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In solidarity with the Ecuadorian people, for the reestablishment of democracy in Ecuador

June 27, 2022 Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity
Declaration of the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity on June 24, 2022 The Ecuadorian people, with the indigenous and peasant movement at the forefront, have taken to the streets to express […]
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Petro’s historic victory in Colombia tilts Latin America more leftward

June 27, 2022 Alejandra Garcia and Gustavo A Maranges
June 21 — This Sunday, Colombia made history. For the first time, a leftist candidate will become president of this Latin America nation that yearns for a definitive regime change. Gustavo Petro, the former rebel fighter […]
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The wide role Brazil’s military has played in the destruction of the Amazon

June 23, 2022 Pedro Marin
  In the Brazilian Amazon, as deforestation reaches record levels and rivers are increasingly polluted, the illegal gold mining contributing to these problems continues largely unabated. The response of the government has been to increase military action to curb environmental […]
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U.S. leads sanctions killing millions

June 19, 2022 Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Jun 7 2022 (IPS) – Food crises, economic stagnation and price increases are worsening unevenly, almost everywhere, following the Ukraine war. Sanctions against Russia have especially hurt those relying on wheat and […]
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Ecuador: CONAIE and unions to maintain national strike

June 17, 2022 Kawsachun News
Mobilizations will continue and key roads remain blocked as the indefinite Ecuador-wide protests against the neoliberal policies of Guillermo Lasso’s administration head into a fourth day. Security forces have been unsuccessful in trying to lift 24 hour […]
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Why does the United States have a military base in Ghana?

June 16, 2022 Vijay Prashad
In April 2018, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, said that Ghana has “not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the United States of America.” His comments came after […]
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The invasion of Lebanon and the nuclear freeze movement

June 14, 2022 Stephen Millies
Lebanon was invaded 40 years ago by the Zionist regime that occupies Palestine. At least 48,000 Arab people were killed or injured in the attack that started June 6, 1982. Apartment buildings in Beirut were […]
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Storms at the Summit of the Americas

June 10, 2022 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
June 7 was a bad day for Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS). During the ninth Summit of the Americas, a young man declared to him what he is: an assassin and puppet of […]
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Celebrating African liberation in Brooklyn, N.Y.

June 1, 2022 Stephen Millies
Frederick Douglass Square in Brooklyn, New York, celebrated African Liberation Day on May 28. People gathered outside Sistas’ Place to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic 1972 ALD marches in San Francisco and Washington, […]
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The rise of NATO in Africa

May 29, 2022 Vijay Prashad
Anxiety about the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) toward the Russian border is one of the causes of the current war in Ukraine. But this is not the only attempt at expansion by NATO, […]