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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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.   […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Bizarre Israeli Analyses of Syrian Curriculum Circulate in the Middle East

My friend, a senior UN official based in Amman, Jordan, recently received a newsletter from an Israeli institution – “IMPACT-se”. Their report was called, ‘modestly’, “Reformulating School Textbooks During the […]

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Understanding the Muslim World