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The Ghost of Jimmy Carter

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 8, 2025 Hagiography is inevitable when presidents and other prominent people die. The unwillingness to ‘speak ill of the dead’ and the propaganda that would have us believe in American exceptionalism must be rejected. Jimmy Carter was always devoted to protecting the interests of the U.S. state. “All US Presidents, Living[…]

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Here’s Why Trump’s Talk of Annexing Canada and Greenland Should Not be Dismissed

by Tarak Cyril Amar, published January 7, 2025 I  put a fascinating in-depth discussion of this subject with the author on Kevork Almassian’s Syrianna Analysis at the end of this article. The US president-elect’s “shopping cart” of other countries’ properties should worry all American vassals. Trump and his team of America’s bluntest and briskest can look funny. Their demands are[…]

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Wikileaks has just put all its files online.

by Defend Democracy Press, January 4, 2025 For those inclined to research, and maybe just the curious…… It’s all there: Hillary Clinton’s emails, McCain’s guilt, the Vegas shooting perpetrated by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs’ letter on HIV, Pedo Podesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Israel, the military-financial complex, the mafia/mafias, CIA agents arrested for rape, conspiracies, CIA false-flag attacks, the[…]

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Condemn the Tragic Attack in New Orleans. Reject Scapegoating of Middle Easterners, Muslims and Immigrants.

Workers Voice Socialist Movement (Louisiana), published on Workers World, January 1, 2025 Our condolences go out to the families and friends of those killed and injured in the horrific attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans. We condemn it completely. We also call upon all people of conscience to be skeptical of the official FBI account. We especially warn[…]

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Israel’s Holiday Village in Gaza: The Grotesque Reality behind the Genocide

by Jeremy Salt, published on Palestine Chronicles, January 1, 2024 Israel’s latest actions in Gaza, from setting up a holiday village for soldiers to the destruction of hospitals, highlight a grotesque disconnection from human suffering. The real news of the day is not that the Israeli army has set up a holiday village for tired soldiers on the coast of[…]

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How USAID Paved The Way For Syria’s Jihadist Takeover

by Alexander Rubenstein, published on PopularResistance, December 26 2024 (Originally published on MintPress News) Black Money, Black Flags. As the designated terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) establishes its proto-government in Idlib, notoriously corrupt NGOs are stepping in to fill the gaps in public services, with some even defecting to work alongside the group. The United States, which spent two[…]

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Who Controls Afghanistan’s Sovereign Assets?

Afghanistan Update by Black Alliance for Peace, Solidarity Network, November 18, 2024 Editor’s note: This is not only about Afghanistan’s “Sovereign” Assets.  For the purposes of trade, international banks have to keep a slush fund in dollars in a western bank, since money doesn’t always travel at the same rate, moving money from bank to bank, business to business.   In[…]

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The West is Goading Georgia: Tbilisi Has Been Ensnared by Nato Hypocrisy

by Thomas Fazi, published on Defending Democracy, November 2, 2024 This is a little out of date but the story is pretty much, Ukraine redux.   And, since this was written, the pressure has been rising.  Looks like in Georgia, its pizza rather than cookies.  ~jb Food. Churches. Chacha. This is what Georgia has long been known for. But now this[…]

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What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review

by Roger D. Harris and John Perry, published on Internationalist 360º, December 26, 2024 The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power[…]

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