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William Bowles
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[l] at 4/29/25 8:29am
Over the past six weeks, the United States has severely escalated its war against the people of Yemen for their resistance against imperialism and their steadfast solidarity with Palestine. U.S. combined naval and air forces have struck Yemen hundreds of times since mid-March. These strikes have mostly targeted civilian infrastructure: dock facilities, fuel silos, grain supplies, residential buildings, and a major sanitation project. 

[Category: Yemen]

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[l] at 4/29/25 8:12am
Tuesday, 29 April 2025 — ColdType Read Issue 268 at https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdTypeMay2025.pdf And at https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype_269_may2025?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ - BACK COPIES   All issues of ColdType (plus the original 6 tabloid versions) are available to read and download at https://issuu.com/coldtype and at www.coldtype.net/reader.html

[Category: Coldtype]

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[l] at 4/28/25 1:35pm
Monday, 28 April 2025 GM Watch GM crops fuel rise in pesticide use despite early promises: study In April 2025, a new study rebutted claims that GM crops cut chemical use. Published in the Journal of Agrarian Change, the research found that GM crops have deepened agriculture’s dependency on pesticides rather than reducing it. []

[Category: Agriculture, Environment, Health]

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[l] at 4/28/25 9:54am
Exclusive: Insiders tell Declassified Labour Friends of Palestine was allowed to ‘wither and die’ under Lisa Nandy’s stewardship.

[Category: Palestine, Labour Friends of Palestine, Labour Party]

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[l] at 4/28/25 8:35am
The US military is preparing for war on China. It has missile systems in the Philippines. Defense Secretary Hegseth says Japan is "war-fighting headquarters". Silicon Valley oligarchs are profiting.

[Category: China, USA, cold war 2]

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[l] at 4/28/25 3:35am
Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms.  For some, its current meaning is defined as unity between all people of African descent across the world.  For others, Pan-Africanism is an ideology defined by nebulous elements of the type of unity previously described.  For still many others, Pan-Africanism is represented by social media famous individuals who claim Pan-Africanism as a set of beliefs without any clear defining criteria.

[Category: Africa, Amilcar Cabral, Kwame Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, Sekou Ture]

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[l] at 4/28/25 2:37am
Last February, I publicly questioned the existence of Jianwei Xun, an author who published a best-selling, critically acclaimed book titled Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk and the New Architecture of Reality. On his website and on academia.org — the original version of his profile can now be found only on Internet Archive — he claimed to be a Hong Kong-born media philosopher, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Critical Digital Studies in Berlin who had studied political philosophy and media at Dublin University.

[Category: Capitalism, Internet, AI, bots, Jianwei Xun]

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[l] at 4/27/25 6:52am
11 April 2025 Edward Curtin Edward Curtin The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found (Clarity Press). My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right. I think she liked but feared this []

[Category: Books, Edward Curtin]

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[l] at 4/27/25 2:34am
A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.

[Category: UK, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Morgan McSweeney]

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[l] at 4/27/25 2:21am
Sunday, 27 April 2025 Dot Commie with a vengeance. By William Bowles Like a really bad meal and you think, I’m not going to that restaurant again. Yet here we are, eating the same, poisonous food and the same horrific consequences play out all over again. And in an irony of ironies, the victims []

[Category: William Bowles - Essays]

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[l] at 4/26/25 9:30am
Geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar returns from a bombshell trip to China and reveals the deep trouble that Trump finds himself in as he admits a shocking string of defeats to the rising multipolar world leaders of China and Russia. This must-watch stream exposes what comes next as the empire of chaos seeks total war on BRICS in rapid fashion.

[Category: Videos, World, BRICS]

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[l] at 4/26/25 9:15am
One must stop and ask that if the US was aware that its operations in Yemen would have such limited results, why would it undertake such a risky and expensive operation in the first place? 

[Category: Europe, Yemen]

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[l] at 4/26/25 3:06am
On 16th April 2025, five crusty old judges in the UK Supreme Court decided what a woman is (in the context of the Equality Act 2010). Hard luck, fellow women, it seems that our biology is our destiny. The Supreme Court ruled that the definition of a woman is based on ‘biological sex’ (an unclear term in itself) and therefore excludes trans women. How bloody depressing. The court didn’t hear from a single trans person during its deliberations. The case was brought by an organisation called For Women Scotland, a self-described ‘gender critical’ group, against the Scottish government. Their success is a boost for bigots and the far-right and will do nothing to help protect the rights of women.

[Category: Liberties, UK, biological sex, transgender, UK Supreme Court]

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[l] at 4/25/25 2:42am
In a stunning move, Donald Trump has waved the white flag in his trade war with China while offering a "final peace plan" for Ukraine that neither Moscow nor Kiev accept. Geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic joins to break down the multi-front crisis facing the US's unipolar foreign policy regime and its dangerous desperation which China, Russia and the emerging multipolar world are confronting in big ways.

[Category: China, USA, Videos, tariffs]

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[l] at 4/25/25 2:23am
Israel has deployed SkyStriker drones manufactured by Elbit Systems in several attacks in Gaza over the past week, killing at least 30 Palestinians sheltering in tents, including 14 children

[Category: Palestine, Elbit, ethnic cleansing, Gaza Genocide]

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[l] at 4/24/25 10:54am
This Saturday, Refugee Crisis Foundation are hosting a powerful event at *King’s College London* along with keynote speaker *Ambassador Dr Husam Zomlot

[Category: London, Palestine, Gaza Genocide]

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[l] at 4/24/25 10:27am
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 NetPol Following the launch of “This is Repression”, our recent report analysing protests between January and December 2024, Netpol and the Article 11 Trust now seek evidence and testimony from protest organisers and participants covering events in 2025. Our first “State of Protest” report covered the ongoing demonstrations against the []

[Category: Liberties, National Security State, UK, police repression]

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[l] at 4/24/25 9:30am
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 Palestine is still the Issue It’s day 559 of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Join us at 5 pm UK time for the weekly livestream from The Electronic Intifada. We’ll be joined by Chris Godshall-Bennett, legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. We’ll discuss fighting back against the Trump administration’s escalating []

[Category: Palestine, Videos, Gaza Genocide]

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[l] at 4/24/25 8:40am
On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman in northern Saint-Domingue, in the French-owned part of Hispaniola. Boukman was captured in Senegambia (now Senegal and The Gambia), and Fatiman was the daughter of a woman from the Congo (as Aimé Césaire wrote) and a man from Corsica. Their ceremony amidst over two hundred enslaved Africans was the catalyst for a mass uprising across the French plantations. Boukman, in Kreyòl, spoke words that were passed down through memory for generations and eventually entered the history books (including C. L. R. James’s 1938 classic The Black Jacobins):

[Category: Haiti, Tricontinental]

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[l] at 4/24/25 7:59am
The reason invoked for his detention by armed air port security was the Firearms Act. One of the officers present stated that due to the conflict tensions are high and a complaint had be received. The man was simply wearing a shirt, which should be his right protected under free speech.

[Category: Palestine, UK]

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[l] at 4/23/25 4:14pm
There is beginning to be sufficient evidence to draw tentative estimates of who is winning the war. This article examines the initial results. The real difficulty lies with Trump himself because he changes his positions virtually daily making commenting on developments awkward.

[Category: Capitalism, China, USA]

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