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‘Previously Unknown Massacres’: Why Is Israel Allowed to Own Palestinian History?

Ramzy Baroud December 28, 2021 Ramzy Baroud

Reclaiming history is not an intellectual exercise; it is a necessity, yes, with intellectual and ethical repercussions, but political and legal, as well. Surely, Palestinians do not need to re-write their own history. It is already written. It is time that those who have paid far more attention to the Israeli narrative abandon such illusions and, for once, listen to Palestinian voices, because the truth of the victim is a wholly different story than that of the aggressor, writes Ramzy Baroud.

U.S. President Donald Reagan toasts with South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan during a reception at the Blue House, the South Korean presidential palace in Seoul on November 13, 1983 / credit: White House

South Korean Dictator Dies, Western Media Resurrects a Myth

K.J. Noh December 24, 2021 K.J. Noh

South Korea’s history offers a stark and ominous lesson, one the mainstream media would prefer the public ignore. The United States has taken brutal actions to maintain control and hegemony, writes K.J. Noh.

People take part in a protest against the military offensive led by Libyan National Army commander Khalifa Haftar, at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya, on May 17, 2019 / credit: Xinhua/Amru Salahuddien

United States Still Strongarming ‘Democracy’ Onto Libya

Netfa Freeman December 22, 2021 Netfa Freeman

The Western imperialist forces responsible for the overthrow and assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, as well as the destruction of Libya, are now trying to force elections and so-called “democracy” onto the country, writes Netfa Freeman.

A Mapuche protest in Chile / credit: Jubileu Sul

West Complicit in Arming Chile to Violate Mapuche Rights

Carole Concha Bell December 20, 2021 Carole Concha Bell

Between former U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet’s terror laws being used to criminalize Mapuche elders and activists, the United States and the United Kingdom arming Chile’s security forces, and the failure of international agencies to treat the Mapuche conflict with urgency, the West appears complicit in the genocide of the Mapuche people.

More than 15,000 people participated in a November 22, 2021, protest at the White House to express their disappointment with the Biden administration's coercive diplomatic strategy policy towards the democratically elected government of Ethiopia / credit: Twitter/Gennet Negussie

How the Left Can Get Ethiopia Right: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with #NoMore

Filmon Zerai December 17, 2021 Filmon Zerai

In the last few months, the left media outlets from various camps, in their sincere attempts to demonstrate solidarity and spotlight conflict in the Horn of Africa and internal developments in Ethiopia, got it wrong. They have been uncritically centering active ideological players on two opposing camps, writes blogger Filmon Zerai.

Nicaragua receives the first 200,000 doses of a donation of 1 million doses of Sinopharm vaccines. The batch arrived from China with a Nicaraguan delegation headed by Laureano Ortega, who advises President Daniel Ortega on foreign investments, Nicaraguan Minister of Finance Ivan Acosta, and Chinese Foreign Affairs Representative Yu Bo / credit: Kawsachun News

China and Nicaragua: ‘Two Revolutions Working Together’

Abraham Marquez December 16, 2021 Abraham Marquez

Nicaragua leapt forward to defend its national self-determination against U.S. global hegemony when it announced earlier this month it had discontinued diplomatic relations with Taiwan and was ready to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative. This move opens up the small Central American country’s economy to the People’s Republic of China, a country of 1.4 billion people that is rapidly edging toward surpassing the United States and becoming the biggest economy in the world.