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Interview of A. Vltchek: The United States, police brutality and the possibilities of a fundamental change

Erkin Oncan interviews Andre Vltchek on the nature of the protests in the US and on the possibility to bring a fundamental change of US society.   EO: How do […]

“The world cannot breathe!” Squashed by the US – A country built on genocide and slavery

More than two centuries of lies are now getting exposed. Bizarre tales about freedom and democracy are collapsing like houses of cards. One man’s death triggers an avalanche of rage […]

The Soviet victory over nazism 75 years ago, and COVID-19

How could the Great Patriotic War in which the Soviet people (including many members of my own family) lost at least 25 million lives, have anything in common with the […]

“Battle” against COVID-19 in a fragmented world has ruined billions of lives

It is not only about physically surviving the pandemic. People miss people, and places, sometimes desperately. And they die, when separated. We are bombarded by briefings and numbers. We are […]

Hong Kong rioters should never fight against their own country

For several months, Western mass media called the Hong Kong rioters, “pro-democracy protesters”. It still does. But I began noticing a new, even deadlier terminology. Now, the black-clad ninja-looking men […]

The daughter of Zeus or the privatization of Mount Olympus

When three representatives of the European Central Bank come knocking on the door of the House of the Gods, it ends up making sparks fly. Franklin Frederick offers us a […]

Controlling epidemics? The WHO had the answer 40 years ago

  For once, everyone agrees. The only way to deal effectively with Covid 19 is through comprehensive, equitable, universally accessible health systems. This was precisely the solution proposed to countries […]

Water and the New Colonial Powers

   On November 14th the Canadian group Wellington Water Watchers organized the «All Eyes on Nestlé» conference in the city of Guelph, Ontario, bringing together indigenous’ peoples and citizens’ movements fighting Nestlé’s water takings from Canada, the […]

The origins of the United States of America : JOKER and the end of white supremacy

«At its root, capitalism not only meant slavery and white supremacy but also the ethos of the gangster » (Gerald Horne)   The film ‘Joker’ presents a contemporary phenomenon present […]

Nestlé and water privatisation: worrying news from Switzerland

  Last February, the Government of Switzerland announced the creation of a Foundation in Geneva (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foundation-for-the-future_switzerland-moves-to-boost-international-geneva/44771548), under the name ‘Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator’ (GSDA). The purpose of this new […]

The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality

In a remarkable book, 1939 : The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, the Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley describes how, at the end of the […]

“In the US Prison Industrial Complex, slavery can be used as form of punishment”

The 31st july a group of incarcerated people at Scotland Correctional, North Carolina started a hunger strike in order to protest against the use of torture in the correctional facility. […]

Moro and the failure of the police State in Brazil

The project of the construction of a Police State is one of the three fundamental pillars of the Bolsonaro Government and its agent is judge Sergio Moro.   One pillar […]

Why Should Iran be Cherished and Defended?

As I pen this short essay, Iran is standing against the mightiest nation on earth. It is facing tremendous danger; of annihilation even, if the world does not wake up […]

Nicaragua and the Neocolonial Super-revolutionaries

Photo : MRS leaders ex-sandinistas Dora Maria Tellez, Edmundo Jarquín and Hugo Torrez campaigning with corrupt right wing leader Eduardo Montealegre in 2008.Monica Baltodano was an MRS deputy during this […]

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Understanding the Muslim World