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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…
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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…
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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…
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Marcos Win in Philippines: Dynasties and Social Media Manipulation
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., known as “Bongbong” Marcos, has won the Philippine presidency. WALDEN BELLO, [email protected], @WaldenBello Bello ran for vice president. He is chairperson of Laban ng Masa (LnM), “a Philippine national mass movement-based political center with a socialist direction.” He gained notoriety for his rallying cry: “FUCK YOU, MARCOS. THE BATTLE HAS JUST BEGUN”…
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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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Former Negotiator on How the Ukraine War Should End
Quigley notes however that the Biden administration “has framed the conflict in apocalyptic terms as a battle between democracy and authoritarianism. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s claim that the West is viewing the conflict as a proxy war against Russia cannot be lightly dismissed. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has set a long-term aim of weakening…
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Media Shocked by the Leak, Not the Opinion
“…in the flood of coverage, too many elite media outlets focused on the leak itself and treated the issue as a political football, rather than centering the real-world implications the opinion would have for everyday people.”
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“Handbook for a Post-Roe America”
“…the alternative is continuing a pregnancy and giving birth when you don’t want to. There’s no end to the desperation of people who want to terminate a pregnancy.”