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Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations fattening on the death and destruction of the Ukraine war.
The wilfulness, arrogance and irresponsibility of the six US Supreme Court judges, who voted to limit the authority of the EPA to issue rules stopping or limiting the release into the air of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are rapidly heating the planet, is staggering.
The U.S. is a “highly unusual society, in many ways,” says Noam Chomsky in this interview about the economic and political organization of the U.S. polity and the shockingly reactionary rulings of the Supreme Court on guns and abortion.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented, “Hitler rallied a significant part, if not most, of the European nations under his banner for a war against the Soviet Union… now, the EU together with NATO are forming another—modern—coalition for a standoff and, ultimately, war with the Russian Federation.”
Under capitalism, corporate dishonesty has become so commonplace that most of us take it for granted. In doing so, however, we’ve allowed ourselves to become numb to the breathtaking scale and bottomless arrogance of corporate deception.
Three journalists – Julian Assange, Alina Lipp and Anne-laure Bonnel – are paying a high price for telling the truth in the West: financial suffocation, censorship, threats and imprisonment, and even physical and psychological torture in the case of Assange. They illustrate the reality of “democracy” in the West.
In the wake of the highly expected overturning of ‘Roe v. Wade’, activists demonstrated their contempt in towns and cities across the country for the Supreme Court and its highly politicized conservative agenda in a National Day of Defiance.
The US dominates the Pacific Islands to an extent China can never hope to achieve. With Australia’s support, the US is now engaged in an arms build-up in its Pacific territories and de-facto colonies in a little known boost to its containment of China.
Despite being a wealthy nation, food insecurity in the USA remains high. In contrast, Nicaragua has worked on ending poverty for the last fifteen years. One of the most important strategies has been to develop food security, and today they have reached approximately 90% food security.
Five months of the revolutionary government, with eyes on the re-foundation of Honduras and watching their backs.
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