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Global Left Midweek - February 27, 2019

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Uruguayan Unions Against Venezuela Invasion, Russian Left, Indigenous in French Guiana, Tribute to a Comrade, Kurds in Turkey, Greece Today, More on Haiti, Farmers Face Down India's Rulers

The New York Times Won't Stop Pushing Crank Economics

Robert Reich Truthdig
Major news outlets, like the New York Times, seem to go out of their way to deny the incredible harm done to euro zone economies, and to the lives of tens of millions of people in these countries, as a result of needless austerity.

Death and Disappearance: Inside the World of Privatised War

Abigail Fielding-Smith , Crofton Black The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
The world has since got so used to companies taking over what were long functions of the state that the Trump administration is now considering handing over the Afghan war to them.