Category: Thinking Politically
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Judicial Sovereignty for Congo and Africa
Western courts have imposed imperial justice on Africa, but African courts promise judicial sovereignty. Courts created by the UN. Security Council to prosecute crimes committed within one nation have been infamously agendized to create and bolster Western imperial narratives. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was used to justify NATO bombing and…
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Germany’s Die Linke: Another way of doing politics
Die Linke’s resounding electoral success at the national level was due to the synergy between a number of different factors. Besides the party’s primary focus on social issues, these included a strong and successful social media campaign and collaborations with online influencers. The impassioned speech delivered on 29 January by party front-runner Heidi Reichinnek in…
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In Colombia, The Hague Group Charges Israel With Genocide
A multilateral coalition arrived to Bogotá to take action to stop Israel’s genocide, despite U.S. condemnation and sanctions against the UN and international courts.
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Unwavering Wayiyans: A Bulletin on the Confederation of Sahel States
Since its confederation in July 2024, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) has been on the move. The “wait and see” attitude toward what some have seen as undemocratic changes in the Sahel is not only no longer useful, it is dangerous. The people of the AES have liberated their territory from neo-colonial puppet leadership…
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Nicaragua Ranks Highest in Gender Equity in the Americas
If you asked 100 people in the U.S. or the U.K. to name the country leading gender equity in the Americas, it’s unlikely anyone would correctly answer Nicaragua. This lack of awareness reflects the success of a decades-long imperialist campaign to discredit and undermine Nicaragua’s remarkable achievements since the 1979 revolution.
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Apocalypse in the Tropics review – how Brazilian politics succumbed to rightwing fundamentalism
Petra Costa explains how screeching evangelical Christian leaders have become kingmakers to all politicians in a chilling documentary that shows democracy on the brink.
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Obscene Wealth
Expose the gross obscenity and a level of wealth inequality in the US that should shame every politician, every mainstream-media commentator, and every cultural influencer who fails to make recognition of this travesty central to his or her message.
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Saul Bellow – Literature and Racism or At War with the 60s
In an interview for the New York Times in 1987, Saul Bellow, the 1976 Nobel Prize winner for literature, asked: “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus, the Proust of the Papuans? I’d be glad to read him.” This question makes no sense, but it reveals Bellow’s belief in the superiority of Western culture. The…
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Israel Turns Gaza Aid Distribution Sites Into Open Killing Fields
As global attention turns to Iran, Israeli attacks on starving Palestinians seeking aid have dramatically increased.









