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    The Grayzone

  • As conservatives ramp up opposition to Ukraine war, Dems dodge The Grayzone
    As a budget showdown looms in Congress, MAGA Republicans are alone in challenging the vast quantities of American weapons and cash being funneled to Kiev, with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warning The Grayzone that increasing escalation could turn the proxy war into a “potential nuclear conflict.” When approached for comment,... Read more »
  • Nazigate: Canada’s top general won’t apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet
    As Canada’s top officials express embarrassment for honoring a WWII Nazi collaborator in parliament, the leader of the country’s military, Gen. Wayne Eyre, refuses to apologize for his standing ovation. The Canadian military has trained Ukraine’s notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion for years. Canadian politicians have been in frantic damage control... Read more »
  • Canada’s honoring of Nazi vet exposes Ottawa’s longstanding Ukraine policy
    By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a “hero,” Canada’s Liberal Party highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans. Canada’s second most powerful official, Chrystia Freeland, is the granddaughter of one of Nazi Germany’s top Ukrainian... Read more »
  • Amnesty International pushes regime change in Eritrea with dubious, unverifiable report
    Amnesty’s new report accusing Eritrea’s government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West’s campaign to topple the country’s independent government. Eritrea is a small country with a geostrategically significant coast on the Red... Read more »
  • Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand 
    The author of letters to social media companies demanding the financial punishment of Russell Brand is a British lawmaker implicated in London’s war on Covid-19 and Ukraine dissenters. Her husband was a commander in the Army’s psy-ops division. Allegations of sexual impropriety and abuse by comedian and podcaster Russell Brand... Read more »
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    MintPress News

  • Mahmoud Abbas at the UN: A Global Betrayal of Palestine’s Struggle for Justice
    Mahmoud Abbas has not only betrayed the Palestinian cause for his own gain, he has paved the way for Israel's legitimacy in the Arab world, argues Israeli human rights activist Miko Peled. The post Mahmoud Abbas at the UN: A Global Betrayal of Palestine’s Struggle for Justice appeared first on... Read more »
  • VideoRevealed: How Thousands of Ukrainian Nazis Were Smuggled Into Canada after WW2
    MintPress founder Mnar Adley argues that Canada's celebration of a Ukrainian Nazi in parliament continues its historical legacy of hosting Nazis post-World War II and arming Nazi-linked fascists in Ukraine. The post Revealed: How Thousands of Ukrainian Nazis Were Smuggled Into Canada after WW2 appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »
  • I Was the Only US Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program — Because I Opposed It
    The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it — John Kiriakou. The post I Was the Only US Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program — Because I Opposed It appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »
  • Ghosts of the Past: For Israel, War on UNESCO is an Existential Battle
    For Israel, recognition by UNESCO of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine complicates its mission of erasing Palestine, physically and figuratively, from existence. The post Ghosts of the Past: For Israel, War on UNESCO is an Existential Battle appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »
  • Files Expose Syrian ‘Revolution’ as Western Regime Change Operation
    In light of renewed protests in Syria, Kit Klarenberg examines files from the Central Crisis Management Cell. Dubbed "The Assad Files" by mainstream media, the files reveal intricate planning and management of Syria's 2011 'revolution' by Western powers. The post Files Expose Syrian ‘Revolution’ as Western Regime Change Operation appeared... Read more »


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    chomsky.info: The Noam Chomsky Website

