How Biden Looks at the World
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
In his first foreign policy speech as president, delivered at the State Department on February 4, 2021, Joe Biden laid out his vision of America's engagement with the world. In its conventional combination of the stick of military power and the carrot of diplomacy, Biden's address heralded a return to the foreign policy status quo of the…
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Columbia graduate students resist efforts to shut down their strike
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
There is immense hostility among rank-and-file members to the machinations happening behind the scenes over the Columbia strike.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/grad…

Nawal El-Saadawi and the Barriers of Patriarchy
B. Nimri Aziz | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
I often quote one simple statement by Nawal El-Saadawi– a bold and brilliant retort to a question put to her by an NPR radio host many years ago. A lesson for me, but for many others too. I was accompanying the Egyptian writer to the Manhattan studio of the national radio network, and sat behind…
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Coastal Darkening Threatens Ocean Food Chains
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2021-03-26
In 2019, Maeve McGovern and fellow researchers at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment at the University Oldenburg in Germany began studying a new phenomenon in…
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Biden demands resumption of in-person learning in "school reopening summit"
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
The event, chaired by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, had an Orwellian and highly contradictory character, in which the various speakers sought to sugarcoat the deadly drive to reopen schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/scho…

Chevron, ExxonMobil and BlackRock want to teach the Left about "extractivism" in Latin America
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-03-26
Americas Quarterly and AS/COA's media arm ran a de-facto PR campaign for discredited Operation Lava Jato, which helped impeach Dilma Rousseff, jail Lula, and bring a neofascist (who it called an "arch-conservative") Jair Bolsonaro to power. | MR Online | March 26, 2021 | Newswire…
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This Week's Most Popular Articles
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
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Lift the Blockade on Yemen Now
Charles Pierson | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
Since 2015, the US has been assisting a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates which is at war with Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The coalition's declared aim is to restore the government of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi who the Houthis overthrew in 2014. The US supports the coalition with intelligence sharing, targeting assistance, arms sales, spare parts for coalition warplanes, and (until November 2018) in-flight refueling of coalition aircraft.
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India's Farm Crisis: "We Will Protest as Long as Possible"
Parth M.N. | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
"No parent should experience the trauma of losing a child," says Sirvikramjeet Singh Hundal, father of Navreet Singh, who died on January 26, during the farmers' tractor rally in Delhi. At their home in Uttar Pradesh's Dibdiba village, Navreet's portrait rests against a wall of the room where Sirvikramjeet, 45, and his wife, Paramjeet Kaur,…
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Blinken's Reconciliatory Europe Trip Solves No Major Disputes
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday wrapped up a three-day visit to Brussels, which was meant for a new chapter of his country's relations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). | RELATED: | Biden's Remark on Putin Confirmed by National Security Adviser | "I came here with one particular focus in mind, and that was to make clear the United States' determination to revitalize our alliances and partnerships," said Blinken at a meeting in which NATO fore…
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El Salvador Tightens Penalties for Illegal Migration Promoters
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
El Salvador's Congress on Thursday approved a law against human trafficking, which increases aggravating circumstances and penalties for this crime. | RELATED: | Over 9,400 Unaccompanied Minors Entered the US Recently | The new norm applies to people who use communication technologies to promote migration evading migratory controls. | It also increases the penalties to up to 12 years of imprisonment and authorizes the closing of organizations or companies promoting this offense. | Ag…
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Art and Money Today: Goya Meets Beeple
Stephen F. Eisenman | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
Tale of Two Artworks On March 11, 2021, I bought an etching by Francisco Goya for $500 on eBay. On the same day, two people with the pseudonyms Metakovan and Twobadour bought a Non Fungible Token by Mike Winkelmann (pseud. "Beeple") for an astonishing $69 million at an online Christies auction. An NFT is a…
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Baton Rouge Police Department Unleashes Dogs on to Black Teens
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2021-03-26
In June 2019, Charles Carey, 17, was riding his bike through north Baton Rouge, Louisiana when a nearby police cruiser flipped on its lights. Having thought that police wanted him…
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U.S. props up unpopular Haitian regime on verge of collapse
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2021-03-26
March 21 — In the past week, one group of Haitian cops attacked at least two precincts, released prisoners who they said were being held illegally, set fires, sacked a car dealership and demanded the government retrieve the bodies of cops who died in a March 12 ambush. In the . . . | Continue reading U.S. props up unpopular Haitian regime on verge of collapse at Workers.org…
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Mr. Fish: The Political Cartoon Is Dead: Long Live the Cartoonist
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-03-26
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play Political cartoons have helped us make sense of the world in which we live since they first appeared in the 18th century–though some, like the iconic cartoonist Mr. Fish, argue the art predates even newspapers. Although it's an art form that is in many ways dying out, there are a precious few political cartoonists out there that still understand… | Source…
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Puerto Rico Removes Obstacles To Priority Infrastructure Works
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
Puerto Rico's Governor Pedro Pierluisi on Thursday declared a "state of emergency" to prioritize infrastructure projects targeting damages caused by natural disasters in his country. | RELATED: | Puerto Rico: Mayors Demand a $922 MM Budget To Boost Localities | The measure seeks to expedite funding and the issuance of recommendations and permits for critical infrastructure projects such as hospital facilities, public schools, aqueducts, and reservoirs. | His Executive Order cre…
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Hope on the cliff's edge in Brazil
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-26
The country's president has reacted to the ongoing tragedy not with compassion but with exaggerated toughness.
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Western Civilization: Method in Their Madness
S. M. Smyth | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. — H.W. | …
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Oppose the UAW sellout of the Columbia graduate student strike!
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
Graduate students at Columbia are resisting efforts by the UAW to shut down the strike.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/colu…

