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"Bolivia’s left lost big in last Sunday’s election, and a lot of the analysis in progressive circles has focused solely on the feud between former president Evo Morales and sitting president, Luis Arce. Morales was barred from running in the elections by Arce’s government and subsequently called for a null or blank vote in the contest. On Sunday 17 August, two right-wing candidates, Rodrigo Paz and Jorge Quiroga, emerged victorious, and they will proceed to the second round in October."

Beyond Defeat in Bolivia

The Limits of Left Electoral Strategy in Latin America

"August 1st marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords’ inking. The event’s golden jubilee passed without much in the way of mainstream comment, or recognition. Yet, the date was absolutely seismic, its destructive consequences reverberating today throughout Europe and beyond. The Accords not only signed the death warrants of the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact, and Yugoslavia years later, but created a new global dynamic, in which “human rights” - specifically, a Western-centric and -enforced conception thereof - became a redoubtable weapon in the Empire’s arsenal."

How 'Human Rights' Became Western Weapon

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Here the satirical version of the events... "Israel accidentally bombed journalists in hospital and then accidentally bombed the rescuers Let's be honest: who hasn't accidentally launched a suicide drone at a hospital, taking out a bunch of journalists who were live on air, and then accidentally launched a follow-up strike that took out the rescuers? This very easy mistake was made by Israel today, and predictably, all of the worst people are giving the IDF a hard time."

Israel accidentally bombed journalists in hospital and then accidentally bombed the rescuers

Let's be honest: who hasn't accidentally launched a suicide drone at a hospital, taking out a bunch of journalists who were live on air, and then a...

Israel has bombed the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, killing Reuters photojournalist Hussam Al-Masri, Al Jazeera cameraman Mohammad Salama, Independent Arabia and Associated Press journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa, and NBC journalist Moaz Abu Taha. https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-just-bombed-another-hospital

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Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) have no basis in international law. America's favorite excuse for sailing warships into other nations' backyards, like they own the ocean, is pure fiction. " The Chinese government has hit out at US freedom of navigation operations in the first report of its kind. The report – “Legal Assessment of the United States’ ‘Freedom of Navigation’” – is the first official study of its kind published by Beijing and marks its growing desire to challenge what it characterised as “gunboat diplomacy”. “US ‘freedom of navigation’ lacks a basis in international law and seriously distorts the interpretation and development of international law,” the report said. It challenged Washington’s position on a number of grounds, saying: “The United States created several ‘legal concepts’. One is ‘international waters’. It does not exist in the contemporary law of the sea.” "

South China Morning Post

China challenges US freedom of navigation operations as having ‘no legal basis’

Beijing accuses Washington of ‘double standards’ in first report of its kind criticising its activities in South China Sea and Taiwan Strait.

Antiwar News for 8/26/25: IDF Double-Tap Strike on Gaza Hospital Kills 5 Journalists, US Launches Strikes in Somalia, and More

"The fact is, the elusiveness of peace is fundamentally a political problem reflective of the fact that the war is the result of a coalition mobilised by the U.S. over many years, since Bush Junior opened the door to Ukrainian membership of NATO in 2008. Having mobilised a coalition, involving European countries backing the training and arming of Ukraine as operational proxy, we now confront a situation in which the coalition displays fragmented purpose and interests. The coalition cannot be readily controlled from one single point, and in fact, exhibits fragmented interests and drivers."

China-US Focus

An Elusive Peace in Ukraine

The war in Ukraine grinds on into its fourth year, and yet peace seems elusive. American President Donald Trump recently met Russian President Vlad...

Smotrich: Palestinians Who Stay in Gaza City Can 'Die of Hunger,' Israel Bombs Yemen, and More Antiwar.com

It must be that why Israel just bulldozed 8000 Palestinian olive trees 🤔. Or there was an entry to the Hamas tunnels under every tree. Might be that. #asknostr

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Annie Lennox on Israel's genocide in Gaza

"As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels. Israeli tanks and fighter jets pummel neighborhoods to drive Palestinians who remain in the ruins of the city to the south."

Israel’s Assassination of Memory

Israel’s razing of Gaza is not only about ethnic cleansing. It is about the erasure of a people, a culture and a history that expose the lies use...

Lex Fridman Podcast with Scott Horton. Duration 10 hours 26 minutes 31 seconds 🤯. No, I didn’t listen to it yet...

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How does China's system really work? This famous Chinese professor explains...