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Cuba’s Internationalist Legacy in Africa — Part I: Doctors of Liberation
African blood flows freely through our veins. We shall defend Angola and Africa! — Fidel Castro1 History remembers wars and generals, but too often forgets healers. Cuba’s internationalist mission in Africa began not with weapons, but with medicine. In the 1960s and 70s, as newly independent nations struggled to build health systems, Cuba sent doctors, […]
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Sheer Wickedness: Genocide in Gaza is Enabled by “Global Complicity,” Says UN
A new report, ‘Situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967’ by Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and her team in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, concludes that “the ongoing genocide in Gaza is a collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States” and is “facilitated through Third States’ […]
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The Highest Form of Democracy: The Grassroots Campaign of Yves Engler

The farce of Western regard for democracy has been revealed in several countries. Well known are the machinations of the Democratic National Commission to prevent the social democrat Bernie Sanders from becoming the leader of the so-called Democratic Party in the US. In the UK, there was the coalition of Labour Party insiders with Israeli […]
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The Truth about Nuclear Weapons

I am grateful for the invitation from The China Academy and its Thinkers’ Forum in Shanghai to shed light on the dark logic behind nuclear weapons—their possession, their use, their philosophy. (I know of no Western media that would extend such an invitation to me). This creed of “nuclearism” is not a strategy; it’s a […]
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BBC on the Rack
So Trump suddenly threatens to sue the BBC for $1 billion for a misleading splice-up of video clips broadcast over a year ago. A BBC news editor — Raffi Berg — is suing journalist Owen Jones for exposing his biased judgement in reporting Gaza war news. And two top knobs at the BBC, Director-General Tim […]
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The Gallery of Ghouls of Last Stage US Empire

The face of last stage empire on display at a Mar-a-Lago event: The human psyche’s lexicon is imagistic in nature. The psyche speaks in visual metaphors. At empire’s end, the psyche becomes an artist of the absurd. Hence, the nature of the zeitgeist will be limned by means of fashion, form, and feature into emblems […]
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A State Betrayed
The 27th Amendment rewrites Pakistan’s rules and hands its courts and army to the powerful few. According to Santiago Canton, the ICJ Secretary General, the 27th amendment introduces changes that raise serious concern. He warns that these shifts could weaken the courts’ role in checking executive power and compromise the basic rights of people in […]
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Competing for Emissions: The COP Candidate Contest
It’s so silly as to be depraved. Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for hosting rights to an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than it resolves to limiting them. But this is exactly what Australia and Türkiye are doing regarding the Conference of Parties (COP) for […]
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Max Blumenthal : The MAGA Divide: Israel, Epstein, and Kirk Split Trump’s Base
The prison rape scandal in Israel; is there a defect, an effect of this on domestic policy that Netanyahu’s administration refuses to condemn what every other government in the world condemns, the forcible race rape of a helpless victim? This is a this is a major domestic issue in Israel, a major domestic story. The […]
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The Difference Between The US Empire And The British Empire
The difference between people who supported the British Empire and people who support the US Empire is that those who supported the British Empire knew they were supporting an empire. Someone who supported the British Empire’s acts of mass military slaughter around the world did so because they supported the Crown and wanted His Majesty […]