One Year of Ukraine War: The World Demands Peace + Vijay Prashad: How Far Will it Go?

NATO is the problem - Not the answer

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March 1, 2023

Peoples Dispatch on Mar 1, 2023

To mark one year of the war in Ukraine, people across Europe took to the streets demanding an end to the conflict and NATO’s destructive and expansionist policies. While attempts at negotiations have been made, with the latest being China’s peace proposal, the West has regularly dismissed them.

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Jodi Dean: A Proposal to Save the Climate: Decommodify, Decolonize and Decarbonize the Country

Ende Gelände: Day 1 - Climate activists shut down one of Europe's largest opencast lignite mines

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February 18, 2023

BreakThrough News on Jan 13, 2023

After years of catastrophic droughts, deadly storms have put 90% of Californians under flood watch. The torrential rainstorms in the state have created deadly flooding and mudslides that have killed 17 and left hundreds of thousands without power. The flooding in California, along with the deadly winter storm that ravaged much of the US through Christmas, is part of the long-predicted impacts of climate change.

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Brian Becker: How the State Attacked Socialism in the US: Infiltration, Violence, Deportation

Unions Behind Labor Day

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BreakThrough News on Aug 25, 2022

Welcome to a special crossover of Dispatches with Rania Khalek and The Socialist Program with Brian Becker!

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Vijay Prashad: The Coming Food Crisis: Ukraine War Is Wake-Up Call for Global South

Freeze Prices - Not the Poor.

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BreakThrough News on Apr 4, 2022

As the war continues in Ukraine, food prices are going up worldwide – because the world is interdependent on others for food and energy. Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine took place this week in Turkey. Is there hope for peace? What’s coming next?

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Ali Abunimah and Rania Khalek: Ukraine War Exposes US Hypocrisy, Double Standards and Racism

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BreakThrough News on Mar 1, 2022

It’s not for nothing that the US has been called the “United States of Amnesia.” The same leaders who invaded Iraq and killed a million people, who are starving Yemenis and Afghans, who label Palestinians “terrorists” for throwing rocks, and who took every opportunity to escalate rather than de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine since 2014, have suddenly dusted off their international law books with regard to Russia and are celebrating and promising to arm the Ukranian resistance.

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Chris Hedges: Israel’s Secret Weapons—”Combat-Tested” Against the People of Gaza

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with Chris Hedges

Originally on RT America on Dec 17, 2016

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 7, 2022

On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses the influence of the Israeli arms industry with independent journalist Rania Khalek. They examine the Israeli weapons and tactics that are tested on Palestinians in occupied territory and then sold to the world. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the global reach of the Israeli defense industry.

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Greg Palast on Condoleezza Rice teaming up with Chevron

with Greg Palast
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June 3, 2011

Chevron's Toxic Legacy in Ecuador's Amazon

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on Jun 3, 2011

Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has teamed up with the Chevron Oil Corporation and a think tank to reduce poverty worldwide. While Rice has been long affiliated with Chevron, their gameplan seems the most unlikely part of the equation. Chevron wouldn’t pay for poisoning 1,400 people by dumping oil in Ecuador, so why would they care about the Third World now? Investigative journalist Greg Palast says this partnership is fooling no one but the American press.

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