Tension in the Taiwan Strait: the US Carrier on China's Front Door
Tom Clifford | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
China shifted its gaze and few paid attention. China of the Great Wall, constructed to keep foreigners out, is now China of the great wave, with a navy to deter invasion and secure the three seas, the San Hai: the South China, East China and Yellow seas. The century of humiliation up to 1949, as every…
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Rethinking Food and Agriculture: New Ways Forward
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
Agriculture is at the root of multiple crises facing humanity today. Environmentally, it is responsible for habitat destruction, topsoil loss, aquifer depletion, pesticide and fertilizer pollution, ocean dead zones, dubious genetic experimentation, and a tremendous amount of green house gas emissions. Socially, its practice depends on a permanent underclass of slave-like labor controlled by monopolistic…
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Associate of Hunter Biden Defense Attorney Appointed to DOJ Position in Biden Administration
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2021-03-26
Nicholas McQuaid was an attorney with Latham & Watkins, working at their New York office for many years. On January 21, 2021, President Joe Biden appointed McQuaid as the assistant…
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Oakland, Marin County to launch pilot programs for guaranteed income
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2021-03-26
OAKLAND, Calif.–Communities around the San Francisco Bay Area are joining or considering joining the growing movement to test the ways a guaranteed income can help to lift low-income families out of poverty. At a virtual press conference March 23, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced that Oakland will soon launch one of the country's largest guaranteed income …
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Rights of First Nations, Youth Unemployment, Imperialism: Peace Activist Ed Lehman Granted the "Lifetime Achievement Award"
Ed Lehman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
Ed Lehman began protesting for peace during the Vietnam War — …
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Texas solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2021-03-26
Books, tee shirts, and literature on the death penalty and the health of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal were promoted at the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement's booth during a festival held by the National Black United Front on March 21 in Houston. Almost 100 copies of the newly published Jamal . . . | Continue reading Texas solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal at Workers.org…
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I Want Civil Rights, They Want to Talk About Sports
Robin Carver | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
It was a warm afternoon on Fort Myer, just south of Arlington Cemetery, when my Dad said, "Living with you, it's like that movie The Fly." For the uninitiated, David Cronenberg's 1986 sci-fi classic tells the graphic story of Dr. Seth Brundel, an ambitious scientist whose carelessness warps his body, twisting him into an inhuman…
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Globalink | Guatemala's Airport Remains Closed Due To Volcanic Ash
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
The Pacaya volcano in Guatemala has been erupting for weeks. The local airport remained close due to strong volcanic ash.
telesurenglish.net/news/Globalink–Guate…

Why Scottish Independence Could be Main Obstacle to 'Global Britain'
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
Last week the UK's new Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development…
globalresearch.ca/why-scottish-independe…

Russia Denies Accusations of Refusing Dialogue with NATO
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
In a meeting with the press, the spokeswoman said that the statements of NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg 'are not true; this is a lie," she clarified. | She explained that Moscow agreed to engage in a substantive conversation "without getting into a politicized public relations story, for which our Western partners are so renowned." | RELATED: | Russia Halts NATO's Attempts to Strengthen Presence in Arctic | She said that the Russian side proposed establishing a dialogue o…
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Republicans: Against government of, by, and for the people
Michael Payne | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-26
Don't these control freaks understand that when a country like America is in the midst of a crisis it's the job of the government to step in and use all the resources it has to bring it under control?>…
nationofchange.org/2021/03/26/republican…

