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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
No U.S. Invasion of Haiti! The U.S. Government is solely interested in exploiting the Haitian people and preventing them from exercising its sovereignty. It has been this way for over 200 years, ever since the Haitian Revolution, the world in the first successful slave rebellion to establish an independent republic. #Haitian #UnitedStates #Military #Intervention CEO Pay Has Soared…
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The Ballad of the Redwoods
The mighty Guardians of the Pacific Northwest have stood in all their splendid glory since the age of the dinosaurs. These glorious natural monuments are as ancient as they are beautiful. I’m speaking of the Sequoioideae, more commonly known as the Redwood Tree. Nature can be a healing and beautiful place. This weekend besides spending…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
US launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798 “The US has undertaken over 500 international military interventions since 1776, with nearly 60% undertaken between 1950 and 2017,” the project wrote. “What’s more, over one-third of these missions occurred after 1999.” #USForeignPolicy #Politics #international #interventions The queen was not a gentle figurehead for many in Britain’s…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Queen’s death intensifies criticism of British empire’s violent atrocities The death of Queen Elizabeth II revived longstanding criticism in the US over the monarchy’s enrichment from the British empire’s violent colonization of African, Asian and Caribbean nations and their diasporas. #TheQueen #colonialism #imperialism #britishempire Tropical Storm Kay dumps rain on Mexico’s Baja peninsula Hurricane Kay made landfall on a sparsely…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
China issues alert as drought and heatwave put crops at risk “It’s signalling to markets, anyone with the jitters, or thinking of stocking up on food, that: hey everybody is mobilised and we’re going to do everything we can,” said Pay. “It’s also signalling to local province and county level governments that they need to…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Record-breaking heat wave sprawls across US Triple-digit temperatures, while not unusual in the U.S. Southwest, are arriving earlier and more often in the summer season due to climate change. Worse, above-average temperatures are sticking around through the night — another consequence, climate studies show, of planetary warming. In the areas where officials issued excessive heat warnings this weekend,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Uvalde Police Didn’t Move to Save Lives Because That’s Not What Police Do THOSE OF US who have been calling for the defunding of police departments — indeed for police abolition in favor of real, collective public safety practices — have been treated by Democratic and Republican leaders and commentators alike as fanatical #massshooting #DefundThePolice #Texas Colombia presidential election: Leftist Petro and…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh laid to rest Thousands of people gathered for Abu Akleh’s funeral on Friday, including family, friends, and those who only knew Abu Akleh as a mainstay for 15 years in Al Jazeera’s coverage of the occupied Palestinian territories and the lives of everyday Palestinians #Palestine #ShireenAbuAkleh #Israel Prison riot kills…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
5 Mexican Dog Breeds In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, we compiled a list of Mexico’s five native dog breeds and interesting facts about each. Four of the five breeds start with the letter “C” and the other one is a tongue-twister. #Mexico #Dogs #cincodemayo Search for survivors of China building collapse ends, 53 confirmed dead The…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The EU should treat all refugees like it is treating Ukrainians Multiple commentators have argued that Europe’s differential treatment of Ukrainian refugees demonstrates its racism or its neo-colonialism – pointing a discerning finger at the distance between the universal values the EU claims and how these values manifest themselves at a practical level. #EuropeanUnion #Refugees #War #Hope “It’s Going to be Real,”…
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