Labour’s Loss Doesn’t Mean a Leftist Can’t Win

Treating Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s defeat as a “harbinger” of doom for anyone in his mold overlooks the 800-pound gorilla of Brexit, a significant complication to traditional two-party politics. Despite Boris Johnson’s best efforts, his Conservative Party won in a landslide in the recent 2019 United Kingdom general election. I say this because while Johnson [...]

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Syrian Army Advances in Idlib, Thousands Flee to Turkey

As Syrian forces push to eradicate the last of the opposition in Idlib, residents flee to a wary Turkey. Army forces of the Syrian Arab Republic expanded on Sunday their theater of military operations in the northwestern province of Idlib forcing many thousands of residents to flee. According to Syria Now Arabic-language news website, the [...]

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Massive French Strikes Continue Despite Macron’s Efforts To Appease Protesters

France’s ongoing demonstrations reflect a global trend of widespread anger over rampant inequality in the world’s economic and political systems. French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to pacify massive protests over his plans to overhaul the country’s pension system failed on Monday, as demonstrations continued after two weeks of strikes have caused widespread disruption in the [...]

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ICC To Investigate Possible War Crimes In Palestine

“In brief, I am satisfied that war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.” In an unprecedented statement, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Friday that it would open an investigation into possible alleged war crimes committed by both Israeli forces and Palestinians [...]

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Court Rules UK Secret Agents Can Commit ‘Grave Crimes,’ Including Violence

“Today the investigatory powers tribunal decided that MI5 can secretly give informants permission to commit grave crimes in the UK, including violence.” A London court on Friday ruled that Britain’s domestic intelligence service MI5 is permitted to commit serious crimes, potentially including murder, torture, and kidnapping, in a decision condemned by civil liberties groups as [...]

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How to Legalize Ecstasy — And Why

The most serious harmful effect of treating ecstasy use and sales as a criminal matter is that users are forced into an unregulated, no-quality-control black market, and they don’t know what they’re getting. Every weekend, hundreds of thousands of young club- and concert-goers buy and consume black-market pills and powders they hope are MDMA, the methamphetamine relative [...]

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Apple, Google, Tesla Among Companies Named In Lawsuit Over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths

“These companies – the richest companies in the world, these fancy gadget-making companies – have allowed children to be maimed and killed to get their cheap cobalt.” Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Dell have been named in a landmark lawsuit by a human rights group representing Congolese families whose children were killed or injured while [...]

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From Vietnam to Afghanistan, All US Governments Lie

Lies are an integral part of national security operations. They seek credibility for government policy. They mislead adversaries, cover up mistakes and failures. (By Gordon Adams, The Conversation) The Washington Post has, after more than two years of investigation, revealed that senior foreign policy officials in the White House, State and Defense departments have known [...]

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