Second Tree Sitter Extracted On Final Day Of Yellow Finch Blockade
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-26
On Wednesday, March 24th, 2021, the second and final tree sitter at the Yellow Finch blockade in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline was extracted and arrested. This follows the Tuesday arrest of another tree sitter, and marks the final day — day 932 — of the Yellow Finch blockade. | After Tuesday's extraction, police remained on site overnight, shining spotlights at the remaining tree sit. MVP began work again this morning around 7 a.m. By 8 a.m., a rally of local supporters had formed nearby. Around 10 a.m., the large crane that police had brought on site began moving towards the remaining tree…
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The "Corona Crisis" and the War of "The Super-Rich" against the Earth's Citizens
Emanuel Pastreich | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
Corporations, multinational investment banks, and the super-rich that hide behind them …
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Girl Ball Lives
Linda G. Ford | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
At this year's site for the women's college basketball tournament in San Antonio, the disparity between the men and women's status was made clear. Stanford coach Ali Kerschner and Oregon player Sedona Prince posted images of a lavish weight room provided to the men players while they got six or seven dumbbells on a rack. Featured pictures also showed the difference in amenities ("swag bags") and the food provided. As I recall there were similar differences in NBA and WNBA bubbles last season.
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Police Use of Dogs as Instruments of Violence Targets People of Color
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2021-03-26
An investigation conducted by several independent news outlets and coordinated by The Marshall Project lays bare mounting evidence of extensive and disproportionate police dog use against people of color across…
projectcensored.org/police-use-of-dogs-a…

An Old Green Colonial Trick: Israel Masking Land Grabs as Environmental Conservation
Jessica Buxbaum | mintpressnews.com | 2021-03-26
"More and more open areas in East Jerusalem are being designated as preservation or national parks, and this is clearly in order to prevent Palestinian urban development." — Sari Kronish, Israeli planning rights organization Bimkom…
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How the Big Oil — Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet
Basav Sen | juancole.com | 2021-03-26
( Foreign Policy in Focus) — This March, the leading global consulting firm IHS Markit held its CERAWeek conference, billed as the ‚Äã"world's premier energy event" bringing together the ‚Äã"Who's Who list of the global energy industry." The conference's keynote speaker and recipient of the Global Energy and Environment Leadership Award was Indian Prime Minister …
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
Pharmacists strike in Lebanon as economy collapses; UK bus strike at Go North West Manchester depot in fifth week; further strike planned by UK energy workers; French workers at Renault foundry strike against closure…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/wkrs…

Major court victory in Denver: Judge dismisses kidnapping charge against leaders of Elijah McClain protests
National Committee for Justice in Denver | liberationnews.org | 2021-03-26
With heaviest charge thrown out, the fight continues for the activists to defeat remaining charges…
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After Ten Years Of Civil War In Syria, US (Quietly) Declares Defeat
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-26
Damascus, Syria – This March marks the 10-year anniversary of the Arab Spring and the protests that rocked Syria, which were a starting point for the ongoing civil war. That conflict has led to over half a million deaths and nearly 13 million people displaced, according to some estimates. | Now, after 10 years of attempts to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad, it appears that many in the U.S. government and media are quietly conceding defeat. | "We tell Syria's human stories so that the 'victors' don't write its history," ran the headline of a CNN article marking the anniversary.
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US officials visit Mexico to organize intensified assault on asylum seekers
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
The essence of the measures is to tighten the US imperialist stranglehold over Central America, which has been the main historic cause of the poverty and violence underlying mass migration.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/migr…

Statement on the 10th anniversary of the U.S. war on Syria
| workers.org | 2021-03-26
The following slightly edited statement was released on March 12, 2021 by the Syria Solidarity Movement — including the International Action Center — on the 10th anniversary of the continuing U.S. war on Syria. Workers World Party has participated in three solidarity delegations to Syria during this 10-year period. Contact . . . | Continue reading Statement on the 10th anniversary of the U.S. war on Syria at Workers.org…
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Texas solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jama
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2021-03-26
Books, tee shirts, and literature on the death penalty and the health of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal were promoted at the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement's booth during a festival held by the National Black United Front on March 21 in Houston. Almost 100 copies of the newly published Jamal . . . | Continue reading Texas solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jama at Workers.org…
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Venezuela Sues the US at the WTO for Coercive Measures
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza on Friday informed that his country sued the U.S. before the World Trade Organization (WTO) for imposing unilateral coercive measures contrary to international norms and principles. | RELATED: | Venezuela To Face Strongly Any Territorial Breach From Colombia | "Sooner rather than later, Venezuela will defeat through law what the U.S. intends to impose through force," he said, recalling that the U.S. blockade seeks to destabili…
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Food Justice files PLANET FARM
Rob Wallace | mronline.org | 2021-03-26
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it's unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace. | MR Online | March 26, 2021 | Newswire…
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The Day I Became Antiwar
Peter Certo | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
Most of us who were alive then remember where we were on the morning of the 9/11 attacks. As we mark the 18th anniversary of the Iraq War this March, I wonder how many also remember where we were that day. On 9/11, I was a Catholic school eighth grader. I'll never forget my teacher,…
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UK's Baroness Caroline Cox Slams the "Undeclared Economic War" on Syria
Baroness Caroline Cox | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
Well, I've had personally the privilege of witnessing the poverty, the …
globalresearch.ca/uk-baroness-caroline-c…

