By Gerry Condon Condon, who was a leading activist among exiled military deserters in Canada, places the role of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in perspective, while presenting a survey of how repulsion against the U.S. occupation of Vietnam drove varied forms of war and draft resistance among U.S. youths. These . . .
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Where there is the potential for profit, even the most ardent climate change deniers will seize the opportunity to take advantage of the damage caused by the climate catastrophe. Such is the case with President-elect Donald Trump and his gang of corporate supporters. Map shows the Northern Sea Route, the . . .
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France began its colonization of West Africa about 175 years ago, when Louis Faidherbe was appointed the colonial governor of Senegal. In the 1960s, France was forced, reluctantly, to grant formal independence to its colonies. These countries were seething with resentment and anger after decades of colonial exploitation, enforced by . . .
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By Lyn Neeley Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa approved a resolution to let the U.S. build military bases on the Galápagos Islands, 600 miles west of Ecuador’s coastline in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Armed Forces will arrive on Jan. 10 with ships, submarines, personnel, weapons and military equipment to control . . .
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Capitalism, and class societies generally, have always been defined by poor housing conditions for the working classes. Contrary to popular myth, homelessness is not the result of individual failures or particular party governance, but rather an inbuilt inequity in the distribution of resources that permeates all class societies, which is . . .
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