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Category: INTERNATIONAL (PEOPLES DISPATCH)
The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It’s About Germany
Mike Whitney • February 11, 2022 “The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries…
Nord Stream 2: Why Russia’s pipeline to Europe divides the West
The Russia-owned pipeline is at the centre of a disagreement between Germany and the US, which…
Sixty years ago today, a Presidential Proclamation formalized the criminal U.S. blockade against Cuba
Revolutionary Government Statement The Revolutionary Government denounces the more than 60 years of the economic, commercial…
MEDIA STATEMENT: COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS EXPRESSES ITS CONCERN ABOUT US EMBARGO ON CUBA
Parliament, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 – The 7th of February marked 60 years since the United…
1m UK adults ‘go entire day without food’ in cost of living crisis
Study finds one in 10 households report food insecurity while people with serious disabilities five times…
The Guardian view on Amnesty’s Israel report: dominating the discourse
Ehud Barak, Israel’s then defence minister and the country’s most decorated soldier, warned in 2010 that “as long…
Can Israel stop the world from saying ‘apartheid’? Concealing the suffering in Palestine
Israel attempts to improve its public image to counter efforts by human rights organizations that reveal…
Time For A French Reality Check In Africa
Against the background of the recent military takeover in Mali and Burkina-Faso and the ill-feelings directed…
Explosive new Israeli documentary ‘Tantura’ is prompting calls to excavate a possible Palestinian mass grave
By Andrew Lapin January (JTA) – What really happened near a beach in Israel in 1948? The question,…
Ukraine’s president told Biden to ‘calm down’ Russian invasion warnings, saying he was creating unwanted panic: report
Biden and Zelensky spoke by phone Thursday about the threat of Russia invading Ukraine. Biden told…
UN data reveals ‘nearly insurmountable’ scale of lost schooling due to Covid
Up to 70% of 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries lack basic reading skills, with learning…
BIDEN’S DANGEROUS REFUSAL TO REVERSE TRUMP’S WESTERN SAHARA POLICY
Trump recognized the wholesale annexation of one country by another. If Biden lets that stand, the…
Eighty years late: groundbreaking work on slave economy is finally published in UK
Seminal work by scholar and future politician Eric Williams, shunned for decades, is issued by mainstream…
Ukraine tension: US and Russia hold ‘frank’ talks
Russia’s foreign minister and his US counterpart have held what they called “frank” talks to try…
The C.H.I.N.A. Way for a Better Post-COVID World: By H.E. LU Kun, Chinese Ambassador to Ghana
For China, 2021 was a year filled with accomplishments. The Communist Party of China (CPC) celebrated…
Chile’s president-elect names progressive, majority-women cabinet
Gabriel Boric, 35, picks youthful team including at defence the granddaughter of Salvador Allende, who was…
“Inequality kills”: Capitalism and the COVID-19 pandemic
On Monday, the British charity Oxfam published a report documenting the extreme growth of social inequality…
Cuba’s vaccine success story sails past mark set by rich world’s Covid efforts
The island nation struggles to keep the lights on but has inoculated 90% of population with…
Cuba has vaccinated more than 90 percent of its population, surpassing the US, other wealthier nations
“It is a truly remarkable accomplishment, given the size of Cuba, and also the U.S. embargo,…
Israel to Demolish Mosque, Homes, Cut Power in Eastern Jerusalem
Activists to Launch Twitter Storm in Solidarity With the Palestinians in Naqab Global film stars back…
The Failure Of This Week’s US-NATO-Russia Meetings Make War More Likely
The Failure Of This Week’s US-NATO-Russia Meetings Make War More Likely In the late 1990s the…
BULLYING RUSSIA? By Abena Osagu Boateng.
Some time ago the members of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) swore that their subversion of…
Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant
A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant…
Claims US policy in Europe involves ‘appeasement’ of Russia are ludicrous
Hopes for negotiations designed to calm tensions could be thwarted by those desperate to re-fight the…
Overthrowing other people’s Governments: The Master List By William Blum – Published February 2013
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second…
Sir Tony Blair: Bloody Knight of the Realm
Awards and honours bestowed by States or private committees, republican or monarchical, are bound to be…
White Debt by Thomas Harding review – the history they didn’t want you to know
The word Demerara probably means nothing to you, other than being the name of a large-grained…
BLM protesters cleared over toppling of Edward Colston statue
Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Sage Willoughby and Jake Skuse found not guilty over act of public…
Pre-arrival tests and travel isolation to end in England
That’s all for nowOur rolling coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic is now closing for the day…
BLM protesters cleared over toppling of Edward Colston statue
Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Sage Willoughby and Jake Skuse found not guilty over act of public…
Morocco’s Diplomatic Morass
Despite Washington’s about-face on Western Sahara, the erstwhile darling of U.S. policy circles is more isolated…
Canadian professor says the US will be under a ‘right-wing dictator’ by 2030 and his country ‘needs to prepare’ for the ‘collapse of American democracy’
Professor warns of Trumpist threat to US democracy and impact on Canada Thomas Homer-Dixon sets out his…
General Toussaint L’Ouverture, a former Haitian slave…
On this day in 1804, Haiti declared its independence after a slave uprising turned into a…
Who is General Qassem Soleimani
Who is General Qassem Soleimani? The previous century (20th c.e., 14th h.) featured innumerable martyrs. But…