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Two big regional developments took place last week — the announcement of the AUKUS, security alliance of three “maritime democracies” on September 15; and Iran’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as full member on September 17.
Scratch the surface of African history and you’ll find Canadian involvement in colonial rule. This country’s role in the impoverishment of Ghana and Africa in general deserves far greater attention.
The rise of industrial capitalism was accompanied by a complex transformation of rural society wherein most people were separated from the land, and land was concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority. It happened in different ways and at different times in different parts of the world, and is still going on today.
Vaccine costs have pushed many developing countries to the end of the Covid-19 vaccination queue. Worse, less vaccinated poor nations cannot afford fiscal efforts to provide relief or stimulate recovery. Plus: Cuba: The First Country in the World to Vaccinate Children Under 12.
For the last two months, the Mapuche Elisa Loncon has presided over the constituent assembly in charge of writing the new Chilean constitution that will replace the Pinochet era constitution. In this interview, Loncon talks about the threats and challenges faced by the Constitutional Convention.
Arguing for the legal standing of nature was greeted as ridiculous in the 1970s. But now the idea is catching on.
This is a story of victory for the earth and of the end of the Keystone XL pipeline. It also involves the Dakota Access pipeline and the Standing Rock Lakota reservation, indeed the entire world, all of which is threatened by our desperate last burst of fossil fuel exploitation.
Communal gardens and farming enterprises are the beginning of sustainable food sovereignty in South Africa, but a basic income grant is essential to address hunger in the shorter term.
Noam Chomsky pointedly elaborates in a breathtaking interview that the outcome of the 20-year war on terror, which ended with the Taliban’s return to power, has been disastrous on multiple fronts, and also reveals the massive level of hypocrisy that belies the actions of the global empire.
Scientists have spent decades writing papers, advising government, briefing the press, regarding the climate crisis: all have failed. Now, they need to wage a rebellion… They must do whatever is possible to halt the greatest destruction in human history.
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