Global Left Midweek — Focus on Asia
Portside
Special: A primer on Lebanon
Special: A primer on Lebanon
Special: A primer on Lebanon
The Bitter Fight Over the Meaning of ‘Genocide’
New York Times
Debates over how to describe conflicts in Gaza, Myanmar and elsewhere are channeling a controversy as old as the word itself. The Genocide Convention emerged as an immediate response to World War II-today its being renegotiated to bring it up to date
Global Left Midweek – July 17, 2024
Portside
Climate action is breaking out all over
Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary – The Primary Sources on Kissinger’s Controversial Legacy
National Security Archive
The historical record documents the darker side of Kissinger’s controversial tenure in power: his role in the overthrow of democracy and the rise of dictatorship in Chile; disdain for human rights; support for dirty, and even genocidal, wars abroad..
poetry
What Is Left
Copper Nickel
A survivor of the American war in Cambodia, the poet Bunkong Tuon lives with ancestral ghosts and gratitude for what is left.
I Crashed Henry Kissinger’s 100th-Birthday Party: The Elite Love Him But for Some Reason Won’t Say Why.
New York Magazine
Kissinger is having an extended birthday month. It has also been a month of outstanding watchdog reporting — including new revelations about previously untold mass killings Kissinger was responsible for in Cambodia.
Global Left Midweek – Focus on Latin America
Portside
A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup
Globa Left Midweek - Focus on Asia
Portside
India, Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam — Reports on the left and working people across Asia
Garment Workers Win $22 Billion in Historic Victory Against Wage Theft
Waging Nonviolence
The PayUp campaign has clawed back $22 billion from apparel companies owed to factories and workers, and they’re just getting started.
labor
Migrant Workers in Thailand are Organizing to Combat Exploitation by the Country's Fishing Industry
GlobalVoices
In a country where migrant workers fear deportation, and in an industry where employers often physically abuse workers, the process of union-building is a slow task that requires building relationships of trust amongst fishers.
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