GST Original Articles
By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume / 15 December 2022
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That the world hasn’t been the same since the ignition of the Atomic Age in the 1940s is certainly an understatement, yet the public’s awareness of how the nuclear industry operates has always been dismally low. Secrecy has played a part—especially in relation to bomb-making activities—but so too has the establishment news media, which focuses on individual events and sidelines institutional factors. So an accident is news (if it’s not covered-up),... Read more
By Franklin Frederick / 14 December 2022
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In 1904, Jack London, the most celebrated American writer of the time, was sent as a reporter to cover the war between Russia and Japan.
According to Daniel A. Métraux, editor of a collection of London’s writings on Asia (1):
“London’s tenure as a journalist in Korea and Manchuria was a revelation to his worldview. As a white man he was a minority observing a war where Asia represented by Japan thoroughly outsmarted and overwhelmed numerically greater forces of the West represented by Russia... Read more
By Charles Posa McFadden / 16 November 2022
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We gain our understanding of the world through the lens of theory. For revolutionaries, the basic laws of behavior of a capitalist system were already understood and advanced over one hundred and fifty years ago by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and their comrades in struggle. Thankfully, their work is constantly being updated and applied to contemporary conditions. We can rely on those who have proven themselves excellent educators for an introduction.
Although many will already have learned... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 07 November 2022
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Dateline: November 7–18, 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Dignitaries from every country will be meeting to discuss climate change at Conference of the Parties (COP) 27 on climate change. Based upon early confirmations, 90 heads of state will attend, lending an aura of importance.
“Climate change is the crisis of our lifetime. If we are not able to reverse the present trend that is leading to a catastrophe in the world, we will be doomed.” (António... Read more
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By Clau O'Brien Moscoso / 30 April 2023
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By Collin P. Poirot and Azadeh Shahshahani / 29 April 2023
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By Ramzy Baroud / 28 April 2023
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On May 15, 2023, the Palestinian Nakba will be 75 years old. Palestinians all over the world will commemorate the tragic occasion, known as the ‘Catastrophe’, when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were made refugees and nearly 500 towns and villages were ethnically cleansed of their inhabitants in historic Palestine between late 1947 and mid-1948. The... Read more