Educating for the Future: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis (Part III)
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Educating for the Future: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis (Part III)

ByCira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert

In this third and final part on the Che Guevara Commune of Venezuela, a look at the Commune’s efforts to provide social assistance to the community at a time when US imposed sanctions are interfering with educational and health services in the country.

The US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Nuclear Waste
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The US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Nuclear Waste

ByCharles Pekow

The US has no coherent plan in place to manage nuclear waste from weapons manufacturing piling up at more than 150 sites. The estimated cost of handling has gone up to $512 billion at last count; and, the waste will have to somehow remain safely stored for 10,000 years or more …

Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue
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Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue

ByRichard Falk and David Krieger

The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.

Global Warming Impacting Arctic and Antarctic; Permafrost Also Melting: Earth on Cusp of Catastrophe – Three Articles
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Global Warming Impacting Arctic and Antarctic; Permafrost Also Melting: Earth on Cusp of Catastrophe – Three Articles

ByMatthew Druckenmiller et al.; Robert Hunziker; Alfred W. McCoy

2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption; What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?; Climate Crisis at the Top of the World: Global Orders and Catastrophic Change.

U.S. Shouldn’t Be Invited to Summit for Democracy, Let Alone Be its Host
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U.S. Shouldn’t Be Invited to Summit for Democracy, Let Alone Be its Host

ByAlexander Rubinstein

While opting to snub Russia and China from the summit, the US has invited many countries which can hardly be classified as democratic: from apartheid Israel, to Brazil, whose leader Jair Bolsonaro this summer declared that “only God can oust me.”

UN and AU Endorse Sudan’s Coup Government, the Streets Do Not
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UN and AU Endorse Sudan’s Coup Government, the Streets Do Not

ByPavan Kulkarni

Protesters are not convinced by the UN and AU’s position that democracy can be won by accepting a government where the real levers of power are held by the military while a cabinet of technocrats is paraded before the international community to maintain the facade of ‘joint military-civilian rule’.