February 7, 2023
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Abahlali baseMjondolo and the fight of the organized poor against a hostile justice system
Months after being imprisoned on a murder charge, three leaders of the eKhenana Commune of Abahlali baseMjondolo have been finally granted bail. Their arrests are part of a lengthy history of violent persecution of the shack dwellers’ movement Continue reading
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With tanks on the way, Nato is inching toward full-scale war with Russia
Almost as soon as major Nato countries, led by the US, promised to supply Ukraine with battle tanks, the cry went up warning that tanks alone would be unlikely to turn the war’s tide against Russia. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 6-7 February 2023
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — The New Dark Age All Aspects Of The U.S.-And-Allied War Against Russia Are Now Failing https://orientalreview.org/2023/02/07/all-aspects-of-the-u-s-and-allied-war-against-russia-are-now-failing/ Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the country’s declining birth rate https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/07/japanese-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-on-the-countrys-declining-birth-rate/ Chris Hedges: A Declining US Empire Is Committing Suicide https://popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-a-declining-us-empire-is-committing-suicide/ Continue reading
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Earthquake Damage In Syria Must Lead To Sanction Relief
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — Moon of Alabama Earlier today two large earthquakes have caused widespread damage in south Turkey and north Syria: Nine hours after a first earthquake of magnitude M7.8 that hits south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, February 6th 2023 at 1h17 UTC, a second M7.5 occurs (at 10h24 UTC) 100km further north. More Continue reading
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Lee Camp & David Swanson: Can The March To WW3 Be Stopped?
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — MintPress News Can the US proxy war in Ukraine be stopped? Where is the cold war with China leading? Does NATO create more war than it stops? Can the movement to end all wars succeed? Continue reading
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Adani’s fraudulent empire exposed
A SMALL U.S. investor firm has challenged the Indian behemoth, the Adani group, and shaken it to its foundations. The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshaling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies linked to the… Continue reading
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Keynes and the left
The ideas and theories of John Maynard Keynes still dominate the economic views and policy proposals of the leaders of the labour movement in the major capitalist economies. Keynes is seen as offering a ‘third way’ between the pro-capitalist ‘free market’ economics that dominates the universities (and among the strategic advisers of government) and the… Continue reading
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 