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2019 Wasn’t Just About Trump. It Will Be Remembered for Global Resistance
Recently, the United Nations issued a report predicting that climate change would exacerbate a growing gap between the rich and poor globally, and protests across the world are clear evidence that current political systems are failing large numbers of people. And that means uprisings are bound to continue. Protesters, medical professionals and political opponents demand the […]
Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America
Do the U.S. and its allies have a moral or ethical right to determine the political future of Venezuela?
A Whitened Media Shaped by Bill Clinton’s Telecom Act Misses Reasons for Hillary’s Defeat
The media’s current preoccupation with all things Russian, when the far more imminent threat is much closer to home, represents what is known as “cognitive dissonance,” which in the U.S. manifests as the white settlers’ reflexive attempt to rationalize their own savagery to avoid unsettling and even traumatizing truths. by Jon Jeter Mint Press News January […]
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy Posted by John Feffer September 6, 2012 TomDispatch.com Think back to the election of 2008. Do you remember how one candidate had it easy? He had eight years of abject failure to run against. Eight years that included the launching of two dismal wars, the creation of […]
April Knudson> Haiti and “Humanitarian Intervention
Haiti and “Humanitarian Intervention President Jean-Bertrande Aristide : “Haiti’s exceptional poverty is the result of an exceptional history—one that extracted equally exceptional wealth.” By April Knudson August 22, 2012 Editor’s Note: This speech is one of several given at forum entitled ” Is U.S. Military Intervention Ever Humanitarian?” held August 22, 2012 at […]
Polly Mann> Cuban doctors heroic work in Haiti
Cuban doctors heroic work in Haiti by Polly Mann Published February 5, 2012 Cuba is still under U.S. applied sanctions, but this hasn’t prevented its doctors from saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. A particularly spectacular operation has been in Haiti, a victim of hurricane Katrina as well as a victim […]
5 WikiLeaks Hits of 2011 That Are Turning the World on Its Head — And That the Media Are Ignoring
5 WikiLeaks Hits of 2011 That Are Turning the World on Its Head — And That the Media Are Ignoring June 7, 2011 | By Rania Khalek AlterNet.org Is 2011 capable of exceeding 2010’s revelations? And what discoveries in 2011 has WikiLeaks unearthed thus far? Between Collateral Murder, the Iraq War Logs, the Afghan War Diary, and Cablegate, it appeared as […]
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