Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence

Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.” By Tamara Pearson This article was originally published by Truthout Atahualpa Sofía Enciso’s children don’t know what a normal river is, she says. Living by the Santiago River in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, which overflows with dense… Read More Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence

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In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for elsewhere?

For now, it is Palestinians who are being killed & displaced. But ideologies of supremacy and domination threaten us all. Ahdaf Soueif Last week, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, put out an AI-generated video that showed a conveyor belt of overweight Palestinian prisoners – dreaming of food and education – entering one of his prisons;… Read More In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for elsewhere?

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9/11: The Saudi Connection – BBC World Service Documentaries

‘FDR’s 1943 proclamation that America would defend Saudi Arabia would be reaffirmed by every American president, most prominently in the 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine and the 1980 Carter Doctrine. In 1944, the United States sent its first military mission to Saudi Arabia, and in 1945 the United States and Saudi Arabia signed a military cooperation agreement… Read More 9/11: The Saudi Connection – BBC World Service Documentaries

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The retired generals sounding the alarm over the West Bank

Katrin Bennhold Good morning, world. Israel’s role as a safe haven for Jewish people after the Holocaust is central to its identity and values as a modern, democratic state. And so it was striking to read, in a recent story by my colleague Azam Ahmed, multiple prominent Israelis, including former military and intelligence officials, using World War… Read More The retired generals sounding the alarm over the West Bank

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The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin review – America can no longer run from its past (2019)

The idea of the frontier in US history has been one of endless promise, but the reality has involved violence, even genocide. As this powerful study argues, its latest incarnation is Trump’s wall Ben Ehrenreich It is hard, as an American, to take much pleasure in the irony that the past appears to be catching… Read More The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin review – America can no longer run from its past (2019)

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वंदे मातरम: आनंदमठ से हिंदू राष्ट्र तक: शुद्धब्रत सेनगुप्त #kadwicoffee

वंदे मातरम: आनंदमठ से हिंदू राष्ट्र तक संसद का एक पूरा सत्र बीत गया. शिक्षा, रोज़गार, महंगाई पर बात लगभग नहीं हुई. आख़िरी दिन एक क़ानून आया — वंदे मातरम का संपूर्ण पाठ न गाना अब ‘राष्ट्रीय अपमान’ के दायरे में है. कड़वी कॉफ़ी की इस कड़ी में कलाकार, लेखक और रक़्स मीडिया कलेक्टिव से… Read More वंदे मातरम: आनंदमठ से हिंदू राष्ट्र तक: शुद्धब्रत सेनगुप्त #kadwicoffee

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Rescue of Nepal hydropower workers ‘triumph for humans and humanity’, tunnelling expert says

Kat Wong There is renewed hope amid the devastation wreaked by the flash flooding disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border as the world witnesses “one of the great rescues of the 21st century”. Nine days after the deadly floods, two workers were pulled out alive from a flooded hydropower tunnel in Nepal. Sanjay Shah and Kabir Maharajan were rescued from… Read More Rescue of Nepal hydropower workers ‘triumph for humans and humanity’, tunnelling expert says

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