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The real threat from China: they have a better capitalist system than ours

9 min read PATRICK LAWRENCE

PATRICK LAWRENCE
What are we doing to train the doctors and scientists needed to find our way in the XNUMXst century? What are we doing to bring the dispossessed into the economy, to address drug addiction and the rest of our social ills? What are we doing (I mean seriously) to repair and build the infrastructure we need?

The Chinese challenge could and should be understood as an opportunity to reinvent the US through a Great Mobilization on the magnitude of the New Deal. Of course, this idea is nothing more than hot air. Instead, we are sacrificing this historic opportunity in favor of military-industrial development.

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Kensington in Philadelphia, known as the "zombie neighborhood." Image taken from a video by youtuber Kim Gary.
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Fentanyl: the largest narcotics crisis in US history

9 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ

Two years ago, YouTuber KimGary began posting on his channel the well-known videos about the massive presence of drug addicts on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia. Under other circumstances, his recordings would be unremarkable and would not have been broadcast around the globe. But this town in the state of Pennsylvania is not the only one affected by the serious "narcocrisis" that the United States is facing.

In 2021 alone (the latest date for which reliable data is available), 106.699 of your fellow citizens died from an overdose. Records of this type of death have increased by 33,8% since 2019, which means that the problem not only persists, but has worsened.

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Demonstration in Washington on July 27 demanding an official end to the Korean War. Photo: Women Cross DMZ
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Korean War Continues With Biden's Renewed North Korea Travel Ban

9 min read AMANDA YEE

AMANDA YEE
On August 22, the US State Department renewed the ban preventing US passport holders from traveling to North Korea. This measure prevents 100.000 Korean residents in the US from visiting their relatives in North Korea. It was first launched by the Trump Administration in 2017, and—despite repeated calls from Korean activists to lift it—it has been renewed every year since.

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Gabon: the fall of “Obama's man in Africa”

7 min read MAX BLUMENTHAL

MAX BLUMENTHAL
Before his removal in a military coup, Gabon's corrupt president, Ali Bongo, was courted by Obama and feted from Washington to Davos. The US war in Libya, which destabilized the region, might not have succeeded without him.
When a military junta arrested President Ali Bongo Odinmba on August 30, Gabon became the ninth African nation to overthrow its government in a military coup.

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“The decarbonization of the rich is not ours”

10 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
Green colonialism or green capitalism is what critical environmentalism calls the exploitation of natural resources from the global North over the global South, and which will make it possible to guarantee the energy transition that industrialized countries boast so much about, that is, those that more pollute. But the energy transition requires natural resources that the north does not have, such as lithium or green hydrogen.

While the socio-environmentalist denounces the serious consequences of plundering practices, governments and corporations close agreements. Even countries that show irreconcilable differences in world geopolitics shake hands in their territories and seal commitments. On the side of Latin American progressives, the more or less critical position regarding extractivism depends on whether they are a government or not, and on the pressing economic needs that make them dependent on foreign currency.

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The dark secrets of the US biological laboratories

6 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The public debate on the origin of the global pandemic of COVID-19 continues to unfold almost four years after it began. The most supported theory is that the virus that caused it arose naturally, being transferred to the first human being who contracted the disease from an infected animal.

American science journalist Alison Young defends a second version of the disease's origin story in her book Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk.

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Of Chinese bases, crickets, vaccines and nuclear submarines in Cuba

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Last June, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, stated that, according to the intelligence information available to them, China was strengthening its infrastructure for data collection in foreign countries, and added more specifically that "the People's Republic China had carried out an upgrade of its intelligence gathering facilities in Cuba in 2019."

The news was reported by The Wall Street Journal, adding that while Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with President Xi Jinping, China was negotiating to establish a military training center in Cuba, which would put thousands of soldiers 90 miles away. off the coast of Florida.

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The transformation of Russia and the scenes of war

9 min read RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
It took them years in Moscow to understand the seriousness of the Western globalist project that envisioned a subaltern Russia with a comprador national elite subordinated to the large Western transnationals. They were slow to understand that there was no intention of recognizing "sovereignties" or private preserves of the Russian oligarchic elite derived from the traditional state control that this elite has of business, privatizations and embezzlement in the largest country in the world.

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Democracy, preliminaries for the 'fitna'

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The crisis of liberal democracy is rampant everywhere. In essence, it does not respond solely to a lack of leadership, but also to convictions that are increasingly deeply rooted in individuals from different layers of Western society. To this must be added the clearly reactionary values ​​on the rise, including identity values ​​that are at war with the rationalism that originated with the Enlightenment.

The result is a more fragile society, barely able to cope with the challenges of the times, with many people who see liberal values ​​as unbearable oppression and seek direct confrontation with the enemy without realizing that this attitude carries risks. .

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Wait and see

3 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
The visit of the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to China has the main merit of having recovered a certain normality in the bilateral dialogue, showing that there is a relative potential for easing tensions.

It also seems to have paved the way and cleared up some unknowns regarding the bilateral performance in some upcoming summits such as the G20 in India (in September) or the APEC (in November) in the US, which stand out on the agenda of the second semester of the year

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Fifteen reasons why media employees act like propagandists

28 min read CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
If you look at the Western media with a critical eye, you end up noticing how their reporting consistently aligns with the interests of the US centralized empire, much as you would expect if they were government-run propaganda outlets. That this extreme bias occurs is obvious and indisputable to anyone paying attention, but why and how it occurs is harder to see.

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