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Africa, Civil Rights, Commentary, Gabon, Protests, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

The Bongo Family’s 56-Year Rule Over Gabon

August 30, 2023

Elections in the country during the dynasty’s decades in power were  followed by protests, then security force crackdowns and ultimately silence, writes Douglas Yates. Until Wednesday, when the Bongo regime was finally overthrown. 

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Africa, Burkina Faso, France, Gabon, Mali, Niger

Another Regime in ‘French Africa’ Is Toppled

August 30, 2023

Military officers in Gabon on Wednesday overthrew and arrested the country’s president, whose family ruled  since 1967.  It is the fourth coup in a former French African colony in the past three years as pressure mounts on Paris.

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Africa, France, Mali, Niger, Nigeria

Protests Against French Troops Intensify in Niger as War Looms

August 30, 2023

The military government in Niamey has ordered French troops to leave by Sept. 2. With Macron refusing to withdraw and backing possible ECOWAS military intervention, tensions are rising. 

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Analysis, Commentary, History, Media, Russia, Ukraine

US Victim of Own Propaganda in Ukraine War

August 29, 2023

The U.S. embassy in Prague furthered the suppression of the historical context of the Ukraine conflict, which has dangerously trapped Americans in ignorance about the war, reports Joe Lauria. 

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Argentina, Brazil, BRICS, China, Commentary, Economy, Ethiopia, India, Iran

India, a Reluctant BRICS Traveler

August 29, 2023

M.K. Bhadrakumar says BRICS is transforming into the most representative community in the world, with an expanding membership that interacts while bypassing Western pressure.

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Economy, Income Inequality, Labor, United Kingdon

Craig Murray: Destitution Capitalism

August 29, 2023

Ordinary U.K. citizens have been propagandised out of the belief that the state should in any way regulate economic activity for the greater good. 

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Biden Administration, Israel, Libya, Palestine, Protests

Libyan Protests Over Rumors of Normalization with Israel

August 28, 2023

Responding to the strong reactions, the GNU’s prime minister suspended his foreign minister and opened an inquiry into the affair on Sunday, which will be concluded this week. 

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Civil Rights, Column, Commentary, Legal, U.S., U.S. Congress

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Banks, Felons & Jeffrey Epstein

August 28, 2023

JPMorgan Chase is accused of transferring more than $1.1 million from convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to “girls or women.” If so, where were his “suspicious activity” reports?

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Civil Rights, Commentary, History, Human Rights, Music, Racism, U.S.

On the Lincoln Memorial Steps 60 Years Ago Today

August 28, 2023

On Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, something didn’t quite sound right to Mahalia Jackson as she listened to Martin Luther King deliver his prepared speech during the March on Washington, writes Bev-Freda Jackson.

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Australia, China, Japan, NATO, New Zealand, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea, Taiwan

Unease Over New Zealand Overtures to US in Pacific

August 28, 2023

New security-state documents show Wellington aligning its military with the “rules-based international order” while preparing Kiwis for war with key trading partner China, writes Mick Hall.

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Africa, Analysis, Argentina, Brazil, BRICS, China, Commentary, Economy, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gulf States, History, India, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates

WATCH: BRICS at World Historical Turning Point

August 27, 2023

Alexander Mercouris of The Duran discusses the implications for the future resulting from the BRICS summit last week in South Africa. 

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American Empire, Analysis, China, Commentary, Media, Propaganda, Russia

Caitlin Johnstone: In A World Ruled By Propaganda

August 25, 2023

As primates whose survival depended on social cohesion, being rejected by the tribe would mean almost certain death, so it was necessary to conform. But we don’t live in prehistoric times anymore.

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Analysis, Commentary, Labor, Music

DIANA JOHNSTONE: A Voice Heard in the Land

August 25, 2023

Planned obsolescence has been the dominant policy of the Western elite toward the working class since the neoliberal power seizure of the 1980s, a message that comes through in a new song suddenly sweeping the world. 

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Africa, Analysis, Brazil, BRICS, China, Commentary, India, Russia, South Africa

WATCH: BRICS Summit Disappointments

August 25, 2023

The BRICS summit in Johannesburg that ended Thursday took on six new members but in other ways failed to live up to its billing, as explained in this episode of George Galloway’s MOATS.

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Africa, Commentary, Economy, Ghana, Libya, Mali, Niger

The People of Niger Want to Shatter Resignation

August 24, 2023

Most countries of the Sahel were under French rule for almost a century before they emerged from direct colonialism in 1960, only to slip into  neocolonial structures persisting today, writes Vijay Prashad.

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Climate Change, Commentary, Environment, Nuclear Weapons

Caitlin Johnstone: Humanity’s Single Common Foe

August 24, 2023

It’s no longer about nation versus nation, ruler versus ruler, group versus group, person versus person. It’s about humankind versus extinction.

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Argentina, Brazil, China, Commentary, Economy, Ethiopia, Income Inequality, India, Iran, Latin America, Saudi Arabia, U.S., United Arab Emirates

BRICS Leaders Call for Democratic Global Order

August 24, 2023

Amid a membership expansion, leaders of the bloc spoke out against sanctions, conditions on sovereign credit and dollar hegemony,  Abdul Rahman reports.

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Ancient World, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Choosing to Evolve

August 23, 2023

A paper on multilevel cultural evolution shows how looking to our origins might help us improve society at many levels, writes April M. Short.

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Africa, France, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Russia, U.S.

Niger Coup Takes Bonapartist Turn

August 23, 2023

Niger faces a “messy” situation rather than a revolutionary situation. Perhaps, certain Bonapartist elements are discernible — for which, of course, there is plenty of blame to go around, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar. 

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Afghanistan, American Empire, Ancient World, Assange extradition, Commentary, Iraq, Julian Assange, Militarism, Norway, Press Freedom, Religion, U.S., War Crimes, WikiLeaks, Yemen

Chris Hedges: Crucifying Julian Assange

August 23, 2023

This is a sermon the author gave on Sunday in Oslo, Norway, at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture). Actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture passages.

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