UNICEF finds 1 in 4 children under 5 globally, 9 out of 10 in Gaza, experience severe child food poverty
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Image via the Palestinian People's Party UNICEF released a report June 5 that found that 181 million children worldwide under 5 years of...
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Michael Laxer
- May 14
- 5 min
Ravaged by Floods: Afghanistan’s Desperate Plight
Unprecedented flash floods wreak havoc in Afghanistan, leaving devastation in their wake and plunging the nation into crisis. Ghor...
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Michael Laxer
- Apr 18
- 12 min
A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The Lavender AI system is a new weapon developed by Israel, but the kind of kill lists that it generates have a long pedigree in U.S....
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Michael Laxer
- Mar 25
- 6 min
Europe Sleepwalks Through Its Own Dilemmas
Soldiers of NATO’s multinational enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup training with the 1st Estonian Infantry Brigade during Estonia’s...
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Michael Laxer
- Oct 11, 2023
- 1 min
Pakistan Sets Ultimatum for “Illegal Immigrants” to Vacate the Country
The Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan By Global News Service On October 4, Pakistan’s caretaker Interior Minister...
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Michael Laxer
- Sep 28, 2023
- 12 min
The Perilous Path From Western Domination to De-Dollarization
By Justin Podur Two interesting things happened at the BRICS summit in South Africa in August. Several new members were invited to join...
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Michael Laxer
- Mar 3, 2022
- 4 min
The west's hypocrisy and history of violence matters. Calling it out is not "whataboutism".
Opposing NATO, US and western imperialism, aggression, hypocrisy and warmongering is always a must and a duty of every leftist in the...
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Michael Laxer
- Sep 11, 2021
- 11 min
9/11: 20 Years of Retro-Colonial Gambles and Anti-Colonial Reckoning
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite The phone rang that day in my Victoria home at 7am. I heard my partner answer the call as I continued to...
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Michael Laxer
- Aug 21, 2021
- 12 min
Taliban take Kabul: Red Review #19 -- International Left and Labour News
The nineteenth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from the UK, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada and...
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Michael Laxer
- Aug 19, 2021
- 3 min
CP of Spain: The "workers of the world cannot ignore the suffering of Afghanistan"
"Twenty years of war and military occupation in Afghanistan end for the United States with a strategic disaster and a painful withdrawal...
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Michael Laxer
- Aug 14, 2021
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #514
The women's delegation to the International Conference of Solidarity with the People of Afghanistan meets with government officials,...
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Michael Laxer
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
Remembering the Saur Revolution of April 27, 1978
Chemistry students at Kabul University, Afghanistan 1986 Remember the Afghan Saur Revolution of April 27, 1978 and the horrors brought by...
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