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Private companies helped ruin Jackson’s water
As Mississippi considers privatizing Jackson’s water, parts of the city system already run by private companies have been left in ruins.
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The American Empire runs through the compact States
U.S. officials envision imperial roles for Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
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Dirty bomb, destruction of Kakhovka Dam-Ukraine’s dangerous games
For several days now, the threat of Ukraine using a dirty bomb or destroying the Kakhovka dam has been causing an extremely dangerous rise in tension. By allowing Kiev to do whatever it wants, even the worst war crimes and terrorist acts, the West is encouraging Ukraine to continue playing with fire, at the risk of provoking a disaster that would go beyond the country’s borders.
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BC NDP shreds its credibility again with Appadurai disqualification
Appadurai’s leadership run crystallized into a grassroots challenge to the party establishment. The party struck back.
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Dossier No. 57: The geopolitics of inequality: Discussing pathways towards a more just world
This dossier is about inequality, or inequalities, between the North and South, between the rich and poor, and between the classes that labour and those that profit.
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The U.S. signals readiness to launch nuclear strike against Russia
U.S. Navy announced that “General Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla, commander of CENTCOM, conducted a visit aboard the USS West Virginia, a U.S. Navy Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at an undisclosed location at sea in international waters in the Arabian Sea. Kurilla was joined on the USS West Virginia by Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet and NAVCENT.”
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Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution
The United Nations international panel on climate change, the IPPC, predicts that as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases by the year 2050 there will be 1 billion climate refugees. Temperatures must be held within a 1.5 Celsius increase. If it goes up, as predicted, an increase of 4 degrees would end civilization.
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Prof. Richard Wolff: inflation, imperialism & worker resistance
Inflation, Imperialism & Worker Resistance
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55% of humanity does not reject the accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
On October 12, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution rejecting the accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine.
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Cuba’s new Family Code: made possible by socialism
Rather than simply ‘legalising gay marriage’ the new laws in Cuba addressed everything from domestic work to children’s rights, engaging half of the entire population in a uniquely socialist process, explain MARY DAVIS and ANGUS REID.
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Irish MEP Clare Daly names & shames EU & America over State-sponsored terrorism in viral speech
Ireland News Today: An Irish Member of the European Parliament who previously condemned Israel as “genocidal” has said it is “laughable” that those calling for arms to Ukraine do not support arms being supplied to Palestine.
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Disruptive action on the climate deserves our support
We can learn from past movements and we can and should study the results of the many tactics activists are employing.
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75th Anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist takes on added significance with escalation of New Cold War
Let’s Hope History Does Not Repeat
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Media narratives shield landlords from a crisis of their own making
As landlords continue their relentless pursuit of profits, and politicians allow pandemic-era eviction moratoriums to expire, the human toll of a fundamentally brutal housing system is arguably more visible than ever—particularly in America’s largest cities.
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Europe’s self destruction
Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.
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Ambedkar, Buddhism and Dalit liberation
Events of the last few days indicate AAP and BJP worship Ambedkar purely for electoral gains and not from commitment to his ideas.
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U.S. Chip War version 2: Decoupling from China or declaring war?
The U.S. has gambled big in its latest, across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap China and retain its global dominance.
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U.S. police kill twice as many people every year as we’ve been told
Most countries are far different from the U.S. when it comes to murderous police..
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The Black Alliance for Peace welcomes delayed Security Council vote on Western invasion of Haiti
October 18, 2022–One day after the Black Alliance for Peace—and other individuals and groups from Haiti and the Haitian diaspora—requested that Russia and China oppose the Biden Administration’s UN Security Council resolution providing cover for another Western invasion of Haiti, the Security Council delayed consideration of the vote.
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EU confesses ‘our prosperity was based on China & Russia’: Cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell confessed the West’s neoliberal economic model was “based on cheap energy coming from Russia,” “access to the big China market,” and low-paid Chinese workers. Europe has now lost that, and is thus in crisis.