  • VideoNoam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress (Ep. 182)
    Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress (Ep. 182) Noam Chomsky Interviewed on Conversations with Tyler  June 14, 2023. Conversations with Tyler.  Noam Chomsky joins Tyler to discuss why Noam and Wilhelm von Humboldt have similar views on language and liberty, good and bad evolutionary approaches to language, what he thinks... Read more »
  • Chomsky and Pollin: Just Transition Can Stop Earth From Becoming Uninhabitable
    Chomsky and Pollin: Just Transition Can Stop Earth From Becoming Uninhabitable Noam Chomsky Interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou June 7, 2023. Truthout.  Climate change is “making our planet uninhabitable,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in late March. Indeed, the threats of the impending climate crisis have become very tangible, and the world’s top scientists... Read more »
  • Exclusive: GT’s interview with American linguist Noam Chomsky
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  • Current US policies toward China are outrageous: Noam Chomsky
    Current US policies toward China are outrageous: Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Global Times June 6, 2023. Global Times. Editor’s Note: At 94 years old, Noam Chomsky (Chomsky) is as vocal as ever. As a renowned American linguist and public intellectual, he constantly appears on the media talking about US... Read more »
  • Chomsky: Europe May Face Decline, Deindustrialization by Staying in ‘US-Dominated System’
    Chomsky: Europe May Face Decline, Deindustrialization by Staying in ‘US-Dominated System’ Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Sputnik  May 31, 2023. Sputnik.  Europe will experience a likely decline and deindustrialization if it chooses to stay within the system dominated by the United States, renowned US academic and philosopher Noam Chomsky told Sputnik. “Europe... Read more »
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    Novara Media

  • Rishi Sunak’s Bizarre Car Culture War, GB News in Civil War
    Rishi Sunak’s first conference speech as Tory Party leader will reportedly be a big pitch to motorists. Plus: GB News descends into civil war; and Suella Braverman has been caught out telling racist lies. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.... Read more »
  • VideoYears Later, Wildfires Blaze on in Survivors’ Minds
    “The little one seems OK because he’s only six,” says Fina, speaking to South African photographer Gideon Mendel. “But Christian is having issues. He gets very angry and then he’s anxious. He’s been really sad in the last few weeks.” Fina and her family narrowly escaped death in New South... Read more »
  • Dan Wootton Sacked by MailOnline, Moya Lothian-McLean Exposes Media Misogyny
    Following a misogynistic rant by Laurence Fox on his GB News show, Dan Wootton has been sacked as a MailOnline columnist. Plus: Labour make yet another U-turn; and police forces have been found to be misusing their bodycams. With Moya Lothian-McLean and Emma Dabiri.... Read more »
  • The Other Enlightenment
    For the second episode of our series on class, writer and broadcaster Kenan Malik takes us through three centuries of thought to explain the origins of identity politics. It all starts with Haitian Revolution and its contribution to what is now called the radical Enlightenment – a movement that sought... Read more »
  • The Biggest Gang in Britain: How Police Solidarity Facilitates Violence and Abuse
    Over the weekend, some 300 police officers turned in permits allowing them to carry weapons after their colleague was charged with the murder of Chris Kaba.  Before the verdict last week, five close colleagues of the accused officer – who shot 24-year-old Kaba dead through his car windscreen in September... Read more »

 


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    CounterPunch.org

  • Roaming Charges: Our Man in Jersey
    I’ve been re-reading with great pleasure John Le Carré’s mid-80s novel A Perfect Spy, which is a kind of roman à clef about the writer’s turbulent relationship with his father, Ronnie Cornwell, an extravagant trickster and confidence artist, who, in one of his most elaborate hoaxes, ended up running for... Read more »
  • “I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been”:  Musings on Communism and Anti-Communism
    March 2024 will be the seventieth anniversary of Edward R. Murrow’s 1954 See It Now program that kicked McCarthy’s butt all over the TV screen. Murrow ended with these words: “The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to... Read more »
  • More at Stake for Auto Workers Than Wages and Benefits
    The United Auto Workers have struck now for two weeks. Using a novel strategy to keep management on its toes, namely walking out at various plants at unexpected times, a new, different union leadership hopes to wrest some benefits from the claws of a monstrously greedy industry that has already... Read more »
  • The Trial of Subhas Nair: Race, Class, and Ideology in Singapore
    On Tuesday, July 18, 2023, Subhas Govin Prabhakar Nair, the Indian Singaporean rapper more commonly known as Subhas, was found guilty on four counts of “promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of race and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony” under section 298A(a) of the Penal Code 1871.... Read more »
  • Empty Chair Diplomacy 2.0 at the United Nations
    The game of musical chairs is popular with children. If the child’s game is based on successfully sitting on a chair when the music stops, recent diplomacy at the U.N. has been focused on empty chairs. Empty chair diplomacy goes back to French President Charles de Gaulle when the French... Read more »
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    Yanis Varoufakis

