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Meta is subverting the Bolivian government while enabling the far right

Supporters of the ruling party are finding themselves deplatformed as the social media giant defends the opposition Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has blocked a slew of accounts and groups as part of its “Adversarial Threat”  program. The social media…

Inside the Doomsday Machine: The 2023 Deterrence Summit – Part 2

What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in a hotel basement to find out. Part I of this piece, “Articles of Faith,” described some…

Greece: Give Thomas Katsaros a Fair Examination of His Grounds for Conscientious Objection Under an Amended Legislative Framework in Line With International Law and Standards

Ahead of the hearing on 6 March 2023, before the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, of the case of Thomas Katsaros, whose application for the status of conscientious objector to military service has been rejected by the Minister…

New study: Corporate profits drive up inflation in Australia—not higher wages. Is the wage-price spiral a fairytale?

A recent Australia Institute report has shown that profiteering is the source of the country’s high inflation. This is in contrast to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s fearmongering claims that higher wages are the main threat to economic growth and…

Face 2 Face with Harley Schlanger

On this show, we speak with Harley Schlanger about the present situation in Germany and Europe in front of the Ukraine / Russia conflict. We also discussed the enormous, economic, energetic, and military pressure on Europe by the United States…

Inside the Doomsday Machine: The 2023 Deterrence Summit – Part 1

What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in a hotel basement to find out. The nutshell: They talk about “deterrence” as if there is…

Malcolm X: His Struggle Continues

Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago, on February 21st, 1965, standing at the podium before a crowd in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, and his four daughters, aged 6, 4, 2 and five months,…

They tell it like this

What are the purposes behind the Minsk Agreements? What war is it about and when did it start in Ukraine? What is the 26 September attack on the Nord Stream pipeline evidence of? By Rafael Poch/ctxt Minsk agreements, the peace…

WARNING: Water Beads Toy is Dangerous to Child’s Health

Safe Toys for Kids advocate BAN Toxics warns the public over the continuous selling of water beads toys. The colorful crystal beads are made of superabsorbent polymer chemicals, also known as jelly beads, hydro orbs, crystal soil, and gel beads.…

VISION & GRIT: Exceptional Zero Waste Women in the Asia Pacific Region (ninth in the series)

Nalini Shekar: Giving Waste Pickers Dignity and Legitimacy  by Sherma Benosa Homecoming Nalini Shekar saw at once the missing piece in Bangalore’s solid waste management program — the waste pickers. The regrettable non-inclusion of waste pickers in the conversations on, ironically,…

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