The final stage of a complex trial over the payment of treaty annuities in northern Ontario kicked off Monday with one group of plaintiffs pursuing negotiations and the other in court.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/robinson-treaties-third-stage-trial-1.6731274
Cuban President mourns the death of poet Teresa Melo

Granma reported the death of Cuban poet Teresa Melo Rodríguez, who passed away on Monday, January 30, 2023. The First Secretary of the Central …
Cuban President mourns the death of poet Teresa Melo
Family Demands Access to Investigation After Private Autopsy Reveals Police Shot Environmental Activist Over 13 Times – Southern Center for Human Rights
Family Demands Access to Investigation After Private Autopsy Reveals Police Shot Environmental Activist Over 13 Times – Southern Center for Human Rights
— Read on www.schr.org/family-demands-access-to-investigation-after-private-autopsy-reveals-police-shot-environmental-activist-shot-over-13-times/
Jamaica willing to take part in military intervention in Haiti, PM says | Reuters
Jamaica would be willing to take part in an international military deployment to Haiti, Prime Minister Andrew Holness told lawmakers on Tuesday, saying the Caribbean island country could also support its neighbor on electoral reforms.
— Read on www.reuters.com/world/africa/jamaica-willing-take-part-military-intervention-haiti-pm-says-2023-02-01/
Burkina Faso, Mali eye federation after expelling French soldiers | Africanews
The two Sahel neighbors are also battling international sanctions after military coups toppled civilian governments
— Read on www.africanews.com/2023/02/02/burkina-faso-mali-eye-federation-after-expelling-french-soldiers/
i told you so
it’s so tedious saying i told you so over and over and over and over again
so i’ll just say it once here u know
I TOLD YOU SO
Patti Smith Remembers Tom Verlaine | The New Yorker
Patti Smith remembers her friend, who possessed the child’s gift of transforming a drop of water into a poem that somehow begat music.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/he-was-tom-verlaine
[WE LUV U BIG MIKE] An extraordinary requiem for a rapper
An extraordinary requiem for a rapper
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Neoliberalism’s Colonial Origins (Essay) – Money on the Left
For those who have studied the history of colonial Africa through its fiscal and monetary dimensions, the similarities between colonial macroeconomics and neoliberal macroeconomics are striking. One might be tempted to see the neoliberal era as an avatar of colonialism. Actually, the main principles underlying the fiscal and monetary paradigm of…
— Read on moneyontheleft.org/2021/06/14/neoliberalisms-colonial-origins/
Chronology of Oppression at Pine Ridge (1977)

In the 1970s, violent state repression resulted in dozens of murders and assaults against Indigenous people (primarily but not exclusively Lakota …
Chronology of Oppression at Pine Ridge (1977)