‘We Love Life If We Find a Way to It’: Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish’s Enduring Absences
The path to enduring peace is through remembering the humanity of others, especially those who may be on the other end of our political beliefs.
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Largest Pro-Palestine Protests in History; Growing Diplomatic Backlash Against Israel’s War on Gaza – 3 Articles
‘The Largest Pro-Palestinian Protest in U.S. History was “a Turning Point.” Now it’s Spreading’; ‘Hundreds of Thousands Join London March to Demand ‘Cease-Fire Now’ in Gaza’; Also: Increasing number of countries breaking ties with Israel in protest over its intense assault on Gaza.
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Genocide of Palestinians by Israel, One of World’s Most Militarized Countries, No Surprise
Israel is a settler-colonial power that was founded in a paroxysm of violence in 1948 and has initiated conflict dozens of times since then. Diplomacy, compromise and negotiation are simply not part of its DNA.
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The Horror, the Horror
There are no words to express what we are witnessing. In the five weeks of horror this is one of the pinnacles of horror. President Joe Biden will go down in history as an accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of the thousands of children he has participated in murdering haunt him for the rest of his life.
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The Power of Human Solidarity
The tide of anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish sentiment throughout the world, which seems to be on the rise, demands a historical revision of relations between Muslims and Jews. An almost forgotten episode during World War II can shed light on this issue.
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India, US are on Pathway to Contain China
The big picture is that after audaciously claiming the mantle of leadership of the Global South as recently as in September, in a span of over two months, India is gliding over to the American camp as the US’ indispensable ally, even aspiring to be a “global defence hub” with Pentagon’s help.
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Actual U.S. Military Spending Reached $1.537 Trillion in 2022—More than Twice Acknowledged Level
For decades, it has been recognized by independent researchers that actual U.S. military spending is approximately twice the officially acknowledged level. In 2022, actual U.S. military spending reached $1.537 trillion—more than twice the officially acknowledged level of $765.8 billion.
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CFA Franc System in Francophone Africa: A Tool of French Financial Imperialism
French colonial foundations suffered a huge blow in the early 1960s. However, its main tool of the economic exploitation, the CFA franc financial system, resisted the decolonization wave. This article analyses French imperialism through a study of the CFA franc system.
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Myanmar’s Junta Appears to Be in a Death Spiral as Resistance Fighters Gain Ground
Nearly three years after seizing power, the military has lost control of most of the country.
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We are Spartacus
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