U.S. military had 'clandestine burning' of toxic chemicals in low-income neighborhoods, study finds
Kenny Stancil | peoplesworld.org | 2021-03-26
New research conducted by environmental justice scholars at Vermont's Bennington College reveals that between 2016 and 2020, the U.S. military oversaw the "clandestine burning" of more than 20 million pounds of Aqueous Fire Fighting Foam in low-income communities around the country — even though there is no evidence that incineration destroys the toxic "forever chemicals" that make …
peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-military-ha…

Desperate at the Border
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
Hundreds of thousands of Central Americans wouldn't flood the U.S. border if things weren't pretty bad back home. Destitution, gangs, rampant murder, death squads — that's what people leave behind in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, countries that have all been laboratories for U.S. anti-communist counterinsurgency and economic neo-liberalism. Those U.S. efforts have been a complete and utter bust.
counterpunch.org/2021/03/26/desperate-at…

Suez Canal blocked by grounded ship
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
If, as now expected, it takes weeks to move the ship, the Ever Given, international shipping and global supply chains will be severely disrupted.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/suez…

The Country Moves Forward, Education Falls Back
Gayle Greene | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
There's hope in the air, a scent of spring, anticipation of change, democracy may pull through. Why, then, with K-12 public schools, the broken promise, the dismay? Biden raised hopes when he promised, Dec 16, 2019, that he'd "commit to ending the use of standardized testing in public schools," saying (rightly) that…
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Switzerland Not To Investigate Venezuelan Diplomatic Envoy
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
Prosecutor's Office in Geneva dismissed an investigation against Venezuela's diplomatic envoy Alex Saab over accusations of money laundering via Swiss offshore accounts. | RELATED: | Venezuela Calls To Observe Humanitarian Measures on Saab Case | Saab's investigation was submitted to the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS) based on 22 accounts linked to the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS). | "There is, as it stands, no further evidence to further investigate th…
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Underreported Epidemic of Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2021-03-26
[Editor's note: This Validated Independent News Story was researched and submitted before the March 16, 2021 shootings in Atlanta in which six of those killed–Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Soon…
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Senators Pressure Biden Not to Return to Original Iran Deal
Dave DeCamp | news.antiwar.com | 2021-03-26
A group of 43 Senators sent a letter to President Biden that warned the administration against returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. | The letter called on Biden to address not only Iran's nuclear program but also Tehran's activity in the Middle East and its ballistic missile program, a common talking point from Iran hawks and opponents of the JCPOA. | The letter reads: "Looking ahead, we strongly believe t…
news.antiwar.com/2021/03/25/senators-pre…

Amnesty International USA, Representative Jayapal, Partners Advocate for Passage of Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act
commondreams.org | 2021-03-26
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Biden silent on rise in COVID-19 cases, justifies attacks on immigrants
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
The Biden presidency aims to give a more "humane" presentation to ruthless demands of Wall Street and American imperialism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/bide…

Indigenous Peoples Call for Change from Biden Administration
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2021-03-26
The members of several Indigenous Peoples organizations sent an open letter expressing a series of urgent requests to newly elected President Joe Biden, according to a February 11, 2021 article…
projectcensored.org/indigenous-peoples-c…

Maduro Chairs Preparatory Meeting for Bicentennial Congress
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, chaired this Friday a preparatory meeting of the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples of the World. | More than 1,200 delegates representing different popular and social movements from Latin America and Asia, Europe, and North America participated in the meeting virtually. | RELATED: | President Maduro Opens Bicentennial People's Congress | Convened for June 21-24 of this year, the Congress will be dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the vict…
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Scientist to FDA: You Are Ignoring 'Clear and Present Danger' Associated with COVID Vaccine
Dr. Hooman Noorchashm | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
In an email to FDA officials, Pfizer executives and media, Dr. …
globalresearch.ca/scientist-fda-you-are-…

Profits before lives: German government abandons "Easter pause"
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
Following a storm of criticism from representatives of big business, the German government withdrew the extension of the Easter holiday, which was never more than a symbolic measure to combat a growing wave of COVID-19 infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/merk…

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal seeks to uncover role of the Colombian state in the ongoing genocide
Colombia Informa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-26
The TPP has returned to Colombia for a third time amid a deepening humanitarian crisis in the country. Movements and organizations across social sectors will present witness reports about systematic human rights violations…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/26/permanent…