  • Bill Black and Yanis Varoufakis discussing corruption in finance – video
    Invited and chaired by Patrick Lovell (director of The Con), in this video Bill Black and I discuss financial corruption in the USA and the EU. Bill Black needs no introduction. As a lawyer he filed over 1700 indictments for financial corruption in the US, from the S&L scandal to this... Read more »
  • Why can’t the EU power ahead with green subsidies like Biden’s? It isn’t just political procrastination – THE GUARDIAN
    Inglorious procrastination is one of the European Union’s standard responses to major crises. This is not merely due to the difficulty of getting twenty-seven Prime Ministers and Presidents to agree. It is also because of their motivated tendency to ask themselves the wrong questions, thus heading slowly but inexorably to... Read more »
  • Technofeudalism has just arrived… Read the Preface here
    Just laid my hands on the first copy of TECHNOFEUDALISM – What killed capitalism. Good feeling. There is no substitute for physicality. Below, I copy the Preface and Table of Contents to offer you a whiff of the argument and style. I believe it will be in UK bookshops at... Read more »
  • Europe’s Fading Democracy – Project Syndicate op-ed
    The European Union has long suffered from a democratic deficit, owing to the absence of a united European polity that can hold EU political institutions accountable. In recent years, three developments have all but destroyed the idea of the EU as an effective force for good within and beyond Europe.... Read more »
  • What’s behind this summer’s unnaturally huge Greek forest fires – UNHERD
    My grandmother had the theory that, as we get older, our mind subconsciously cleanses our memories of a myriad misfortunes, leaving a sanitised version of the past for us to feel nostalgic about. The optimism of remembrance, she called it. Little did she know that her reasonable hypothesis would, one... Read more »

 

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    🏴 Anarchist Federation

  • Renewable Energy is (Mostly) Green and Not Inherently Capitalist, Volume 1: Wind Power
    By Steve Ongerth – IWW Eco Union Caucus, October 1, 2023 Is renewable energy actually green? Are wind, solar, and storage infrastructure projects a climate and/or envi­ronmental solution or are they just feel-good, greenwashing, false “solutions” that either perpetuate the... Read more... Read more »
  • Join #BravermanOut Twitterstorm: Tue 3 Oct, 1-2pm, during her speech at Tory conference #RefugeesWelcome
    Stand Up To Racism is calling on all anti racists to join a #BravermanOut Twitterstorm on Tuesday 3 October between 1pm and 2pm. Join the Twitterstorm from your workplace, college, school or community and help get #BravermanOut trending, along with... Read more... Read more »
  • Review: Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History
    This collection of essays by American Academic and Trotskyist Paul Le Blanc has little of interest for anarchists or, indeed, anyone who is not a Trotskyist. For the latter, this collection of essays which seek to highlight Marxist influences in... Read more... Read more »
  • Besançon (Doubs) France :For Anarchist Comrade Boris’s wheelchair is on its way!
    Besançon (Doubs): Boris’s wheelchair is on its way! At the beginning of July, we urgently re-launched our appeal for financial support for the purchase of a custom-made electric wheelchair for Boris. As a reminder, Boris is the anarchist comrade from... Read more... Read more »
  • Activists disrupt bomb factory’s open day
    Teledyne e2V in Chelmsford Essex, a part of the Teledyne Technologies Group — the largest supplier of weapons from Britain to the Israeli regime, opened its doors to students on 28th September 2023 as a recruitment drive to coincide with National... Read more... Read more »
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    The Anarchist Library

