deep medicine, which is “a way of understanding how social structures are making us sick and working to redesign those structures—as opposed to shallow medicine, which always points at the cause and the locus of suffering inside one person or one individual.”
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From Rachel Carson to Monsanto: The Silence of Spring
June 2022 marks 60 years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s iconic book ‘Silent Spring’, that documented the adverse impact of indiscriminate use of pesticides on the environment. Since then, Monsanto has mounted a deceitful defence of its health- and environment-damaging pesticides and orchestrated toxic smear campaigns against Carson and other scientist campaigners.
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Beyond Eurocentrism
In this book, Amin argues that the story of capitalism emerging from endogenous European characteristics of rationality and triumph – which continues to dominate social theory – is distorting. It disguises the true nature of the capitalist system, including the role of imperialism and racism in its history.