U.S. Joins "Rules-Based World" on Afghanistan
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2021-03-26
Maybe cooperation over Afghanistan can even be a first step toward broader U.S. cooperation with China, Russia and Iran that will be essential if we are to solve the serious common challenges confronting us all…
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The Historical Challenges Facing the Socialist Movement
István Mészáros | mronline.org | 2021-03-26
The 'crisis of politics,' which cannot be denied today even by the system's worst apologists represents a profound crisis of legitimacy of the established social metabolic mode of reproduction and its overall framework of political control. This is what has brought about the historical actuality of the socialist offensive, although the pursuit of its own […] | MR Online | March 26, 2021 | Monthly Review Essays…
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Historic Wave of Wildcat Strikes for Workers' Rights Ignored
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2021-03-26
After the United States went into lockdown, millions were deemed 'essential workers'–individuals who needed to continue grinding the gears of capitalism at the potential cost of their lives. In response,…
projectcensored.org/historic-wave-of-wil…

Will Drones Really Protect Us? Drugs, Surveillance and the War on Terror
Maya Evans | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
I'm seated in the police Zoom briefing with other council representatives for my small seaside town in England. Our Chief Inspector is telling us about the crisis we have with soaring heroin addiction in the town. The recent surge is contributing to a general increase in crime. The next section of the briefing is about…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/26/will-drones-…

Nearly 3 in 4 New Yorkers Favor Taxing the Rich to Austerity: Poll
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-03-26
Survey shows that voters across political spectrum prefer raising taxes on state's wealthy to cutting essential services and key public programs. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Turkey: Former police chiefs among those convicted in murder of Hrant Dink
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-26
Turkey: Former police chiefs among those convicted in murder of Hrant Dink | Dozens of people handed jail sentences in murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist | Alex MacDonald | Fri, 03/26/2021 – 10: 53 | Demonstrators hold a banner reading 'For Hrant, For Justice' during a gathering in front of the Caglayan courthouse in Istanbul, on 26 March 2021 (AFP) | A court in Istanbul has handed down a verdict of six life…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-hrant-…

Sweeping law to limit voting access passed in the US state of Georgia
Anish R M | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-26
Georgia's state legislature passed a law which drastically reconstitutes the State election board, requires mandatory identification proofs for absentee voters, and makes it illegal to offer food or water to voters standing in line…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/26/sweeping-…

Threat of Authoritarianism Is No Longer on the Horizon: It's Arrived in the GOP
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-03-26
Democracy has always been fragile in the United States, but at the present moment, it has moved from being imperfect to collapsing under the rubric of a failed state. The threat…
truthout.org/articles/threat-of-authorit…

Eritrea To Withdraw Troops From Ethiopia
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that Eritrea would withdraw its troops from the country six months after they were sent to help the Ethiopian government in the Tigray conflict. | RELATED: | Ethiopia: Tigray TPLF Sets Peace Talks Conditions With Gov't | "In our March 26, 2021 discussions with President Isaias Afwerki during my visit to Asmara, the government of Eritrea has agreed to withdraw its forces out of the Ethiopian border," Abiy said on a statement shared via…
telesurenglish.net/news/Eritrea-To-Withd…

More students sent back to Las Vegas schools, as health expert claims Nevada is reaching "herd immunity"
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
More than 26,000 students were sent back into Clark County schools this week even as more virulent and lethal variants spread throughout Nevada.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/vega…

Canada's Liberal government preparing to criminalize looming Port of Montreal dockers' strike
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
According to the Montreal daily La presse, Trudeau's cabinet was presented with the draft of an "emergency" back-to-work bill when it met Monday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/port…

How dissent gets criminalized: America's right to insult the government is under attack
Eric Berkowitz | salon.com | 2021-03-26
Our rights to open, even crude, dissent are relatively recent–and vulnerable to legislative and judicial crackdowns…
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Artist and Writer Chanel Miller on Surviving, Identity, and Activism
aclu.org | 2021-03-26
This week on At Liberty, we're rounding out our Women's History Month series with writer and artist Chanel Miller. Miller jumped into the spotlight back in 2015. First known to the public as "Emily Doe," Miller's victim impact statement from the sentencing hearing of Brock Turner, who sexually assaulted her on Stanford University's campus, went viral. The statement she wrote helped spark the #MeToo movement, but her name was nowhere to be found. | In 2019,…
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Biden Seeks To Compete Against China's Belt and Road Initiative
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-26
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that he touted to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Jonhson the idea of setting an alternative infrastructure plan to compete against China's Belt and Road initiative. | RELATED: | China Highlights Striking Facts on Response To Biden's Attack | "I suggested we should have, essentially, a similar initiative, pulling from the democratic states, helping those communities around the world that need help," Biden said. | New Avenues to be Explored for Be…
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The Olympic Battle for Echo Park
Dave Zirin, Jules Boykoff | thenation.com | 2021-03-26
The Olympic Battle for Echo Park…
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Daniel Ellsberg Isn't Stopping Now
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2021-03-26
Daniel Ellsberg Isn't Stopping Now…
thenation.com/article/world/daniel-ellsb…

