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Commemorating Mummy: Reflections on Mother’s Day
Commercial gimmicks are sometimes impossible to beat off. Their stench and pull follow, even as you look the other way. One occasion is most prominent in this regard. Nostrils get clogged and eyes get fogged, and the message is this: Remember Mommy. Mothers’ Day is rarely more than the draw and pull of extracted business […]
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Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in Genocide
This visual exposes Britain’s extensive collaboration with Israel’s genocide in Gaza. British military forces, arms manufacturers, and industries provide supply lines and military parts that Israel depends on to continue its aggression against Palestinians. While Israeli jets reduce Gaza to rubble, Britain’s politicians bypass their own laws regulating weapons sales to keep these planes flying. The […]
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Who is Captain Ibrahim Traoré?
From Samori Touré to Thomas Sankara [left], our ancestors chose resistance. Now, we must choose: either we fight for sovereignty, or we remain slaves to neo-colonialism. — captain Ibrahim Traoré [right], Interview with Radio Omega FM, November 2023 A young, by political standards, military captain, now an acting president has captured widespread admiration in Burkina […]
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The Origins of SARS-CoV-2
China’s government released its white paper on tracing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, wherein it stated: The US should cease from shifting blame and evading responsibility, stop finding external excuses for its internal malaise, and genuinely reflect on and overhaul its public health policies. The US cannot continue to turn a deaf ear to the numerous […]
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The Election of Pope Leo XIV
The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it. It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first century where ancient ceremony, the old boy network – many presumptive virgins – along with festive dressing up, were seen with admiration rather than suspicion. Feminists were nowhere to […]
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Beyond Socialist Purity
Orientation International political economy at a crossroads As most of you know the world economy is peppered with fault lines. On one hand we have the rising in the East of a new economic block, the BRICS nations and their friends. On the other hand, in the West we have a rapidly declining Yankeedom and […]
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AI is a Perfect Storm Threatening Humanity
© Getty Images/XH4D The global economy was already navigating a minefield of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) when US President Donald J. Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs reverberated across international markets. This aggressive escalation of trade barriers, including a mélange of sudden rate hikes, retaliatory measures, and rhetorical brinkmanship, didn’t just amplify the chaos; it […]
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Abortion Abolitionists All-Out Campaign to Ban Mifepristone
Operation Rolling Thunder was a sustained U.S. bombing campaign over Vietnam. The Rolling Thunder Revue was a 1975–76 madcap concert tour headed by Bob Dylan, featuring extraordinary musicians and collaborators. Now, there’s a new “Rolling Thunder”; a maximalist anti-abortion campaign aimed at pressuring the Trump administration, the FDA, Congress and the courts to ban the use […]
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America’s Great Brain Drain
A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ was in this program. — French President Emmanuel Macron, Choose Europe for Science Event/Paris, May 5, 2025 America’s shores are experiencing a huge sucking sound as […]
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