Archive | December, 2024

Prerna Gupta talks to Dilnaz Boga about those affected by Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS) in India’s thirst for electricity

The Morning Star sends its solidarity and support to those demonstrating tomorrow at Lakenheath, Suffolk, against the return of U.S. nuclear weapons to British soil.

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell has described the killing of children as another “dark chapter” in the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza.

The British Government was exposed in the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry this week as keeping Sergei and Yulia Skripal unconscious to silence them.

The world yearns for ‘active’ peace, tired of the attitude of superiority that defines the North’s relations with the South. This means that wealth, which is produced by society, must not deepen the pockets of the rich and fuel the engines of war, but fill the bellies of the many.

On Friday, April 29, 2022, USLBA hosted a meeting with U.S. officials and U.S. corporate executives to discuss the implementation of the Global Fragility Act in Libya to “prevent conflict and promote stability”. Photo: The U.S.-Libya Business Association

With a constant stream of media exposing genocidal war in Palestine, child labor in the Congo, and Indigenous struggles in South America, neoliberalism’s colonial nature is clearer than ever. Now is the time to return to the works of Fanon and explore a radically different future liberated from coloniality, Ken Olende explores.

Once again, the United States and Israel voted against the lifting of arbitrary sanctions against the Cuban people.

Israel has launched a round of airstrikes on Iran which the western news media are falling all over themselves to falsely frame as “retaliatory” strikes against an unprovoked missile attack by Iran. 

Just 15 years ago, Chinese consumers were flocking to Western brands. Now they prefer Chinese ones.

BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting.

A Lebanese security source has revealed the U.S. ambassador is calling on her allies to ‘do their part’ to destroy Hezbollah.

In a malicious ploy, a hospital in Honolulu locked out its nurses after a one-day strike—and not just for a couple days, as hospitals often do, but indefinitely. The message was, you can come back only when you accept our demands.

Every week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than the poorest people produce in a lifetime.

The media hawks are flying high, pushing out bellicose rhetoric on the op-ed pages that seems calculated to whip the public into a war-ready frenzy.

A tireless fighter for justice, Lowkey’s tracks have become anthems in the anti-war movement, particularly in the struggle for Palestine liberation. “Soundtrack to the Struggle 3” is no different and provides a political snapshot in time, taking on issues such as the genocide in Gaza, the persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, and the pervasive surveillance power of our smartphones.

For 24 days, the Israeli military siege has combined an intense bombing campaign with a ground incursion.

A Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ community in the Venezuelan Amazon discusses their culture and organization as well as the Indigenous peoples’ rights established in the 1999 constitution.

While so many in the world hold their breath for Harris or Trump it would also be wise to keep an eye on Germany. A sharp eye!

On 22 October, at the age of 96, one of the key figures of liberation theology passed away.