Peruvians Take Over Lima, Continuing to Pressure Boluarte Coup Regime
Seven months in, and in the face of brutal state repression, the people of Peru continue their struggle against the neoliberal dictatorship of the Boluarte coup regime.
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That Other War: Struggle and Suffering in Sudan
With the world’s attention focused on Ukraine, almost no one has noticed a devastating civil war in Africa.
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Healing the Wounds of War in Vietnam
War is much more than a memory for Việt people who continue to navigate a landscape of unexploded ordnance and chemical contamination. All wars are fought endlessly in the bodies, minds, and lands of those who are invaded as well as those who fight.
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On the Journalists Who Have Failed to Defend Julian Assange
The failure of too many in the mainstream press is not only inexcusable, but ominous.
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2.4 Billion People Did Not Have Constant Access to Food, Hunger Stunts 148 Million Children, Says UN Report
Approximately 2.4 billion individuals, largely women and residents of rural areas, did not have consistent access to nutritious, safe, and sufficient food in 2022, said UN’s latest report. As many as 783 million faced hunger, and 148 million children suffered from stunted growth.
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A Brutal Colonial Legacy Is Tinder for the Fires That are Sweeping Across France
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has rightly said, “This is a moment for the country to seriously address the deep issues of racism and discrimination in law enforcement.”
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AI Isn’t Likely to Enslave Humanity, But it Could Take Over Many Aspects of Our Lives.
AI won’t blow up the world. But the increasingly uncritical embrace of it, in a variety of narrow contexts, means the gradual erosion of some of humans’ most important skills.
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From Iran, Syria and Afghanistan to Ukraine: U.S. Empire Sows Violence and Chaos Yet Again
Kovalik writes, “It is my belief, which I have come to over many years, and after travelling to places like Syria, Iran and Lebanon, that the U.S. and its allies are a force for chaos and destruction in the world.” It is in this context that “the conflict in Ukraine must be judged …”
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Modi’s US Visit: Beyond Optics, the Substance Is Not Much to Crow About
The US effort is to wean away India from its present conciliatory approach towards China as soon as possible, and gradually secure a foothold for US forces on the sub-continent as contemplated in the Joint Statement. Also: “Modi’s US Visit Has Increased India’s Vulnerabilities”.
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U.S. Empire Named Most Murderous Killing Machine in History
A new book by David Michael Smith, ‘Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire’ (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023), estimates that the U.S. empire is responsible, or shares responsibility, for close to 300 million deaths.