Biden's New Foreign Policy Hire Considers Sanctions an Art Form
Aída Chávez | thenation.com | 2021-03-26
Biden's New Foreign Policy Hire Considers Sanctions an Art Form…
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Students in Turkey Are Standing Up for LGBT Rights
Rafael Logroño | thenation.com | 2021-03-26
Bogazici University's LGBTI+ club in January, students across the country launched a nationwide protest movement.
thenation.com/article/world/turkey-lgbt/

In Yemen, 6 Years of Suffering and Death in an Ill-Fated War
William D. Hartung | thenation.com | 2021-03-26
In Yemen, 6 Years of Suffering and Death in an Ill-Fated War…
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A Turtle's Life Cycle?
Jos Sances | thenation.com | 2021-03-26
A Turtle's Life Cycle?
thenation.com/article/environment/a-turt…

Home Care Attendants Are Leading the Fight to Reclaim the Workday
Sara Van Horn, Wen Zhuang | thenation.com | 2021-03-26
Home Care Attendants Are Leading the Fight to Reclaim the Workday…
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The Night the Nazis Came to Murder My Grandfather
John J Heartfield, Lance Hansen | thenation.com | 2021-03-26
The Night the Nazis Came to Murder My Grandfather…
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Welcome to the "COVID Testing Industrial Complex", Which Is Fast Becoming a $100 Billion a Year Industry
Jordan Schachtel | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
This article was first published in December 2020. | The COVID-19 Testing …
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"Fraudulent Marketing": The Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Is an "Unapproved Product" which Is "Permitted for Use"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
First published on March 6, 2021 | Should we trust Big Pharma …
globalresearch.ca/cya-fraudulent-marketi…

"Two Fatal Errors in its Assessment of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic". What SAGE Has Got Wrong
Dr. Mike Yeadon | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
This article was first published in October 2020 | Note: The Strategic Advisory …
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Saudi Arabia reports fire at Jizan oil terminal as Houthis escalate attacks
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-26
Saudi Arabia reports fire at Jizan oil terminal as Houthis escalate attacks | Rebels say they also targeted King Abdelaziz military base in Dammam and military sites in Najran and Asir | MEE and agencies | Fri, 03/26/2021 – 08: 29 | Saudi-backed forces are also under pressure as the Houthis battle towards Marib, the Yemeni government's last northern stronghold in the war-ravaged country (AFP) | A projectile…
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Egypt: Dozens killed by passenger trains colliding
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-26
Egypt: Dozens killed by passenger trains colliding | Social media users share horrific images from the scene of the crash, with victims screaming for rescue | MEE and agencies | Fri, 03/26/2021 – 11: 15 | "> | Two passenger trains collided in the south of Egypt on Friday causing dozens of casualties, the health ministry said. | The incident took place in the village of al-Sawamaa…
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Suez Canal: Ship owner aims to free ship 'tomorrow night'
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-26
Suez Canal: Ship owner aims to free ship 'tomorrow night' | Report in Japanese newspaper comes despite salvage experts warning the rescue operation could last days or even weeks | MEE and agencies | Fri, 03/26/2021 – 09: 31 | Global shipping giant Maersk and Germany's Hapag-Lloyd both said on Thursday that they were looking into going around Africa (AFP) | Shoei Kisen, the Japanese owner of the container shi…
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Git Your Vaccine Incentives!
Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2021-03-26
Let's just hope a smaller percentage of the herd doesn't kill the rest of the herd by making stupid choices.
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Understanding COVID-19 vaccine side effects, why second dose could feel worse
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-03-26
All vaccines could cause some degree of reaction, and the same is true for COVID-19 vaccines. Post-vaccine symptoms are typically mild and resolve quickly without the need to use any medication. Common COVID-19 vaccine side effects include: Redness or soreness at injection site.Muscle aches.Fatigue.Headache.Fever or chills. For some people, the second dose in a COVID-19 vaccine series …
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Selected Articles: "Fraudulent Marketing": The Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Is an "Unapproved Product"
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
"Fraudulent Marketing": The Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Is an "Unapproved Product" which Is "Permitted for Use" | By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 26 2021 | Should we trust Big Pharma Companies which have a criminal record? In a histori…
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'Breathing is an OFFENSIVE WEAPON': UK doctor ridiculed for dramatic warning during Covid vaccine passport debate
rt.com | 2021-03-26
A medical doctor who regularly appears on UK television has sparked mockery online after saying that breathing is an "offensive weapon" if you are infected with Covid-19. | During an appearance on Channel 5's Jeremy Vine show Friday, Dr. Sarah Jarvis said that though she has "always been in favour of people having choice" — citing her respect for patients with cancer who refused treatment because they weren't harming anyone else — Covid-19 is a different reality. | "A big difference here is that breathing is an offensive weapon if you are infected with Covid," Jarvis claimed when asked about compulso…
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Denmark Extends AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Suspension for Three Weeks
Euronews | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
Below is the report of EuroNews confirming Denmark's Decision to Suspend …
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Farmers lead shutdown across India to mark 4 months of protest and other stories
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-26
Today we take a look at a nationwide shutdown led by farmers in India, a controversial voting bill passed in Georgia, US, the annual Peasant March in Paraguay, the results of Israel's parliamentary elections, and reports of the Indian government placing restrictions on exports of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine…
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AstraZeneca Vaccine Correlated to Blood Clots, Death. Norwegian Physician Pà•l Andre Holme
Line Fausko | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-26
Below is the Google Translation of the original article in Norwegian. …
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European Union summit retreats from vaccine export ban
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
Every major capitalist power is engaged in the same beggar thy neighbour policy, with catastrophic consequences that only aids the spread of the virus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/vaeu…

