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The war in Ukraine: A no-win situation for the left

The political left is floundering over what to say about the war in Ukraine. Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro supports Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who has been his ally since 2018. Some radicals have denounced high-profile American socialists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders for backing the United States. Fightback, the Canadian section of …

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Ukraine war: Russia’s G20 walkout heightens tensions at fractious summit as China’s rise continues

While G20 foreign ministers were meeting in Bali, Indonesia, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, threatened further escalation in his war against Ukraine, announcing to the world that “by and large, we have not started anything in earnest yet”. What he meant became quickly clear when a missile attack hit an …

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The Uber files: leaked documents reveal a strategy of chaos – has anything changed?

Uber has had a controversial history since its founding in 2009, from violent conflicts among drivers to a secret software allegedly used to evade law enforcement. Now, a leak of over 124,000 documents dubbed the Uber files shows the extent to which the firm under co-founder and former CEO Travis …

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