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by Kathy Kelly, March 2, 2021 This is a tribute to the endless US war on Iraq. Operation Desert Storm formally ended with a ceasefire on March 4, 1991, following the devastating massacre of retreating Iraqi troops on Highway 80 by US air forces. Shock and Awe campaign of bombing Baghdad commenced 12 years later on March 20, 2003, and[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 3, 2021 Most Democrats either don’t want a minimum wage increase or are too afraid of bucking their party’s donor class. “Biden and the rest of the Democrats will never defy the people who butter their bread.” The federal minimum wage has been a paltry $7.25 per hour since 2009. In that[…]
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By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies, On February 25th, President Biden ordered U.S. air forces to drop seven 500-pound bombs on Iraqi forces in Syria, reportedly killing 22 people. The U.S. airstrike has predictably failed to halt rocket attacks on deeply unpopular U.S. bases in Iraq, which the Iraqi National Assembly passed a resolution to close over a year ago.[…]
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From Venezuelanalysis, February 22, 2021 Mérida 2/22 – Venezuela has blasted the imposition of additional European Union (EU) sanctions against nineteen politicians, state officials and security chiefs. According to an EU statement released Monday, the individuals are penalised for their alleged role in “acts and decisions undermining democracy and the rule of law” or “as a result of serious human[…]
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by Lee Siu Hin, published on Action LA, February 22, 2021 China and Russia are among the first countries in the world to vaccinate people, according to the website Our World in Data. By December 15th, 2020, at least 1.5 million Chinese had taken a jab, compared to the U.S. and U.K. who also began their vaccination campaigns in early[…]
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by Danny Haiphong, published on The Grayzone, February 22, 2021 This is important because there are still many people who are, or should be active in our organizations who continue to rely on Democracy Now! for progressive news. During the Iraq war, Democracy Now! gained an audience through coverage of facts that supported opposition to the war while they also[…]
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by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, March 1, 2021 The American Rescue Plan (ARP) was passed in the House this past week and now heads to the Senate, where it will no doubt be changed before it becomes law some time in mid-March. The current unemployment benefits expire on March 14. While we don’t know what the final bill[…]
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by Roger Harris, published on Counterpunch, February 26, 2021 US President Biden bellicosely proclaimed, “American is back,” in his major foreign policy priorities speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 19. Repeated twice for effect, Biden signaled the end of the Trump interregnum. No more assuring words could have been uttered for George W. Bush’s former Defense Secretary Colin[…]
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By Staff@FightBack News!, published February 21, 2021 Bessemer, AL – As workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse have begun voting by mail on whether or not to join the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), Amazon is pulling out all of the stops to try to coerce them out of voting for the union. They are trying many tactics[…]
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by Syed Ehtisham, published on Countercurrents, February 15 2021 IMF and WB do not function like UN agencies on a ‘One nation, one vote’ system. Voting power is pegged to the size of economy and on financial contribution to the WB. The after effects of some of the decisions of IMF/WB are as below: In 1994, Zambia declared that it[…]
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