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BY NOAM CHOMSKY – VIJAY PRASHAD Cuba, a country of 11 million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the United States government for over six decades. Despite this embargo, Cuba’s people have been able to transcend the indignities of hunger, ill health, and illiteracy, all three being social plagues that continue to trouble much…
By Alex Henderson Democratic President Joe Biden, now 80, has long considered himself a centrist, taking pride in his ability to make bipartisan deals with Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, President Ronald Reagan and other conservative Republicans during his decades in the U.S. Senate. Biden has always supported elements of President Franklin…
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U.S.-Russia negotiations will not be easy, but a genuine commitment to resolve differences will create a new context in which a genuine peacemaking process can find momentum. MEDEA BENJAMIN NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES Jan 25, 2023 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just issued its 2023 Doomsday Clock statement, calling this “a time of unprecedented…
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The celebration of King’s official legacy as a cuddly figure of unity and tolerance serves to erase his politics from public memory. Simon Waxman Each year, the Martin Luther King holiday brings with it a barrage of citations and encomia. Yesterday was no exception. His least controversial words were quoted and contorted to suit every…
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By Marjorie Cohn , TRUTHOUT “[T]he current U.S. government, the one of Joseph Biden, of all those that the Cuban Revolution has known, is the one that has most aggressively and effectively applied the economic blockade,” Carlos Fernández de Cossío, vice minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, declared in a speech on December 14. “It is the one that punishes…
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KWANZAA IS A WAY FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO REFLECT, UNITE, AND CELEBRATE OUR CULTURE. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN SPEND THIS WEEKLONG HOLIDAY. BY MALAIKA JABALI · UPDATED DECEMBER 26, 2022 Now that the Christmas rush has settled, Kwanzaa is here to help us reflect and embrace our culture. A solid grand closing to the year, the weeklong cultural celebration is…
Trump kept downplaying its severity and assuring Americans there was nothing to worry about. THOM HARTMANN DEC 13, 2022 April 7, 2020 was the day everything changed in America. And hardly anybody realizes it. The most unreported story of the pandemic, the one that seems destined to be overlooked as histories are being written, is…
Based upon the trauma we are putting on the planet, it will become more difficult – and more expensive – to guarantee safe water to residents. JAMALA ROGERS – DEC 13, 2022 When I became politically aware that water was a commodity, I was outraged. As a kid, you turn on the tap, you jump…
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A Glass of Water Could Cost More Than a Cup of Starbucks Coffee” »
Written By – Vijay Prashad | José Carlos Llerena Robles | Globetrotter| December 14, 2022 On December 7, 2022, Pedro Castillo sat in his office on what would be the last day of his presidency of Peru. His lawyers went over spreadsheets that showed Castillo would triumph over a motion in Congress to remove him….
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The first ten days were soccer as it is, rather than as you want it to be. By Sam Knight – December 3, 2022 Asmiling ghost came up through the floor. La’eeb, the mascot of this year’s World Cup, in Qatar, is a bodiless figure in a thobe, the white gown favored by the men of…
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