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Poverty is growing in Puerto Rico, under U.S. colonialism: 57.6% of children live in poor households

September 28, 2023 Ben Norton
Poverty is rising in one of the world’s oldest colonies: In Puerto Rico, 41.7% of people, including 57.6% of children, live in poverty. This is nearly four times the U.S. rate. And Puerto Rican workers […]
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Communist Party of Kenya condemns Haiti occupation as Nairobi signs five-year ‘security’ deal with Washington

September 28, 2023 Kim Ives
On Sep. 25, 2023, in Nairobi, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed a five-year deal with Kenya’s Defense Minister Aden Duale in which Washington will give money, weapons, and training to the East African country […]
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Zelensky boasts that ‘game changer’ U.S.-made ‘Abrams’ tanks are already in Ukraine

September 28, 2023 Drago Bosnic
On September 25, the New York Times reported that the Kiev regime frontman Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the delivery of the U.S.-made M1 “Abrams” has started and that the tanks are already in Ukraine, “months […]
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Canada hails Nazi SS veteran from Ukraine as ‘hero’

September 26, 2023 Ali Abunimah
Earlier this month, there was a storm of outrage from Israel, its lobby and sponsors in the West over comments by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas appearing to blame Jews for their own murders by the German […]
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How could Russia respond when Kiev gets ATACMS missiles and armed drones?

September 26, 2023 Drago Bosnic
It’s virtually guaranteed that the Kiev regime will get the MGM-140 ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System), a U.S.-made tactical/theater ballistic missile system with a maximum engagement range of approximately 300 km and a supersonic speed […]
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Low-wage workers of the world, unite!

September 25, 2023 Gary Wilson
War and Lenin in the 21st century, part 5  Lenin’s “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” was written and published during World War I to show that the war was imperialist on all sides. […]
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President of Honduras Xiomara Castro at UN General Assembly (Speech)

September 23, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Today marks one year since my appearance before this assembly, serving as the first female president of the Republic of Honduras, which emerged from the resistance in the streets, fighting against the coup d’état, which overthrew […]
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Libya, devastated by U.S./NATO bombing, unprepared for extreme storm floods

September 17, 2023 Scott Scheffer
 Blame for the horrible flooding that has killed nearly 20,000 people in the city of Derna, with many thousands still unaccounted for in northeastern Libya, belongs squarely on the doorstep of Western capitalism and […]
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Abortion rights advance in Mexico, while Texas wants to trap ‘runaways’

September 14, 2023 Sharon Black and Melinda Butterfield
On Sept. 6, Mexico’s Supreme Court struck down all federal criminal penalties for abortion. The court ruled that national laws prohibiting the medical procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights.   This was a major victory […]
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The lessons of Chile

September 11, 2023 Sam Marcy
Sept. 11 marks the 50th anniversary of the CIA-orchestrated coup against democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende of Chile. Tens of thousands of people were killed or “disappeared” in the aftermath. Even today, new evidence […]