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Capitalist Development and Community Demolitions in Detroit
By Abayomi Azikiwe
One of the latest schemes of the billionaire ruling interests and their agents is the proposal announced by Duggan to issue $200 million in bonds specifically designed to raise monies for the demolition of even more vacant edifices in the city. The stated objective is to eliminate all vacant homes by 2024. Read more...

Persian Peril: Brinkmanship in the Post-INF Treaty Era
By Michael Welch, Scott Ritter, and Bruce Gagnon
Diplomats from China, Russia, Great Britain, Germany and France met with their Iranian counterparts on Friday June 28th in an urgent attempt to steer the Islamic Republic away from breaching conditions of the JCPOA agreement. Read more...

Crisis in Northern Syria: A Look Inside the Real Idlib Today

By Steven Sahiounie
Idlib has always been a small farming area, but the western media has inflated it to gargantuan proportions. There were only 34 hospitals total in Idlib, and yet we hear of dozens of hospitals being hit by airstrikes. Read more...

Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
By Nils Melzer
For once telling the truth has become a crime, while the powerful enjoy impunity, it will be too late to correct the course. We will have surrendered our voice to censorship and our fate to unrestrained tyranny. Read more...

Tanzania’s Decision to Suspend the Bagamoyo Port Project: A Surprise Blow against China’s Silk Road Vision for East Africa
By Andrew Korybko
The East African country has the proud distinction of hosting China’s first modern-day Silk Road, the 1970s TAZARA railway, which is why Tanzania’s decision to suspend the $10 billion Bagamoyo port project that was supposed to be built by the People’s Republic is such a big deal and could greatly hamper Beijing’s regional strategy. Read more...

Investigate Egypt’s Former President Morsi’s Death
By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar
Immediately after Dr Mohammed Morsi’s death on the 17th of June 2019, a number of organisations and individuals had called for a thorough, independent investigation into the cause of his death while on trial in a Cairo court for espionage charges. The United Nations was one of the organisations that demanded an independent investigation. Read more...

Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control
By Ellen Brown
On June 18, Facebook unveiled a white paper outlining ambitious plans to create a new global cryptocurrency called Libra, to be launched in 2020. The New York Times says Facebook has high hopes that Libra will become the foundation for a new financial system free of control by Wall Street power brokers and central banks. Read more...