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- Analysis and testimonies / Middle East
- 02 Oct 2018
Palestinian-French lawyer Salah Hamouri freed by Israel
Salah Hamouri, a Palestinian-French human rights defender and lawyer, has been freed from an Israeli prison after more than a year of detention without charge or trial. On Saturday […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 01 Oct 2018
The rights of the Mapuche people : criminalization of leaders and corporate projects
In the area of human rights, for more than twenty years Chile has been experiencing an increase in mobilizations of indigenous peoples for the respect of their rights to land, […]
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- Analysis and testimonies
- 01 Oct 2018
1918: How the Allies Surfed to Victory on a Wave of Oil
Virtually everybody knows that the First World War came to an end when Germany capitulated on November 11, 1918. But very few people are aware that, earlier in that same […]
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- Media Watch
- 29 Sep 2018
Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners
Media giant Facebook recently announced (Reuters, 9/19/18) it would combat “fake news” by partnering with two propaganda organizations founded and funded by the US government: the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 25 Sep 2018
US Disregard for International Law is a Menace to Latin America
This is a situation where Venezuela cannot wait or hope for any immediate help except from its own people, and it has to lean on the side of caution, writes […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 24 Sep 2018
“Living above our means” – Macri, the IMF, and other victims of austerity
After a hectic weekend with speculation aplenty, Argentina woke up on September 3rd waiting for the announcements of president Mauricio Macri. After accomplishing the feat of being late in delivering […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Middle East / United States
- 24 Sep 2018
Trump’s decision to close the PLO Embassy says more about the future of the US than the future of Palestine
Trump’s decision to revoke the presence of the PLO Embassy in Washington says a lot more about the future of the US order than about the future of Palestine. […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / André Vltchek's Column / Asia / Middle East
- 20 Sep 2018
Syria or Southeast Asia – the West lied, lies and always will
I’m sitting at the splendid building of the Singapore National Library, in a semi-dark room, microfilm inserted into a high-tech machine. I’m watching and then filming and photographing several old […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Media Watch
- 18 Sep 2018
Why we’re blind to the system destroying us
I rarely use this blog to tell readers what they should believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 17 Sep 2018
Stedile: Brazilian election is about class struggle
Electing a president and state and federal representatives who have a commitment to workers is how the people will be able to overturn the impacts of measures that affected basic rights […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy / Economy
- 16 Sep 2018
Ten years on, the crisis of global capitalism never really ended
With inequality on the rise, global debt higher than ever and international tensions intensifying, the political backlash to the crash of 2008 has only just begun. This weekend marks […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / André Vltchek's Column / Asia
- 12 Sep 2018
Indonesia ‘Proudly’ Joins US-led Exercises to Antagonize China
Indonesia (RI), the 4th most populous nation on Earth and the country with the largest Muslim population is, and since the 1965 US-orchestrated anti-Communist coup has been, the most radically […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 11 Sep 2018
Ecuador’s Great Betrayal
Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno was elected to continue Correa’s Citizens’ Revolution — but has set about dismantling it instead. In a little over a year, the political landscape in […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Europe
- 10 Sep 2018
Corbyn’s leadership in danger
The defeat for the Palestinian cause at the hands of the Labour Party’s NEC should not be underestimated. Who thought they would see the day when a left-led Labour […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 08 Sep 2018
Production and Conflict in El Maizal Commune
In this article we examine the productive activities of El Maizal Commune, based on our visit in May. We also look at the relation between the commune and state companies, […]