The Heat: Biden Press Conference
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2021-03-26
United States President Joe Biden holds a major news conference. What were the big issues he addressed?>…
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Danny Glover on Amazon Union Drive, the Power of Organized Labor & Centuries of Resistance in Haiti
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-03-26
As workers in Bessemer, Alabama, continue to vote on whether to establish the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States, we speak with actor and activist Danny Glover, who recently joined organizers on the ground to push for a yes vote. "This election is a statement," says Glover, one of the most high-profile supporters of the closely watched union drive. Nearly 6,000 workers, most of them Black, have until March 29 to return their ballots. If workers successfully unionize, it could be a watershed moment for the U.S. labor movement, setting off a wave of union drives at Amazon facilities across the co…
www.democracynow.org/2021/3/26/bessemer_…

Evanston, Illinois, to Pay Reparations to Black Families Harmed by Decades of Racist Housing Policies
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-03-26
Evanston, Illinois, has become the first city in the United States to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery. The Chicago suburb's City Council voted 8 to 1 to distribute $400,000 to eligible Black households, with qualifying residents receiving $25,000 for home repairs or down payments on property. The program is being funded through donations and revenue from a 3% tax on the sale of recreational marijuana, and the city has pledged to distribute $10 million over 10 years. "There's no way to express how significant this is," says Danny Glover…
www.democracynow.org/2021/3/26/evanston_…

Jim Crow Redux: Georgia GOP Governor Signs "Egregious" Voter Suppression Law Targeting Black Voters
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-03-26
Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp has signed a sweeping elections bill that civil rights groups are blasting as the worst voter suppression legislation since the Jim Crow era. The bill grants broad power to state officials to take control of election management from local and county election boards. It also adds new voter ID requirements, severely limits mail-in ballot drop boxes, rejects ballots cast in the wrong precinct and allows conservative activists to challenge the eligibility of an unlimited number of voters. Since the 2020 election, Republican state lawmakers have introduced over 250 bills in 43…
www.democracynow.org/2021/3/26/georgia_v…

UK: Shrewsbury pickets convictions quashed after nearly 50 years
wsws.org | 2021-03-26
The quashing of all the convictions of the Shrewsbury 24 is to be welcomed. It confirms the serious injustice done to a militant section of workers. However, the Labour Party and the trade unions can take no credit for this whatsoever.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/shre…

Zach Snyder's Justice League: a Four Hour Ayn Rand Fantasia
Andrew Stewart | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-26
It might strike some as odd to claim one of the most eagerly-anticipated films of 2021 was originally formulated as an Objectivist epic. Shock might be further compounded upon learning that this film exists thanks to a grassroots campaign not featuring the usual suspects from the Libertarian milieu (Ron Paul supporters, bow-tied dweebs of the…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/26/zach-snyders…

I Want Civil Rights. They Want to Talk About Sports
Robin Savannah Carver | zcomm.org | 2021-03-26
Republicans are leveraging public ignorance about trans people to deny Queer Americans basic civil rights…
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Siberian women strike back with a BIKINI FLASHMOB after local TV host attempts to shame 'naked' youth with model's Instagram shot
rt.com | 2021-03-26
The women of Yakutia, one of Russia's coldest regions, are flooding Instagram with bikini-clad shots after a local TV host attempted to tell off the new generation for posting "revealing" pics, using a photo of a Siberian model. | A host of a TV program airing in the Russian republic that is officially known by its indigenous name Sakha apparently thought it a good idea to criticize the youth for taking pictures while dressed too lightly. While temperatures in Sakha do indeed drop below minus 40 degrees Celsius in winter, the host's concern was not with women getting cold, but their photos allegedly promoting…
rt.com/russia/519304-yakut-women-bikini-…

