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Nineteen years ago today the Bush administration invaded Iraq in one of the worst crimes of the modern era
Numerologists tell you that 19 is 1 + 9 which equals the powerful # 1, or new beginnings. Well, 19 years ago on March 19, coincidentally, my nation orchestrated the most horrific deed since God knows when.
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Obama defense secretary Leon Panetta says NATO is in a “proxy war” with Russia
Leon Panetta, the former US secretary of defense and CIA director under Barack Obama and White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton, said Thursday that the United States is involved in a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
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Civilians evacuate Mariupol and reveal the fighting methods of the Azov regime’s Neo-Nazis
On March 18, 2022, we went to the western part of Marioupol where the fighting between the Russian army, the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) people’s militia and the neo-Nazi Azov regiment is still raging.
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Globalisation and the relocation of capital and labour
The twin phenomena associated with contemporary globalisation, of migration of capital from the metropolis to parts of the third world, and of migration of labour from the erstwhile second world to the metropolis, have the effect of weakening the working class movement everywhere.
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Toward a third Reconstruction: Lessons from the past for a socialist future
Karl Marx wrote to Lincoln in 1864 that he was sure that the “American anti-slavery war” would initiate a “new era of ascendancy” for the working classes for the “rescue…and reconstruction of a social world.”
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Dangers of teaching the Bhagavad Gita in educational curriculums
The Hindu right wing forces are planning for a while to make the Bhagavad Gita as a national scripture and access to absolute state power is allowing them to fulfil their long-time dream.
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Contexto Chino: What do Chinese citizens say about Ukraine?
Chinese people and the Chinese government are two different things on this issue. Among Chinese people there’s been huge energetic support for Russia, there was even a movement among people to buy all the Russian products from online shops in China and everything sold out very quickly.
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The NYT now admits the Biden laptop – falsely called “Russian Disinformation” – is authentic
The media outlets which spread this lie from ex-CIA officials never retracted their pre-election falsehoods, ones used by Big Tech to censor reporting on the front-runner.
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For Washington, war never ends
The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rearmament of Germany confirmed that for the United States, the war in Europe was not entirely over. It still isn’t.
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Sanctions anyone? Imperialist contradiction or the unintended consequence of involuntary decolonization
In support of the white supremacist Ukrainian puppet government, many U.S. and European companies have been withdrawing from doing business in Russia.
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Homicidal drives: U.S. dreams of killing Putin
Wars disturb and delude. The Ukraine conflict is no exception. Misinformation is cantering through press accounts and media dispatches with feverish spread.
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Climate research strike? Linking up environmental science with the ‘science of society’
Hundreds of IPCC scientists provide the United Nations periodically with reports on adverse impacts of climate change. The most recent report, issued in February, details rising seas, terrible droughts, atypical weather events, thawing permafrost, dying forests, and massive displacement of populations.
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War in Ukraine: Dispatch of weapons and propaganda
Italian Lieutenant General Fabio Mini: “Negotiate, stop being only focused only on one thought and on propaganda, help Ukraine to coming to her senses and provide Russia a chance to get out of the tunnel of the encirclement syndrome–not with plain talks but with concrete acts”.
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The erasure of Palestine and the JNF
The JNF is a case study of misrepresentations and fabrications to rationalize and justify profound immorality. There is a great deal of critical history documenting that antisemitism is not inevitable, intrinsic, or constant in history.
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The People of the Book
By “People of the Book” it meant principally Jews and Christians. These book-based religions were an intellectual innovation. The book-basis gave Christianity and Islam an expansive power and a cultural breadth that earlier religions had not had.
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Max Ajl in conversation with Habib Ayeb on food sovereignty and the environment
Max Ajl interviews radical geographer and activist Habib Ayeb. Habib Ayeb is a founder member of the NGO Observatory of Food Sovereignty and Environment (OSAE) and Max Ajl is a Postdoc at Wageningen University’s Rural Sociology Group, associate editor at Agrarian South and the author of A People’s Green New Deal.
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Victoria Nuland: Ukraine has “biological research facilities,” worried Russia may seize them
The neocon’s confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.
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The huge gap between how serious nuclear war is and how seriously it’s being taken
Sometimes I’m not sure what presents a greater threat to humanity, nuclear war or the colossal stupidity that has made it possible.
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Destruction of the Amazon Package approved with urgency
The Brazilian government remains firm in its objective of handing over indigenous lands, which make up 12% of Brazilian territory, to private hands, preferably agribusiness and mining.
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Venezuela defines conditions for sale of oil to U.S.
The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela maintained its willingness to resume its oil trade with countries such as the United States, and even those that belong to the European Union, but it has clearly outlined the diplomatic and political conditions necessary for any exchange to take place.