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Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Continued U.S./OAS/UN Support for Unconstitutional Actions by Haiti’s Illegitimate Government

Haiti, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples

Black Alliance for Peace Press Release, July 6, 2021 Over eight days, from June 25-30, Haiti had been subjected to increasing state-sponsored, imperial and gang violence. Massacres killed almost 60 people in Port au Prince, including in Cité Soleil, Delmas and Pétionville, as well as on on Rue Magloire Ambroise. Prominent human-rights activist Antoinette (Netty) Duclaire and journalist Diego Charles[…]

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How U.S. Destroyed Progressive Secular Forces in Afghanistan

Socialism

by Deirdre Griswold, published on Workers World, July 5, 2021 A timely reminder, while the crocodile tears are flowing over the U.S. ‘abandoning’ Afghanistan (too soon?). [jb] First published in Workers World in October 1996, and then republished on Sept. 27, 2001, just before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, with the following introduction: The media are suddenly full of opinions[…]

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How the Billionaires Rule

Austerity, Labor, War on the Poor

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 8, 2021 Predatory Capitalism Has Driven Down Wages and Created a Dystopia for Workers. “Currently, 25 states out of 50 have rejected additional help for the unemployed.” President Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of America is business.” The expression is memorable because it always rang true. But nearly 100 years later[…]

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The Ethiopian Conflict and International Law

Ethiopia, International Law, Syria

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 8, 2021 “The NATO nations, and especially the US are hostile to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the government of Ethiopia.” Ann Garrison: Francis Boyle, you’re an expert in international law, including subsets, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. Could you explain what international humanitarian law is? Francis A. Boyle: There[…]

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America’s Impressive History of Bioweapons Attacks Against Its Own People

Biological Weapons, Bioweapons, China, US Hypocrisy

by Lee Camp, published on ScheerPost, July 6, 2021 Lee’s intro: Forget China-bashing conspiracy theories, let’s look at the fogging of SF, the microbial attack on the NYC subway and other unpleasantries perpetrated by the CIA and US military in our not-so-distant past. Comment: Even if the current coronavirus was engineered in a lab, we do not have evidence of[…]

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US Wars Come Home to Roost

Gun Violence, Social Impact, The Drug War, The War at Home, US Military

by Colleen Rowley, published on Consortium News, July 8, 2021 It’s been six months since the Jan. 6 insurrection. But long before the public saw that mob scene in the Capitol, it was easy to predict that the upcoming inauguration would, unfortunately, take place amid extreme electoral polarization and civil unrest. Ordinary Americans had been turned against each other, radicalizing[…]

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What’s Behind The Assassination Of Haitian President Moïses?

Haiti, Interview, Political Analysis

by Dan Cohen and Kim Ivers, published on MintPress News, July 9, 2021 Everything you never knew about what is going on in Haiti.  The quote targets the immediate issue, who killed Jovenal Moise, but the entire interview lays out a detailed context.  [jb] The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse sent shockwaves through the tiny Caribbean island nation and[…]

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U.S. Wargames in Nordic Region Aimed at Moscow

Russia

by Agneta Norberg, published on Organizing Notes, July 3, 2021 Suddenly the Arctic Sea is a critical area of dispute.  U.S. forces are there to put in their marker because the arctic waters are no longer frozen for most of the year.  It used to be that only Russia, with a long arctic coastline, built ships to navigate the frozen[…]

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