Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.
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Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women
Malala’s “voice” has been turned into its opposite in the capitalist neocolonial economic model that extracts what is of use to it and puts it to a different purpose to serve its own agendas. She is now serving at the behest of her “handlers”—the white feminists who are poised to “save brown women from brown men.”
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US Suffocates Cuba for Unwavering, Victorious Anti-Imperialism at Great Cost
Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.
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Colombians Resume Protests Against Duque’s Far-Right Government
On August 26, as a part of a new national strike, thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country in rejection of a new tax reform bill promoted by the national government and in support of the ten bills presented by different sectors last month.
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The Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Is More About Politics than Science
Whatever Biden review finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitats.
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Fukushima: The Tragedy Is Going to Continue for Decades, if Not Centuries – Two Articles
Unclear if Fukushima Cleanup Can Finish by 2051: IAEA; Fukushima’s Lasting Tragedy.
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Blood in the Sand, Again
For decades, the American political class has intervened relentlessly and recklessly in countries whose people they hold in contempt. Once again they are being aided by America’s credulous mass media, which is uniformly blaming the Taliban victory on Afghanistan’s incorrigible corruption.
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Imagine a Nation Like This
Imagine a nation so reactionary and racist that “Black Lives Matter” is considered a “radical slogan” inside its borders. Imagine a nation so economically unequal that its top one-thousandth has more wealth than its bottom 90 percent…
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Afghanistan’s Socialist Years: the Promising Future Killed Off by U.S. Imperialism
While everyone is talking of the desperate situation of the Afghani people under the dictatorial Taliban, almost no one talks about the effort the Afghan people made in the late 1970s and ’80s to pull free of the legacy of incessantly warring tribes and feudal fiefdoms and start to build a modern democratic state.
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GPI vs. GDP: Does Size Matter More Than Substance?
U.S House Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) recently introduced a bill in Congress to overhaul GDP, the nation’s most watched economic indicator. She introduced the Genuine Progress Indicator (“GPI”) Act. It would be a significant change for the trajectory of the socio-economic system.
