Paraguayan Youth Fight to Defend Affordable Education
Education subsidy funding changes has sparked mass protests in Paraguay. A weeks-long occupation of Paraguay’s largest university forced the right-wing government to the table.
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Will We Ever Wake Up to the Realities of World War II and See Where They Have Long Been Leading?
“My military experiences turned me eternally against the monstrosity of war and militarism and propelled me on a quest to understand the wars of America. This article is a basic summary of the U.S-Japanese War after a lifelong inquiry into the realities of American entry into World War II.”
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Students Rise Up in the US Against Israel’s Genocide of Gazans – 3 Articles
Opposing the War Machine Is Cool Again, and the Empire’s Getting Nervous; War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young; The Nation’s Conscience.
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Ghosts of ’68
Militarized police raids cannot vanquish the ghosts of ’68. Thanks to student organizers, along with a critical minority of professors, intellectuals and human rights activists, people across the US are mobilizing in defence of first-amendment rights and against Israel’s genocide of Gazans. They are making history, and they know it.
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Countdown Begins for Russia’s Ukraine Offensive
The US and its G7 partners are in panic mode. They lack conviction about Ukraine’s capability to disrupt the momentum of a major Russian offensive that is widely expected in summer. There is even a sense of dark foreboding that the Ukrainian military may simply pack up in the coming months.
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Labor in Guatemala Sees a Glimmer of Hope
There is a sense of hope among Guatemala’s small labor movement of better days ahead following the election of President Bernardo Arévalo in 2023. While workers continue to face a dire situation, there is hope as the Arévalo administration is taking steps to improve working conditions in the country.
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A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)
Chomsky wrote this piece 14 years ago, in April 2010. Its subject was the devastation Israel was causing in Gaza, and on that country’s “criminal siege” of Gaza. Not much different from the situation today.
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From the Siege of Leningrad to the Siege of Gaza: Colonialist Mentality
Eighty years ago, Soviet forces lifted the siege of Leningrad after ferocious battles. Commemoration of the siege of Leningrad should prompt us to put an end to all racism, to stop the siege of Gaza and to prevent such atrocities in the future.
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At Dien Bien Phu
Dien Bien Phu was one of the decisive battles of the post-1945 era. Not since the British were turfed out of Afghanistan in the 19th century had an indigenous army inflicted so resounding a defeat on a colonial power.
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Why Israel’s War Is Genocide — and Why Biden Is Culpable; Also: ‘The Silence of the Damned’.
Israel has made no secret of it: it has embarked on a genocidal plan to “create conditions where life in Gaza becomes unsustainable.” And Joe Biden is its accomplice. Also: Those refusing to denounce this genocide – history will not judge them kindly.
