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The nuclear threat endangers not only global peace and security but the very continuity of the human species, not to speak of the simple survival of life on Earth. How, you might wonder, could we ever have arrived at such a precarious situation?
From July 6 to 7, BRICS held its 17th annual summit in Rio de Janeiro. Against the backdrop of growing global polarization and open threats from the United States, the summit signalled that BRICS is no longer just a talking shop; it is becoming a force Washington can’t ignore.
Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees – stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
‘Juan Lenzo: “We Need to Integrate the Communal Economy to Face the Capitalist Maelstrom”’: A Venezuelan activist takes stock of the Communard Union’s present strengths and challenges, particularly in consolidating a communal economy. Also: ‘Venezuela’s Communal Project: An Interview with Ángel Prado’.
‘The Empire’s Strategic Failure: How the US-Israeli Assault on Iran Accelerated Imperial Decline’; ‘Proof that Israel Has Lost the War: “Sizable Portion of Military, Intelligence, Energy, and R&D Facilities Destroyed”’.
On the long-standing neocon plans to break up Iran and why this project is still seen as vital to preserving US dominance. Also: “Trump Advisor Admits: War on Iran Targets China, Seeking ‘US Global Dominance’”.
On the global banana trade, and how the United States is trying to make the commerce in bananas into a national security issue.
There’s long been a debate over whether Britain’s Empire—the largest the world has ever known—was a good or bad thing. There’s another question though—did it really end?
The author brings to the fore the silenced debilitating, malignant, and acute health consequences of NATO interventions due to its use of depleted uranium on the peoples who are bombed.
In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean War in a publication called Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War.
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