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- Written by Sam Mayfield
We are celebrating our 64th year at Toward Freedom, where we provide coverage that you won’t find in the corporate media. Please consider supporting our work today with a donation!
Vandana Shiva: Free People from ‘Dictatorship’ of the 0.01%
- Written by Vandana Shiva
Corporations are trying to replace our democracies with secret agreements and secret courts controlled by the 0.01 per cent super wealthy. The time is ripe for a planetary freedom movement that defends and protects the freedoms of all beings from this 0.01 per cent.
Peruvian Anti-Mining Activist Máxima Acuña to Newmont Mining Corporation: ‘I will never give up my land’
- Written by Roxana Olivera
In April 2016, Peruvian farmer Máxima Acuña was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her environmental advocacy and courageous stand against the Newmont Mining Corporation, the world’s second-largest goldmining company. This is her story.
Farewell to Yarmouk: A Palestinian Refugee’s Journey from Izmir to Greece
- Written by Ramzy Baroud
The refugee camp of Yarmouk was ever present in his being, pulling him in and out of an abyss of persistent fears that urged him to never return. But what was this refugee without Yarmouk, his first haven, his last earth?
The Rise and Fall of Turkey and Erdoğan?
- Written by Immanuel Wallerstein
To understand what has risen and fallen we need to look first at Turkey’s situation in 2001. Turkey had become a republic in 1923 with Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) as its first president. He was the leader of a military group that sought to replace the long-declining Ottoman Empire with a modern republic.
Brexit's Aftermath: Xenophobia and the Rising Right
- Written by Dan Read
Economists predicting renewed hardship. A resurgence in racist attacks. The resignation of a Prime Minister. The leader of the largest opposition party in the country attempting to fight off a coup attempt. This picture, more or less, sums up some of the more glaring repercussions of the British vote to leave the European Union.
