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Bolivia: Elitist coup attempt in Santa Cruz

October 29, 2022 Angel Guerra Cabrera
The ultra-right-wing governor of the department of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, and his separatist clique have been maintaining an elitist and bosses’ strike against the government of Bolivia since October 21, which has already […]
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The military-industrial media complex strikes again

October 29, 2022 Eve Ottenberg
Tens of thousands protested against the skyrocketing cost of living and against Macron in France October 16, led by left-wing politician Jean Luc Melenchon, but there were few front page or top-of-the-hour headlines in the […]
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U.S. tries to bend UN Charter to bless illegal, unwanted invasion

October 28, 2022 Kim Ives
The gloves came off at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Mon., Oct. 17, 202,2 in one of the best bare-knuckle diplomatic throw-downs since the dawn of the new multipolar world on Feb. 24, 2022. […]
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Charting the rise of anti-French sentiment across Northern Africa

October 28, 2022 Vijay Prashad
In November 2021, a French military convoy was making its way to Mali while passing through Burkina Faso and Niger. It did not get very far. It was stopped in Téra, Niger, and before that at […]
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Lula and the challenging Brazilian situation

October 22, 2022 Angel Guerra Cabrera
The second round of the Brazilian elections, on October 30, is probably the most important and bitter electoral confrontation in our America since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998.  This election goes further than […]
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The last thing that Haiti needs is another military intervention

October 22, 2022 Vijay Prashad
At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our […]
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No U.S. intervention in Haiti!

October 20, 2022 Stephen Millies
More than a hundred people marched through the heart of Brooklyn, New York’s Haitian community, on Oct. 17 to protest plans to invade Haiti. Onlookers in cars honked their horns and raised fists in support. […]
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Pakistan’s floods, China’s heatwave and the climate crisis

October 18, 2022 Scott Scheffer
The next international climate change conference will start on November 4 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.  Tens of millions are struggling to recover from extreme weather disasters that spanned the entire world in 2022. Just a […]
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Washington using ‘gang’ bogeyman to justify widely rejected military intervention

October 17, 2022 Kim Ives and W.T. Whitney
The lede of the Guardian’s Oct. 7 article on Haiti, repeated with slight variations throughout the international mainstream media, was that “Haiti’s government has authorized the prime minister, Ariel Henry, to ask the international community for a […]
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Is the death of an innocent woman being exploited to advance the goal of regime change in Iran?

October 13, 2022 Elizabeth Sigrún
In an era increasingly awash with political instability, the latest protests in Iran are yet another manifestation of the plague of Western imperialism. The sudden death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini and the unclear […]