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The burning down of Brazil’s national museum: A capitalist crime against the heritage of humanity
By Bill Van Auken Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was gutted Sunday night by a massive fire that consumed not only the historic 19tth century palace that housed the institution, but a vast and irreplaceable collection of what…
Four Antiwar Congress Members — Maybe
By David Swanson Ayanna Pressley just won a Democratic Primary in a Democratic Congressional District in Massachusetts. While most candidates for Congress have websites completely devoid of any mention of foreign policy whatsoever, Pressley has one with a substantive position on foreign…
Truly Project Hate: the third scandal of the official Vote Leave campaign headed by Boris Johnson
By MARTIN SHAW 30 August 2018 for openDemocracy Look at the Vote Leave Facebook adverts alongside their more public propaganda, and you see quite how much it promoted racist ideas. Boris Johnson’s weaponisation of the burqa came on the heels…
Lula Could Achieve Historic Victory in First Round of Elections
Brasilia, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Political prisoner for 145 days today, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is in conditions to achieve historic victory in the first round of presidential elections scheduled for next October 7. If elections were held…
Moni Ovadia: accusing those who criticise Israel’s politics of anti-Semitism is shameful
Moni Ovadia is an Italian theatre actor, musician, singer and author. He has long been engaged in the search for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which earned him the Premio Colombe for Peace in 2005; we asked him for…
Face 2 Face with Jessica Ramos
On this show we speak with Jessica Ramos, candidate for New York State Senate in Queens District 13. Jessica speaks about what motivated her to run and gives us an overview of the political landscape at the state level for…
‘Be careful about what you believe’ – Ken Livingstone on US, UK media bias & lies
Ken Livingstone for RT, Published time: 20 Aug, 2018 14:32 Edited time: 21 Aug, 2018 09:55 Today it seems like we are in another Cold War. It was breathtaking to watch our PM Theresa May immediately blaming Russia for the poisoning of…
United Kingdom: A gangster state
Max Weber defined a key attribute of a state as holding the monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence within a given territory. For anybody other than the state to use substantive physical force against you or to imprison you…
Three Antiwar Congress Members
Rashida Tlaib has nothing about war or peace on her website. And she’s going to be elected to the seat held by Congressman John Conyers, famous for giving speeches for things like impeaching George W. Bush while telling reporters and…
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