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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 […]
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Thousands rally: ‘Free Assange!’

October 12, 2022 Struggle-La Lucha Baltimore bureau
Hundreds rallied outside the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8 to protest the incarceration and extradition of Julian Assange. Assange is currently in the middle of his third year of confinement in […]
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Iran’s anti-morality police protests: a different view from the ground

October 12, 2022 Max Blumenthal
Setareh Sadeghi, an Esfahan, Iran-based scholar and teacher, provides Max Blumenthal with a complex view of Iran’s protests against the country’s morality police and the death of Mahsa Amini never heard in U.S. mainstream media. […]
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Haitians protest threat of foreign military intervention in the country

October 12, 2022 Tanya Wadhwa
De-facto leader Ariel Henry’s request for foreign military support to curb gang violence has generated widespread criticism among civil society organizations, political and social leaders, and citizens in general. On Monday October 10, under the […]