By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 2 February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they agreed to expand the US military presence in the country. In a joint statement, the two governments agreed to ‘announce their plans to accelerate […]
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Illegal US and EU sanctions have blocked some humanitarian aid from going to Syria after a devastating earthquake killed thousands of people. UN experts have demanded an end to the “suffocating” sanctions, saying they “may amount to crimes against humanity”.
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The senator was commenting on Seymour Hersh's report and said his colleagues were never briefed on the attack.
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By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost O.K., you have a speech of 7,000–odd words to deliver to Congress. It ought to run about an hour as these things go. But you have nothing to say. Call Joe Biden. He certainly got the job done Tuesday evening. But I am confused as to our 46th […]
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A World Fragmented by Inequality.
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By Roger Harris / CounterPunch Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the USSR were in an existential standoff. The US had deployed ballistic nuclear missiles in Turkey. When the Soviets responded by placing missiles in Cuba, the […]
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"Over 100,000 of our loved ones being lost to avoidable overdoses a year is not because of a lack of enforcement, it's a direct result of it," the director of the Drug Policy Alliance argued.
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Bennett says the US and its Western allies decided to 'keep striking Putin' and not negotiate.
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The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now
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