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Brexit ‘purity’ is breaking up the union. Just ask the people of Belfast
Jun 22, 2021 04:57UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson could ease the tension in Ireland and remove the need for checks on 80% of the goods crossing into Northern Ireland by accepting European Union food safety and sanitary standards.
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World's most powerful imprison Julian Assange for his virtues—not his vices
Jun 15, 2021 18:09They came after Julian because he exposed the more than 15,000 unreported deaths of Iraqi civilians; because he exposed the torture and abuse of some 800 men and boys, aged between 14 and 89, at Guantánamo; because he exposed that Hillary Clinton in 2009 ordered US diplomats to spy on U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and other U.N. representatives from China, France, Russia, and the UK.
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EU adds another rare blood condition as side effect of AstraZeneca, vaccine inequality causes ‘two-track pandemic’
Jun 13, 2021 19:22World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says vaccine inequality between rich and poor countries has created “a two-track pandemic.”
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Denmark helped US spy on Angela Merkel and European allies – report
Jun 02, 2021 19:47Reports that Denmark’s military intelligence agency helped the US to spy on leading European politicians, including the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, have sparked concern – and demands for an explanation – in EU capitals.
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UK ‘faces labour shortages’ as COVID and Brexit fuel exodus of overseas workers
May 18, 2021 19:33Britain’s employers are struggling to hire staff as lockdown lifts amid an exodus of overseas workers caused by the COVID pandemic and Brexit, industry figures reveal.
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After hoarding, West bickers on sharing patents as virus kills in droves
May 13, 2021 15:26South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned of “vaccine apartheid” as millions of people in poor countries are dying of the coronavirus with no access to vaccines and wealthy countries are hogging shots.
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Support for new malaria vaccine may be lacking in rich world
May 13, 2021 15:17The first efforts to eradicate malaria began in the 1950s under the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (one that decided to leave sub-Saharan Africa out of the “global” campaign), making use of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine and spraying large areas with the insecticide DDT.
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$152 trillion. That's how much wealthy countries 'drained' from the Global South since 1960
May 09, 2021 19:17Capitalist powers have drained $152 trillion from the Global South since 1960, according to new peer-reviewed research quantifying the reproduction of inequality on the world scale.
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Is Israel worth it?
May 08, 2021 16:00According to “If Americans Knew,” the US supports Israel with 10.5 million dollars in military aid, every day! That is despite the growing economic despair in the United States and having a dilapidated infrastructure.
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World’s most tyrannical regime can’t stop babbling about 'human rights'
May 08, 2021 15:58Like all US secretaries of state, Antony Blinken’s public statements overwhelmingly focus on the claim that other nations abuse human rights, and that it is America’s duty to defend those rights. Which is very silly, considering the fact that the US government is the single worst human rights abuser on planet Earth.