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By Leonid Bershidsky / Bloomberg View Americans may not realize how their country’s internal political strife is being interpreted by other nations and the leaders of those nations.

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smoothgroover22 / CC BY-SA 2.0 The new cars will change urban planning as we know it; Democrats keep blaming Trump for their own shortcomings; meanwhile, Mexico’s war on drugs is one of the most lethal conflicts in the world, and its main victims are journalists. These discoveries and more below. Global Left vs. Global Right In the ongoing structural crisis of the modern world-system, which began in the 1970s and will probably last another 20-40 years, the issue is not the reform of capitalism, but its successor system. Читать дальше...

By John Pilger / JohnPilger.com The WikiLeaks founder has survived the efforts of Sweden, Britain, Australia, the U.S. and parts of the press to crush him—at least so far. Although the Swedish inquiry was dropped last week, no end is in sight for the long collusion against him.

By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt While American politicians debate how to finance needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have funded massive infrastructure projects across their country.

Claudia Ruedo protesting the detention of her mother in downtown Los Angeles on April 25. (Centro CSO / Twitter ) Claudia Rueda, a 22-year old student activist, was detained by Border Patrol agents in Los Angeles earlier this week, in an incident that her lawyer and supporters say is retaliation for earlier protests. Last month, Rueda protested the detention of her mother, Teresa Vidal-Jaime. Vidal-Jaime was picked up during a drug raid, but she has since been released and authorities say... Читать дальше...

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