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• Iran
  

  Resumption of Bombing and Internal Crisis in Iran

  17 August, by Babak Kia

  The ceasefire between the US and Iran was shattered around the question of control of the Strait of Hormuz. As the US bombing resumes, divisions are deepening at the top of the Islamic Republic, with no way out for the people of Iran.

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• USA
  

  Revoking TPS: Trump Escalates Racist Assault

  16 August, by Malik Miah

  TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States was overturned by the government, following a June 25 ruling by the Supreme Court to allow the termination.

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• Latin America
  

  The spectre of the far right is haunting Latin America

  15 August, by Eduardo Lucita

  Far-right movements have come to power in numerous countries across the region. They are linked to Trumpism; resisting them requires the broadest possible coordination of these resistance movements at both local and regional levels.

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• Spanish State
  

  Ceuta: the boundary of the right to have rights

  14 August, by Miguel Urbán Crespo

  Last Friday [31 July], thousands of people swam across the border to reach the autonomous city of Ceuta. This enclave of some 83,000 people received, in a matter of 24 hours, just over 50,000 more people, exhausted from a migratory journey that has caused the deaths of at least 100 in the last two days. In summer, arrivals in Ceuta and Melilla by sea increase significantly, as sea fog hinders early detection on the coast by the Civil Guard. But no one in the government seemed to foresee a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude, with significant political repercussions that extend far beyond the usual media headlines.

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• Ukraine
  

  The Wrong Lever: Europe, Ukraine, and the Refugee Question

  13 August, by Adam Novak

  EU leaders are moving towards removal of asylum rights for Ukrainian men aged 23-60, to improve conscription and functioning of essential services in the fifth year of Ukraine’s fight against Russian imperialist aggression. The Zelenskiy government asked for this change. But that does not make the policy right.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ukraine

  In Kyiv, the street makes its voice heard

• Italy

  The battle for the beaches in Italy

• Morocco:

  New escalation of repression in the face of rising resistance

• Tunisia

  Mobilizations amid water and electricity crisis in Tunisia

• Balkans

  The Same Enemy Is Driving Protests Across the Balkans

Recently posted Features

• Series: Governments submit to “Too Big to Fail” banks (Part 1)

  Central Banks lend massively to the banking sector

  8 September 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  Since the banking bubble burst in 2007, the major Central Banks of the most industrialised countries lend massively to private banks at very low interest rates in order to avoid their failure, thus permitting the big banks that take the most advantage to save considerable amounts in interest payments.

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• Last part of the series: The Banks and the “Too Big to Jail” Doctrine (Part 9)

  The Impunity Enjoyed by the Banks must Stop

  1 September 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  We all know the saying “Too big to fail.” In managing the crisis the banks have caused, the governments of the industrialised countries have adopted a new doctrine that might be summed up as “Too big to jail.”

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• Series: Banks and the “Too big to jail” doctrine (Part 8)

  Complicity of Dexia in very serious Human Rights violations in the Israeli occupied territories

  1 September 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  In 2001, the Dexia Group (Dexia SA) took over the Israeli bank Otzar Hashilton Hamekomi. It has been disclosed that this subsidiary – now called Dexia Israel – finances Israeli colonies in the Palestinian territories [1]which means Dexia is involved in the occupation of Palestine. As the platform “Palestine occupée – Dexia impliquée( Occupied Palestine - Dexia Involved)” says, “financing these colonies contravenes international law, in particular article 49 of the fourth Geneva Convention, which states, ’The occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own population into the territory it occupies.’” [2]

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• Series: The banks and the “Too Big to Jail” doctrine (Part 7)

  The Big Banks Organise Massive Tax Evasion on an International Scale

  31 August 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  Another example of the “Too Big to Jail” doctrine: International tax evasion and fraud organised by UBS, Switzerland’s biggest bank.
  UBS, which had to be saved from failure in October 2008 by massive injections of Swiss public money, was involved in the LIBOR manipulation scandal, the currency markets manipulation scandal (UBS is the subject of several inquiries by controlling authorities in Hong Kong, US, the UK, and in Switzerland) and the abusive sale of structured Mortgage-Backed (…)

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