  • Edited by Ching-In Chen, Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - The Revolution Starts at Home
    Author: Edited by Ching-In Chen, Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaTitle: The Revolution Starts at HomeSubtitle: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist CommunitiesDate: 2016Notes: Cover art: Cristy RoadLayout: Kenji LiuFor more information or to request copies of The Revolution Starts at Home, email revolutionathome@riseup.netSource: Retrieved on 2023 September 25 from https://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Revolution-starts-at-home-zine.pdf I... Read more »
  • Ariane Miéville and José Luis García González - New rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism
    Author: Ariane Miéville and José Luis García GonzálezTitle: New rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalismDate: 2023Notes: Machine translated. Corrections made by a librarian.Source: Retrieved on September 23th, 2023 from libertamen.wordpress.com/2023/09/24/nueva-ruptura-en-el-anarcosindicalismo-espanol-2023-ariane-mieville-y-jose-luis-garcia-gonzalez. Spanish anarcho-syndicalism has suffered a new rupture. The crisis had been brewing for a long time. It came to an end between... Read more »
  • Mikheil Gogatishvili - Dictatorship and Theory
    Author: Mikheil GogatishviliTitle: Dictatorship and TheorySubtitle: Varlam Cherkezishvili’s Critic of Social-Democratic MovementDate: 2015Notes: Spelling and grammatical errors retained from original text.Source: Retrieved on 23rd September 2023 from d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net Abstract The central question on which Varlam Cherkezishvili focuses attention is authoritarian character philosophy of Marx and Engels. This theory in the... Read more »
  • Adrian Riskin - Anarchism isn’t a fantasy and it’s not a political theory
    Author: Adrian RiskinTitle: Anarchism isn’t a fantasy and it’s not a political theorySubtitle: It’s a collective name for whatever forms of society can exist without murder as a political toolDate: February 19, 2023Source: chez-risk.in/2023/02/19/anarchism-isnt-a-fantasy-and-its-not-a-political-theory-its-a-collective-name-for-whatever-forms-of-society-can-exist-without-murder-as-a-political-tool When people say anarchism is a fantasy I believe they’re thinking of the apparent impossibility of... Read more »
  • Alex Riccio - The militant minority will not save the labor movement
    Author: Alex RiccioTitle: The militant minority will not save the labor movementDate: September 2023Source: Retrieved on 2023-09-2 from organizing.work/2023/09/the-militant-minority-will-not-save-the-labor-movement Amidst high profile free speech battles in the early 1910s, the Agricultural Workers Organization of the IWW banned the practice of “soapboxing.” Rather than spend time and resources on legal defense... Read more »

John Kiriakou

 

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    Middle East Monitor

  • The Turks are winning the new Great Game at the Caspian
    One region where events seem to have been developing at breakneck speed over the past few years is that of Nagorno-Karabakh, the former Armenian-dominated breakaway republic which – despite being internationally-recognised as Azerbaijani territory – had been ruled by Armenian militants with support from Yerevan over the past three decades.... Read more »
  • IAEA votes to deal with Palestine as a state
    The General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has adopted a resolution to consider Palestine as a state, news agencies reported on Friday. According to Al Sharq Al Awsat newspaper, this came as the IAEA’s members voted on a draft-resolution to officially adopt the designation of “State of... Read more »
  • The UN’s acquiescence to erasing Palestine
    Erasing Palestine is what the Zionist colonial project is about. At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu illustrated the aim by showing a map of Greater Israel – completely eliminating the existence of Gaza and the occupied West Bank – the only remaining fragments of... Read more »
  • Syria: ICJ to begin hearings on Assad regime crimes
    The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced on Thursday that it will start hearings on the case of the Syrian regime’s crimes against Syrians. In a statement, the ICJ said that it will hold public hearings in the case concerning the Application of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,... Read more »
  • Halevi warns of harm to Israel army prowess due to political division
    Israel Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi announced on Thursday that people are mistaken if they think the army can operate as normal with society being deeply divided, The Times of Israel reported. “An argument that leaves behind it a polarising divisive rift within Israeli society is dangerous,” Halevi stressed.... Read more »
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    Craig Murray

