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Solar farm in California desert. (Bureau of Land Management via Flickr) by Niklas Hagelberg, Published on Consortium News, June 7, 2019 Fossil fuels — oil, gas, coal and their derivatives — pollute the atmosphere and emit the greenhouse gases that are ramping up global heating to dangerous levels. And governments around the world are subsidizing this pollution. Historically, governments used[…]
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photo by Mark Verch, Flikr by Joe Lauria, Published on Consortium News, June 5, 2019 Less than two months after the arrest of journalist Julian Assange, and two weeks after his indictment under the Espionage Act, emboldened governments have sent the police after journalists who’ve challenged the state. Joe Lauria reports. following the arrest and Espionage Act indictment of Julian[…]
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An armored vehicle in flames during the June 4, 1989 protests in Beijing by Brian Becker, Published on Liberation News, June 3, 2019 Liberation News is republishing the following article originally posted in 2014 to answer the lies spread by the U.S. government and its loyal corporate media outlets about China on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the 1989[…]
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Add Newby Editorial Staff, Countercurrents, June 7, 2019 Sanctions imperialism has imposed on Venezuela are illegal. The UN and Organization of American States (OAS) charters, and U.S. laws find this illegal action. Media reports said: The unilateral economic sanctions is an explicit violation of international law protected under the UN, OAS charters, human rights stipulations, and even U.S. law. Despite[…]
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Photo: Protester in the UK, Dockworkers in France and Italy acted on this shared vision ~Allsdare Hickson, Flikr By John Catalinotto posted on Workers World, June 7, 2019 Would the Saudi-flagged ship be able to load weapons in France or Italy bound for use in the brutal war against the 30 million people of Yemen? The events of mid-to-late May[…]
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Photo: Alex Chis, Flikr by Sara Roy, Published on Counterpunch, June 4, 2019 To the Members of the German Government: I write to you regarding the motion recently passed by the Bundestag that equated BDS with anti-Semitism. I also write to you as Jew, a child of Holocaust survivors and as a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. My mother, Taube,[…]
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by Dahr Jamail, Published on Countercurrents, June 8, 2019 (originally published on Truthout) I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. I circle around God, around the primordial tower. I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’t know:[…]
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by Colin Todhunter, Published on Countercurrents blog, June 5, 2019 Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and the British Medical Association Council Chairman, Chaand Nagpaul. Her purpose is to not only draw attention to the impact of biocides, not least that of glyphosate, on health and the environment but also to[…]
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Photo: Central American migrants turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol as they seek asylum after illegally crossing the Rio Grande near Penitas, Texas, on April 6, 2019.Loren Elliott / Reuters by Theresa Gutierrez, Published On Workers World, June 4, 2019 In 2003, during the genocidal and criminal U.S. war against Iraq, the term “shock and awe” was propagated. The[…]
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By Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada Introduction by Tamara Hansen Published on Fire This Time Movement Newsletter, Volume 13, V1315 A full trade blockade was announced by Democratic U.S. President John F. Kennedy on February 3, and formally established on February 7, 1962. The U.S. government claims these sanctions were and are meant to punish the revolutionary government of Cuba, not[…]
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