Taiwan's defense ministry claims incursion by 20 Chinese military aircraft as tensions in region rise
rt.com | 2021-03-26
Defense officials in Taiwan have accused China of launching a massive military fly-by through its airspace, including using nuclear-capable bombers. Beijing has not confirmed the allegation. | In a statement, the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense said Friday that it had warned the squadron of 20 aircraft by radio and deployed its missile systems to "monitor the activity." The ministry also released maps that it claimed showed the route the aircraft took through the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines towards the Chinese mainland. | Four nuclear-capable H-6K bombers, 10 J-16 fighter jets and two Y-8 an…
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WATCH: Three of Russia's nuclear submarines spectacularly & simultaneously emerge from under Arctic ice for first time in history
rt.com | 2021-03-26
For the first time, three Russian Navy nuclear-powered submarines have surfaced from under the Arctic ice simultaneously. | A video released by the Ministry of Defense shows the vessels coming up for air as part of naval exercises. | In the clip, the three submarines, which are around 300m away from each other, slowly break through the 1.5m of ice in the country's far north. | Also on rt.com | | 'Breaking ice to move gas': As Russian tanker-icebreaker duo complete milestone Arctic voyage, climate activists side with ice | After th…
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Plain sailing for meme-makers: Jokes flood in as 'Ever Given' re-float in Suez Canal FAILS and more tugboats called in
rt.com | 2021-03-26
Memes based on the awkward situation in which the 'Ever Given' cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal finds itself continue to flood the internet, as efforts to re-float the vessel fail and more tugboats are called in to help. | The Panama-flagged container ship became lodged sideways in the canal — one of the world's busiest shipping lanes — on Tuesday, after it veered off course in high winds. | However, efforts to re-float the vessel on Friday were "not successful," and two tugs will now arrive to assist on Sunday, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, which manages the ship, said in a statement. | Also on…
rt.com/news/519328-ever-given-memes-refl…

Pakistan successfully test-fires 900km-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2021-03-26
The Pakistani army says it conducted a successful test of its nuclear-capable Shaheen-1A ballistic missile on Friday, in a show of military strength, amid tense relations with India over Kashmir. | The army's media department, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), confirmed in a statement on Friday that a test of the Shaheen-1A missile, which has a range of 900km, had been successfully completed. | Pakistan conducts a successful test of Shaheen 1A surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of 900 kms. Rawalpindi – March 26, 2021 The test flight was aimed at re-validating various design & technical par…
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Lioness spotted sitting on Moscow suburb roof, but owner lashes out at neighbor who put clip online, saying it's perfectly normal
rt.com | 2021-03-26
A row has broken out between neighbors in the Russian village of Kozno, after a video went viral on social media showing a large lioness sunning itself on the roof of a local house, seemingly oblivious to those filming nearby. | In the footage, which looks more like the savannah than a Moscow suburb, the seemingly surprised resident of the property next door claims the creature had escaped. | However, the owner of the lioness, who gave her name only as Natalya, told the Gazeta.ru site that, in fact, this was a tall tail and the neighbors simply had their claws out for her big cat. "We own a zoo," she said.
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Google exposes nine-month counter-terror hacking op by 'friendly' government, raising questions about what makes an ally
rt.com | 2021-03-26
A Google hacking team has exposed — and shut down — an expert counterterrorism hacking operation by a supposed US ally. While the report hid most details, it raised troubling questions on what constitutes an ally in cyberspace. | The tech giant's Project Zero and Threat Analysis Group hacking teams uncovered and ultimately put an end to a counter-terrorism operation being run by a US ally, according to MIT Tech Review, which detailed the internal struggle at Google over whether to publicize the incident and what it implied for future cyber-espionage (apparently, all's fair in love, war, and malware…
rt.com/news/519327-google-hacking-team-m…

Former SNP leader Alex Salmond launches Alba Party to build new case for Scottish independence
rt.com | 2021-03-26
Alex Salmond has launched a new political faction to push for independence as the former Scottish National Party (SNP) leader plots legal action against the Scottish government's handling of sexual harassment claims against him. | Speaking on Friday in a virtual press conference, Alex Salmond said he aims to build a "supermajority" for independence with the creation of the Alba Party (Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland), which will stand for election at the Scottish Parliament elections in May. | "Over the next six weeks we will promote new ideas about taking Scotland forward — giving primacy t…
rt.com/uk/519303-scotland-salmond-alba-p…

México — Otra reunión en la cumbre, para acabar como el parto de los montes
Mouris Salloum George | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-26
Todo estaba preparado para una reunión concluyente con los gobernadores en Palacio Nacional. ‚Äé Se trataba de firmar un Acuerdo Nacional para la Democracia, en el que los principales actores del proceso electoral, del lado del gobierno, se comprometieran, bajo…
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