  • Grayzone Interview with Max Blumenthal
    This covers a lot of ground – Assange, Ellsberg, Skripal, Salmond, Taiwan and more. My highlight was getting to point out that China cannot “invade” Taiwan. Taiwan is Chinese and you cannot invade your own territory. Even Taiwan accepts it is part of China, it merely thinks its side of... Read more »
  • The Slow Motion Execution of Julian Assange
    Thanks entirely to the brilliance of Chris Hedges in leading me through the material, I think this is the most clear outline of the Assange case which I have ever given. I wish to address some social media attacks: Nobody is paying me to be here to campaign for Julian,... Read more »
  • Defend Assange US Tour
    I am currently in Minnesota where I am speaking tonight and doing several media interviews. The primary purpose of the whole US visit is not the public appearances, but preparation for the campaign and defence in the USA should extradition go ahead. That does not mean at all that the... Read more »
  • Submission to the United Nations
    The complaint to the United Nations against my imprisonment for contempt of court has now been submitted. This is the first time I have been able to state the case without the compulsory use of Scottish counsel, who were astonishingly timid of criticising Lady Dorrian or detailing Sturgeon’s conspiracy, its... Read more »
  • The Scottish Gestapo
    On 28 July a gender critical woman demonstrator, Julie Marshall, was “punched in the face” by a political opponent in Aberdeen. The man who struck her was questioned and issued with a police caution not to punch people. He was neither arrested nor charged. A month later, Scottish Government minister... Read more »

 


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    Jude Collins

  • Unionism – A Home-grown Constitutional Threat – by Michael Lagan
      Northern Irish Unionism can blame no one but itself for the predicament it is in at this very moment.  It wasn’t involved nearly as much in the Windsor Framework negotiations clearly due to the fact that when the DUP was in a king-maker role in Westminster during the Protocol... Read more »
  • PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT HEROIN IN SCOTLAND, THAT SYCAMORE TREE, SF’S GRIP ON THE PSNI…AND HOMEWORK
    They’re using heroin in Scotland – only this time it’s legal. A medical area has been set up, where users can legally take their fix. Is providing fix facilities the best route to dealing with this problem? By now you’ve probably heard about that sycamore tree that has stood in... Read more »
  • Partition: inherently unjust – by Joe McVeigh
    Partition was inherently unjust and could never last. It is interesting that a founder member of the DUP, Wallace Thompson, has recently stated that a united Ireland is inevitable. I believe he is saying out loud what many unionists are thinking. From my earliest days, many in my community regarded... Read more »
  • :A SOUL BROTHER? By Donal Kennedy
    :   Leo Varadker, Soul Brother of the late Hitler Shirt-wearing* Ernst Rohm, has been to Kiev to worship the junta there and to dishonour the memory of Eamon de Valera, probably the most rational, ethical and successful public figure of the twentieth century.   I mean to support my... Read more »
  • Cobh Rebel Walking Tours – by Kieran McCarthy
      I run ‘Cobh Rebel Walking Tours’ here in Co. Cork.     As a result, I am met with guests of all nationalities who visit here to learn all about our war of independence and Irish history in general, each year.   I want to tell you about some of... Read more »
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  • Israeli Soldiers Shoot A Palestinian In Jericho
    On Saturday dawn, Israeli soldiers shot a young Palestinian man in Jericho city, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said several military vehicles invaded Jericho from its eastern entrance and installed a military roadblock in the center of the city. They added that many Palestinians... Read more »
  • Israeli Colonizers Injure A Palestinian Near Jericho
    On Friday evening, Israeli colonizers assaulted a Palestinian at Al-Mo’arrajat Street, northwest of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the colonizers ambushed and attacked Mohammad Salama Drei’at from Noweima village, north of Jericho. They added that the Palestinian was driving his car when... Read more »
  • VideoIsraeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Ramallah
    On Friday night, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian and injured another after opening fire at their car near Al-Biereh city in the occupied West Bank’s central part. The soldiers fired a barrage of live rounds at a Palestinian car near the illegal Psagot Israeli colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands... Read more »
  • VideoIsraeli Soldiers Shoot Four Palestinians In Kufur Qaddoum
    On Friday, Israeli soldiers shot Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets and caused many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, in the occupied West Bank’s northwestern part. The army also abducted two Palestinians near Salfit. The Palestinians and international... Read more »
  • Army Injures Many Palestinians, Three Internationals Including A Reporter, In Beit Dajan
    On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians, and three internationals including one reporter, during the weekly procession against the illegal Israeli colonialist activities in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part. Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Emergency Department at the Palestinian Red Crescent... Read more »
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    Geopolitical Economy Report

