-
Modern U.S. warmongering is scaring Henry Kissinger
In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, immortal Hague fugitive Henry Kissinger says the U.S. is acting in a crazy and irrational way that has brought it to the edge of war with Russia and China.
-
The invasion of capital
Last week, Ukraine’s foreign private creditors agreed to the country’s request for a two-year freeze on payments on about $20bn of foreign debt.
-
Lying whore, lying whore, lying whore, lying whores: Amber Heard and Women’s Right to bear witness
Why were people so ready to believe that Heard was lying–about everything?
-
Why the Great Migration did little to bridge the Great Racial Divide
Real and lasting economic opportunities for Black families will come only through a serious national reckoning on race.
-
There are ‘no real consequences’ for toxic emissions events
In some cases, these “chemical releases” aren’t illegal. In others, state regulators give polluters the benefit of the doubt.
-
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Harvard: Why the Crew, and not the Captain, Will Save America
“You fucked up; you trusted us.”
-
Inside Nicaragua’s free socialized health-care system
An inside look at the free universal health-care system created by Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, which has saved countless lives.
-
Four years later, parents of 40 school bus children killed in US-supplied bomb await accountability
Parents were angry at the Biden administration’s resumption of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia on August 2, one week ahead of the 4th anniversary of the Yemen school bus children attack on August 9.
-
LETTER FROM FAINA SAVENKOVA TO OLIVER STONE
My name is Faina Savenkova and I am 13 years old.
-
Patrick Lawrence: So far as I can make out
Patrick Lawrence explores how the truth about Ukraine has turned into a recipe for anger and contempt from the Western media.
-
Israel’s friends struggle to justify unprovoked attack that killed 17 children
Israel’s supporters are crowing that the Gaza attack was successful, but these advocates have blinded themselves to the moral dimension of such awful force.
-
The legacy of scientific racism
Scientific advances are not always linear; they zigzag in unexpected ways. This is particularly true of genetics, which has a dark history of being coopted into eugenics and race science.
-
New film documents life of anti-war writer
Vonnegut, like the novel’s Billy Pilgrim, witnessed the effects of the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II—a massacre and a war crime. In the novel, Pilgrim mentally flees the terrible memories by fantasising about extraterrestrial time travel, but can’t stop his mind from straying back to the trauma.
-
Climate crisis poses stark choice: Socialism or Extinction
In his latest book, Socialism or Extinction: The Meaning of Revolution in a Time of Ecological Disaster, Martin Empson neatly lays out his argument as to why the climate crisis cannot be solved under capitalism.
-
Roger Waters refutes U.S. war propaganda in CNN interview and World Beyond War webinar
On Saturday and Monday, English-born musician-composer and activist Roger Waters denounced the role of the US government in the war between Russia and Ukraine and discussed other contemporary political issues in two public appearances.
-
CBS wanted to do critical reporting on Ukraine’s government but Ukraine’s government said no
Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines.
-
Over 70 economists call for Biden Administration to return Afghanistan’s Central Bank reserves
“The people of Afghanistan have been made to suffer doubly for a government they did not choose.”
-
The Indian economy since Independence
The post-colonial state in India had two primary tasks before it: one was to overcome the hegemony of metropolitan capital, so that a development strategy in relative autonomy from imperialism could be pursued; the second was to attack landlordism both to free the agrarian population from its clutches, and to increase agricultural output for rapid industrialisation based on a growing home market.
-
The Nobodies take Office in Colombia: an in-depth analysis
People are crying, embracing, yelling, as the streets fill with joy. Horns honk and people dance in the middle of avenues. They can’t believe that the news traveling by word of mouth, tweet to tweet, news show to news show, is really true. As the minutes and hours pass, they confirm that it is true: This June 19th they—the Nobodies—have won.
-
Can we please have an adult conversation about China?
As the U.S. legislative leader Nancy Pelosi swept into Taipei, people around the world held their breath.