Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 25, 2024 US efforts to control information in Africa will ultimately backfire, says African journalist, author, and filmmaker David Hundeyin. On September 13, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference in which he accused the Russian media outlet RT of covertly disseminating Kremlin-produced content and messaging, not only in[…]
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by Ben Norton, published on Geopolitical Economy, August 11, 2024 The World Anti-Doping Agency says the US has for a decade allowed athletes in international competitions, including the Olympics, to cheat by using prohibited drugs, while it hypocritically criticizes Russia and China. The United States has for a decade allowed athletes in international competitions, including the Olympics, to use prohibited[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, August 14, 2023 On July 26, 2023, Niger’s presidential guard moved against the sitting president—Mohamed Bazoum—and conducted a coup d’état. A brief contest among the various armed forces in the country ended with all the branches agreeing to the removal of Bazoum and the creation of a military junta led by Presidential Guard Commander[…]
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By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 31, 2023 What the corporate media ban from their coverage of the unfolding and ever massive French protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to add two years to the French retirement age, from 62 to 64, is the origin of the pension plan itself, perhaps the best in the world. This magnificent[…]
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by Muhammad Shabeer, published by People’s Dispatch, March 29, 2023 When it bypassed Parliament and forced through pension system changes, Macron’s government exposed the anti-democratic deterioration in the Fifth Republic’s dual-executive system, writes Muhammed Shabeer. Major trade unions in France estimate that two million people hit the streets across France on Tuesday, March 28, denouncing the controversial pension reforms pushed by Emmanuel Macron’s[…]
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by Staff at Countercurrents, January 20, 2023 A massive strike has hit France on Thursday. Workers and other earners joined hands in protesting pension reform. Trade union sources said the number of people joining more than 200 protest marches was 2 million. Police had to use tear gas to contain the protesters in Paris. Teachers, railway workers and public sector[…]
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by Ted Snider, published on Antiwar.com, December 7, 2022 The Ukraine war has caused some cracks in NATO. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it will break. [jb] The war in Ukraine is stretching the NATO alliance. The pull is still gentle and the cracks still small. But the potentially endless duration of the war, the economic suffering it has caused[…]
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by Otis Grotewhol, published on Workers World, October 28, 2022 If they can do it, why can’t we? [jb] Protesters clashed with the police in numerous cities, as 300,000 workers participated in a partial general strike in France Oct. 18 and courageously took to the streets throughout the country. Most of the striking workers were from the transportation, education and[…]
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by the Countercurrents Collective, published on Countercurrents, October 19, 2022 The Europeans are struggling with the insane response of the EU leadership to the Ukraine War, eagerly sacrificing their welfare to a proxy war in support of U.S. aggression and a deadly proxy war. [jb] French workers took part in a nationwide strike Tuesday to demand higher wages to keep[…]
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by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, July 25, 2022 In the current situation in Haiti, organized groups — invariably called gangs by the bourgeois media — often have more and heavier weapons than the Haitian cops. Some of these “gangs” were created to profit from extortion and kidnapping, like the “400 Mawozo” who grabbed 17 missionaries in December 2021[…]
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