  • VideoPoverty is growing in Puerto Rico, under US colonialism: 57.6% of children live in poor households
    Poverty is rising in one of the world's oldest colonies: In Puerto Rico, 41.7% of people, including 57.6% of children, live in poverty. This is nearly four times the US rate. And Puerto Rican workers are getting poorer even while unemployment falls. The post Poverty is growing in Puerto Rico,... Read more »
  • VideoTerror attacks on Cuba’s embassy fueled by aggressive US policy
    Cuba's embassy in Washington has been attacked two times in three years, and no one has been held accountable. This reflects the long history of US-backed terrorism against Cuba, and six decades of illegal economic warfare. The post Terror attacks on Cuba’s embassy fueled by aggressive US policy appeared first... Read more »
  • BRICS or NATO? G20 or G77? Summits debate rapidly changing world order
    Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar to discuss the rapidly changing world order at a time of summits of BRICS, G20, and G77 and the UN General Assembly. The post BRICS or NATO? G20 or G77? Summits debate rapidly changing world order... Read more »
  • Chinese balloon was not spying, US gov’t admits months after manufactured crisis
    The Pentagon admitted that a Chinese balloon that crossed into US territory in February was not spying; it was likely blown off course by wind. But Washington and the media milked this manufactured scandal for new cold war propaganda. The post Chinese balloon was not spying, US gov’t admits months... Read more »
  • VideoChina deepens ties with Venezuela, challenging US ‘hegemonic mindset’
    Condemning Washington's "hegemonic mindset" and sanctions, China strengthened its strategic partnership with Venezuela. The oil-rich South American nation's President Nicolás Maduro took a historic trip to Beijing, and applied to join BRICS. The post China deepens ties with Venezuela, challenging US ‘hegemonic mindset’ appeared first on Geopolitical Economy Report.... Read more »

 


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    Zinn Education Project

  • 100+ Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups Formed for New School Year
    For four years now, Teaching for Black Lives study groups have been sponsored by nurturing communities of anti-racist educators across the United States. This school year, more than 100 study groups are investigating what it means to teach for Black lives. The post 100+ <i>Teaching for Black Lives</i> Study Groups Formed for... Read more »
  • #TeachTruth About Constitution Day
    On this Constitution Day, let’s commit ourselves to teach the truth. Let’s look deeply and critically at how this document may have offered a republican form of government for some, but denied humanity to others, and contributed to the system of white supremacy we still need to dismantle. The post... Read more »
  • VideoTeaching in Dangerous Times: Lessons from SNCC
    SNCC veterans Courtland Cox, Jennifer Lawson, and Judy Richardson discuss how the lessons they learned during the Civil Rights Movement are applicable today. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series. The post Teaching in Dangerous Times: Lessons from SNCC... Read more »
  • Book Bans Threaten Public Education
    In 2023, not only are books being banned, but also the right to teach about racism and LGBTQI identity — essentially placing thousands more titles off limits. The official lists of banned books are a drop in the bucket. The post Book Bans Threaten Public Education appeared first on Zinn... Read more »
  • The Climate Crisis Has a History
    We offer a new timeline of the climate crisis that traces its roots from European colonial expansion and racial capitalism to present-day fossil fuel industry and government projects that exploit and destroy the Earth in the name of maximum profit. It also emphasizes moments and movements of resistance and activism... Read more »
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    Free willl

