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Israel deployed 200 fighter jets against 100 targets, destroying Iran's defensive and offensive capabilities, attacking sites involved in the nuclear program, and killing numerous nuclear scientists. This destroyed key capabilities of Iran....

Only when we overcome our induced moral apathy, when we are not satisfied with the illusion of being informed, the illusion of democracy and the illusion of freedom do we have a chance of escaping these manipulation techniques. This is not an easy challenge but we have no other choice. The decision is ours....

New wave of xenophobia Today, Germany prides itself on its friendliness toward foreigners. But no sooner have migrants from Turkey and Africa become reasonably integrated and accepted than the next wave of xenophobia arrives, fueled since 2014 by politicians, major parties, and the mainstream media. The talk is about Russians and Russian culture in Germany....

Capital not only fails to reconcile social and climate issues, but is also simply incapable of solving either the climate crisis or the social crisis due to its compulsion to exploit, fueled by escalating contradictions. Consequently, capital must be consigned to history....

The political revolution of 2024 will not be a revolution at all if it merely exchanges one Deep State for another, one deception for another, one enemy for another, Iran instead of Russia, one target group for dehumanization instead of another, trans people or immigrants instead of white men. The real revolution is a revolution of love. It is a revolution of peace. It is a revolution of healing....

The label “climate crisis” is not adequate to describe the dramatic changes that the planet and its inhabitants are undergoing. It is about something much more comprehensive. The climate justice movement recognized this early on: the cause lies in an economic system that is undermining its own foundations....

There is no escape from the totalitarian movement of eternal progress on its own. Capitalism and the financial system behind it thrive on this pseudo-progress by constantly throwing new goods onto the so-called market—goods that no one has asked for, but which are forced upon people by a powerful propaganda machine called marketing....

Two prominent agave farmers, Julián Rodríguez Parra and Salvador Ibarra Landeros, were arrested yesterday in Tequila, Jalisco, following a peaceful protest against multinational tequila producers. The arrests come amid a growing legal battle in the United States. A federal class-action lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of New York accuses Diageo, the global spirits conglomerate, of adulterating its premium tequila brands, Casamigos and Don Julio, with non-agave alcohols....

“Studies on the history of the German-Soviet war all too often ignore the simple fact that (!) the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, was primarily motivated by economic objectives, namely to conquer ‘living space in the East,’” writes historian Rolf-Dieter Müller. Joseph Goebbels declared that it was a “war for grain and bread, for a fully stocked breakfast, lunch, and dinner"...

Doctors Without Borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR, and the International Labor Organization ILO are all based in Geneva. The city is the European hub for UN and non-governmental organizations. With funding cuts not only from the Trump administration, a wave of layoffs is rolling toward humanitarian workers this spring....