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In Upcoming Summit, Latin America Calling out U.S. Double Standards
“This is because many Latin American and Caribbean governments are unhappy with the U.S. government’s decision to exclude Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the summit. The countries of the hemisphere have grown accustomed to U.S. double standards when the arguments of democracy and human rights are flaunted. Who can forget that the United States managed to have Cuba expelled from the Organization of American States (OAS), but never batted an eyelid with the memberships of Chile under Pinochet, Argentina under Videla, or Guatemala under Rios Montt, to name but a few murderous governments?”
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Congress Goes All in With War
The Senate could vote on a $40 billion Ukraine ai…
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Crisis in Science Labs: The Supply Chain Spiral
Supply chain disruptions are affecting scientific lab work across the globe, from worsening vaccine inequity to delaying new research on both Covid-19 and other vaccines. Lee Riley, a professor of epidemiology and infectious disease, told IPA that we can expect similar problems if the case numbers continue to surge in this winter.
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Facebook Lifting Ban on Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion “Stunning”
“‘The ‘grand wizards’ of battling fake news have even dabbled with Holocaust distortion, downplaying WWII-era paramilitaries who slaughtered Jews as mere ‘historic figures’ and Ukrainian nationalist leaders, while attacking members of the U.S. Congress who had denounced Ukraine’s glorification of Nazi collaborators.'”
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Ukraine: “Horrible Dangers” of a Proxy War; Nuclear War
Anatol Lieven writes: writes: “To judge by its latest statements, the Biden administration is increasingly committed to using the conflict in Ukraine to wage a proxy war against Russia, with as its goal the weakening or even destruction of the Russian state. This would mean America adopting a strategy that every U.S. president during the Cold War took great pains to avoid: the sponsorship of war in Europe, bringing with it the acute risk of escalation towards direct military confrontation between Russia and NATO, possibly ending in nuclear catastrophe.”
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Amazon Terminated Paid Sick Leave for Covid-19 After Union Vote
Just one day after union voting ended at Amazon’s LDJ5 warehouse in Staten Island, the company announced it will end its nationwide Covid-19 paid sick leave policy. Labor reporters and activists believe Amazon waited to make the announcement until after the vote. Eileen Appelbaum, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said that the “highly contagious nature of the Omicron variants means workers have an urgent need right now for paid time off if they get sick.”
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Israeli Killing of Palestinian Journalist a “Calculated Act of Savagery”
Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadiliyya and expert on Palestinian affairs and the contemporary Middle East, said today, in the wake of the killing of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh: “The Israeli occupier has repeatedly demonstrated that its priority is impunity, and it cannot be entrusted with either investigation, accountability, or justice for either Shireen or those whom it has deprived of their fundamental rights for more than half a century. But there will be no justice, only an impunity which set the stage for this murder and will set the stage for the next one.”
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Marcos Win in Philippines: Dynasties and Social Media Manipulation
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., known as “Bongbon…
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Scientific Analysis Links Environmental Change and New Diseases
Climate change scholars weigh in on new analysis from scientists that climate change will cause new diseases to emerge more frequently.
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Marking One Million Deaths
New analysis from the Institute for Policy Studies contrasts the nation’s death toll with billionaire wealth gains during the pandemic.
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