  • Having an Empire | Noam Chomsky
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  • George Orwell | Noam Chomsky
    ***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »
  • Piers Morgan vs Noam Chomsky | The Full Interview
    Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky to discuss the current state of the world, the threat of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Ukraine vs Russia conflict, the attack on free speech within western societies, Donald Trump re-running for President and much more. Subscribe to stay... Read more »
  • Noam Chomsky's Message to the World: Free Julian Assange
    Noam Chomsky, a renowned linguist and dissident, along with former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, joined others earlier this year in urging President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been held in London's Belmarsh prison for over... Read more »
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    Village Magazine

  • John Barrett, blowing whistle on Drew Harris
    Head of Garda Human Resources is in High Court over his dismissal by Garda Commissioner after spurious investigation The post John Barrett, blowing whistle on Drew Harris appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
  • Climate catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and Socialism
    Climate Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy, and Socialism” between linguist and political critic Noam Chomsky, Chilean exponent of the Marxist-Collapsist theoretical current Miguel Fuentes, and American ecologist and evolutionary biologist Guy McPherson. The post Climate catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and Socialism appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
  • Reply from Noam Chomsky to the Interventions of Miguel Fuentes and Guy McPherson
    Reply from Noam Chomsky to the Interventions of Miguel Fuentes and Guy McPherson in the first part of the debate “Climate Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy, and Socialism The post Reply from Noam Chomsky to the Interventions of Miguel Fuentes and Guy McPherson appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
  • Unannounced special advisers push total salaries towards €6 million
    By Conor O’Carroll The Department of Education has confirmed to Village Magazine that three as-yet-unannounced special advisers are employed at the department. Áine Doyle and Eoin Murphy are employed as special advisers to Minister of Education, Norma Foley TD, while Diane O’Gorman is employed as a special adviser to Minister... Read more »
  • “The thought of being homeless again is terrifying, it gives me nightmares”: Students struggle for college accommodation
    By Ava Liange After two consecutive years of COVID-19, online learning and postponed exams, the housing crisis is once again the main obstacle that prevents students from pursuing their studies. With the start of the new academic year just around the corner, it is becoming increasingly challenging for students to... Read more »

 


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    Opinion – Middle East Monitor

  • The Turks are winning the new Great Game at the Caspian
    One region where events seem to have been developing at breakneck speed over the past few years is that of Nagorno-Karabakh, the former Armenian-dominated breakaway republic which – despite being internationally-recognised as Azerbaijani territory – had been ruled by Armenian militants with support from Yerevan over the past three decades.... Read more »
  • The UN’s acquiescence to erasing Palestine
    Erasing Palestine is what the Zionist colonial project is about. At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu illustrated the aim by showing a map of Greater Israel – completely eliminating the existence of Gaza and the occupied West Bank – the only remaining fragments of... Read more »
  • Hate against Muslims in India, whether on the streets or in Parliament, is the same
    Hate is the chief ingredient of everyday discourse on the streets and the country’s socio-political system to allow the Hindutva forces to continue to control the harvest. In a historic moment, the new Parliament held its first session, debating the success of India’s moon mission, when a senior lawmaker from... Read more »
  • The ‘Peace Day Effort’ offered ambiguity and impunity
    The EU’s Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, Sven Koopmans, has succeeded in carving out a niche for ambiguity amid all the non-binding UN resolutions, peace initiatives, normalisation agreements and the two-state compromise. The Peace Day Effort, which was held on the sidelines of the 78th UN General... Read more »
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    As Argentina prepares for its 22 October presidential election, far-right candidate Javier Milei, who won the largest share of votes in the presidential primary elections, has made it clear that one of the first steps he will take should he win will be to move the country’s embassy in Israel... Read more »
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  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »
  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »
  • Military and Economic Power Once Again Fail to Produce Happiness
    Although the rulers of the world’s major military and economic powers have repeatedly claimed that they are making their nations great again, their policies have not resulted in widespread happiness among their citizens. That conclusion emerges from the recent World Happiness Report-2022, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. ... Read more »
  • Who Speaks for the World?
    Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies. Since World War II alone, these acts of aggression have included France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, Britain’s... Read more »
  • Peace in Ukraine through neutrality and peaceful EU membership, end the USA’s proxy war against Russia
    Ethnic division was used to consolidate control by the USA and Nationalists of Ukraine. They have signed Minsk Peace Accords to end the civil wars in Donbas region through referendums, signed since 2015, but they did not implement them, because maintaining an active civil war front psyche of ‘them and... Read more »
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    Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork

