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Western NGOs Squander Aid for Yemen Leaving Millions in Misery: Report

from the News Desk at The Cradle, published on December 13, 2022 As the Saudi-instigated war in Yemen inches towards its eight year, investigative reports have come to show that billions of dollars in humanitarian aid managed by international organizations have done very little to alleviate the suffering of millions of Yemenis, who often receive as little as 20 percent[…]

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Behind Sam Bankman-Fried’s Cryptocurrency Crash

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, December 4, 2022 “What is the robbing of a bank to the founding of a bank?” —Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera Thirty-year-old “wonder boy” Sam Bankman-Fried (often called SBF) was, at $21 billion, among the richest men on earth. Until a month ago, he was CEO of the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the[…]

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US Chip War Hurts Taiwan

by Uriel Araujo, published on InfoBRICS, December 5, 2022 Once settled in the US, TSMC  will have to pay higher wages and deal with U.S. constraints.   It will once and for all lose it’s previous main buyer, Huawei.   So yes, Taiwan will lose, but the US may not win.  This imperial initiative to control critical resources may well result in[…]

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UTIER, Independent Puerto Rican Electrical Trade Union Fighting US Neoliberal Privatization

Statement by Jeanette Graulau, published on Labor Today, November 2022 While some Western countries are planning to re-nationalize their energy industries, the U.S. imposes upon its colony of Puerto Rico a privatization plan to ‘unbundle’ the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), one of the oldest and fully operational electric power corporations of Latin America. Since 2020, LUMA Energy, a[…]

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For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War Repression and Capitalist Misery

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 9, 2022 The 50-year old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an improvement in the lives of the Black working class. The agenda was set with the Lewis Powell Memorandum[…]

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Scholz’s China Trip Raises Hackles

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, November 5, 2022 German diplomacy presented a riveting sight of “counterpoint” with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock hosting her G7 partners in Münster on November 3-4 even as Chancellor Olaf Sholz was emplaning from Berlin on a one-day visit to Beijing. The photo-op showed the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken flanking Baerbock[…]

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U.S. Hybrid war Against Venezuela Goes to Court: The Case of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab

by Roger Harris and John Philpot, published on Pressenza New York, October 3, 2022 As Venezuela’s special envoy and a deputy ambassador to the African Union, Saab has diplomatic immunity from arrest and detention under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Although a party to the convention, the U.S. has flouted this principle of international law. Judicial overreach on[…]

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Cuba: USAID Versus the Culture of Internationalism

By Javier Gómez Sánchez, published on Resumen English, October 27, 2022 The announcement issued last October 18 that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), after the devastation of Hurricane Ian, will make a donation of humanitarian aid valued at two million dollars to Cuba through the International Red Cross, immediately generated a media hullabaloo and a flurry of[…]

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New US Sanctions Are Designed To Hit Nicaragua’s Poorest Citizens

by John Perry, published on Popular Resistance, October 29, 2022 The Biden administration has announced new sanctions which are intended to hit the poorest Nicaraguans – both in their pockets and in the public services on which they depend. This latest attack on a small Central American country is, as usual, dressed up as promoting democracy: the sanctions will “deny[…]

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