Month: January 2023

“Britain’s Tangled Involvement in Yemen” — By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis

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Sept. 27, 2020: Martin Griffiths, U.N. special envoy for Yemen, being interviewed by UNTV in Glion, Switzerland. (UN Photo /Jean Marc Ferré). The loan of a U.K. military officer raises further questions about impartiality of the office of the U.N. special envoy to Yemen when Martin Griffiths, a Briton, was in the post, Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis report.
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“China’s Scientific Supremacy Shifting Balance of Power” — by Caroline Wagner

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In 2022, Chinese researchers published more scientific papers on artificial intelligence than any other nation. Image: Mf3D/E+ via Getty Images / The Conversation

China now publishes more high-quality science papers than any other nation – and the US is and should be worried
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“The Vote for House Speaker Obscured Democratic Treachery” — Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s need for 15 rounds of voting from his party is viewed with alarm or humor. But the right wing proved that activists win if they make demands. Democrats have no members brave enough to confront leadership, and the people’s needs go unmet.
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“Peru Mourns ‘Massacre’ of 17 as Calls Grow for US-Backed ‘Coup Regime’ to Step Down” — by Wyatt Reed

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A shockingly bloody day of violence threatened to upend the new coup-borne regime’s grip on power as Peruvians reacted with horror to the deadliest day so far in the political struggle that has rocked the country for over a month.
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“Human Rights Organizations Warn About the Looming Danger of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing in the Dominican Republic” — Vladimir Fuentes

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Children in 2010 in a camp site in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. At the time, 4,000 displaced Haitians resettled at the site, collaboratively built and maintained by the International Organization for Migration, ShelterBox and civil defense forces from the Dominican Republic / credit: Sophia Paris / United Nations
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