  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »
  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »
  • Military and Economic Power Once Again Fail to Produce Happiness
    Although the rulers of the world’s major military and economic powers have repeatedly claimed that they are making their nations great again, their policies have not resulted in widespread happiness among their citizens. That conclusion emerges from the recent World Happiness Report-2022, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. ... Read more »
  • Who Speaks for the World?
    Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies. Since World War II alone, these acts of aggression have included France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, Britain’s... Read more »
  • Peace in Ukraine through neutrality and peaceful EU membership, end the USA’s proxy war against Russia
    Ethnic division was used to consolidate control by the USA and Nationalists of Ukraine. They have signed Minsk Peace Accords to end the civil wars in Donbas region through referendums, signed since 2015, but they did not implement them, because maintaining an active civil war front psyche of ‘them and... Read more »

 


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  • Top Cuban Diplomat Seeks Probe of D.C. Embassy Attack & End to "Unbearable" U.S. Sanctions
    Cuba has released footage showing an individual throwing two Molotov cocktails inside the Cuban Embassy compound in Washington, D.C., last Sunday, condemning it as a terrorist attack. An investigation is underway, but no arrests have been made. Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío says the country is demanding... Read more »
  • Nazi Veteran Honored in Canada Was Part of Wave of Collaborators Harbored in West: Lev Golinkin
    Poland says it’s preparing to seek the extradition of a 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi after he received a standing ovation in the Canadian House of Commons last week following a speech by visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Yaroslav Hunka was invited by the speaker of the House, who has since resigned... Read more »
  • Fearing Ethnic Cleansing, 90,000 Armenians Flee Nagorno-Karabakh After Azerbaijan Military Blitz
    The government of Nagorno-Karabakh is dissolving itself after decades of struggle for autonomy from Azerbaijan, just days after Azerbaijani forces carried out a military blitz to seize the breakaway region, which has a majority of ethnic Armenians. More than half the territory’s 120,000 people have reportedly fled to Armenia, while... Read more »
  • Headlines for September 29, 2023
    Ahead of Shutdown, Biden Says GOP Extremists Are Trying to “Burn the Place Down”, Biden Warns Trump & MAGA Movement Are a Threat to Democracy, Activist Disrupts Biden Speech, Urges Him to Declare Climate Emergency, 18 Youth Climate Activists Arrested for Occupying Speaker McCarthy’s Office, GOP Witnesses Admit No Evidence... Read more »
  • Breaking the Menendez Cycle? Senator Pleads Not Guilty to Corruption, But Calls Grow for Resignation
    Senator Bob Menendez appeared in court Wednesday to face corruption charges yet refused to resign. A growing number of politicians have called for Menendez to step down, after federal agents discovered large amounts of cash, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz in the Democrat’s New Jersey home. “There’s a possibility that... Read more »