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The CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran
“Earth or Death!” — Hugo Blanco (1934-2023)
Major strikes in Iran and the UK, repression in Germany and Swaziland, and more
Spotlight on Cuba, Brazil under Lula, women in struggle
Iranian American screen polymath Payman Maadi (who made such an impact in films such as Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation) is Samad, a cop waging an apparently unwinnable war on drugs in the Iranian capital. Having rounded up a vast community of addicts living and dying within a hellscape of giant concrete pipes, Samad and his deputy, Hamid (Houman Kiai), treat their captives like cattle, stripping and humiliating them, herding them from one overcrowded prison space to the next.
While US media fixated on Russian interference in the 2016 election, an Israeli secret agent’s campaign to influence the outcome went unreported.
A planet haunted by democratic upheavals
A long-time Republican operative has come forward to spill the beans about the extensive plotting by Reagan allies to force the hostages to endure captivity for months so that voters would deny Carter a second term.
An in-depth analysis of the Peru uprising, and updates from Europe, Myanmar and more
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