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The scam behind ‘free elections’

April 21, 2024 Andreína Chávez Alava
Hillary Clinton went on a late-night talk show and told U.S. voters to “get over themselves” and choose between Genocide Joe and Donald Trump in this year’s U.S. presidential elections. “Get over yourself. Those are […]
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Columbia crackdown fuels national student protests for Gaza

April 20, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
April 19 — Columbia University students continue their “Gaza solidarity encampment” on the main lawn of the New York City campus, defying a heavy police crackdown, with 122 arrested. The action, coordinated by various student […]
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Never forget the Ludlow, Colorado, and Veracruz, Mexico, massacres

April 19, 2024 Stephen Millies
Over 20 people were killed by the Colorado National Guard in Ludlow on April 20, 1914, during a coal miners’ strike. Eleven of those murdered were children. They choked to death when the tent above […]
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South Korea seizes cargo ship, escalating U.S.-led sanctions and threats

April 15, 2024 Scott Scheffer
 On March 30, the South Korean Coast Guard forcibly seized the 3,000-ton cargo ship De Yi. The stateless ship had left North Korea’s western port of Nampo and was headed to Vladivostok, Russia.  After […]
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Unsustainable war machine: U.S. imperialism in crisis

February 25, 2024 Gary Wilson
 General Smedley Butler said, “War is a racket.” Wikipedia explains that he was referring to the war profiteers and the “imperialist motivations for U.S. foreign policy and wars.” A Guardian headline on Feb. 18 […]
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Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines

December 16, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
From the Philippine Revolution Web Central: The greatest Filipino of the past century bereaved us peacefully last night. Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines, passed away at around […]
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Ten contradictions that plague Biden’s Democracy Summit

December 10, 2021 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
President Biden’s virtual Summit for Democracy on December 9-10 is part of a campaign to restore the United States’ standing in the world, which took such a beating under President Trump’s erratic foreign policies. Biden […]
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World War II: U.S. expanded, and so, Pearl Harbor

December 6, 2021 Vince Copeland
Dec. 7, 2021, marks the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i. The anniversary is being used to ramp up propaganda for the current U.S. military buildup […]
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From Minneapolis to Philippines, shut down U.S.-funded death squads

March 13, 2021 Andrew Concon
Message from Andrew Concon of Maylaya Movement (Baltimore) at the March 7 Baltimore “Justice for George Floyd” rally, part of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression day of action. Today I’m representing the […]
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NATO behind the Turkish attack in Syria

October 27, 2019 Manlio Dinucci
Several members of NATO are currently weeping crocodile tears about the terrible luck of the Kurds, thus masking the fact that they had in fact green-lit ” Operation Peace Spring » in advance. To crush […]