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NED finances key Ukrainian propaganda organ, the Kyiv Independent
One NED-sponsored journalist even fights with the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and openly advocates for the commission of war crimes.
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They saw and heard the truth — then lied about it: media on Donbass delegation omitted mention of Ukraine’s 8 year war on the autonomous Republics
In the last week of March, I stood on a central Donetsk main street next to two of the impact points of a Ukrainian missile attack that had killed 21 civilians and injured nearly 40 more on March 14.
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The Ukrainian conflict is a U.S./NATO Proxy War, but one which Russia is poised to win decisively – Scott Ritter
The West has sown the wind in sanctioning Russia; Russia will not reap the whirlwind, says Scott Ritter in an interview with the Strategic Culture Foundation.
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The horrific scam that water billionaires are running on poor Countries
Mega corporations like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Danone are making around 494 times what they spend by bottling water in Mexico and selling it back to locals who have no choice but to buy it.
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Call it apartheid
Mondoweiss is a key movement and media resource helping the world understand what is happening in Palestine and calling it by it’s true name: apartheid. Donate today to make sure Mondoweiss can continue to publish the unvarnished truth.
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The Mecca of African Liberation: Walter Rodney in Tanzania
Karim Hirji, a Tanzanian student, was in a good mood when he went to bed on the 10 July 1969. That evening he had heard the most impressive lecture of his life at the University of Dar es Salaam. The lecture was on the Cuban Revolution and its relevance to Africa. Back in his dorm, he praised the speaker in his diary: “one could almost feel the strong conviction and deep emotions from which he spoke”. The man he admired and later befriended was Dr Walter Rodney.
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‘After all, my name is Stalin’: in a Speech at CPI(M) Congress, a roadmap to counter BJP
The DMK’s chief’s speech at the CPI(M)’s congress has reflected the assonance between communist and Dravidian politics.
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“Culture Shock”: Harlem’s Socialist City Council member Kristin Richardson Jordan reflects on her first three months in office
Outsider-turned-insider looks for more allies as she fights budget cuts and a turn toward more intense policing.
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Long marches, long revolutions
As Red Pepper launches its new ‘Keywords’ series inspired by the work of Raymond Williams, Daniel Frost explores the associations of Williams’ own keyword, the ‘long revolution’
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The Russian Revolution of 2022 – ‘Capitalism in One Country’
Now that the U.S. and the NATO allies have taken from the Russian oligarchs their cash in foreign banks, their mansions, their boats and planes, and blocked the export of all private and corporate Russian capital abroad, Russia is freer to decide how to organize the capital investment of the economy.
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Dutch Journalist: ‘We are here, in Donbass, to awaken Westerners deluded by propaganda’
There are only a handful of Western journalists on the ground in Donbass, while the Western mainstream press is rubber-stamping fake news about the Ukrainian crisis using the same templates it previously exploited in Iraq, Libya and Syria, says Dutch independent journalist Sonja van den Ende.
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A statement on Ukraine from the Black Liberation Movement
The ongoing crisis and war in Ukraine threatens to pull the world into a disastrous nuclear confrontation.
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Amazon win shows power of rank-and-file organising
The newly formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU) won by more than 500 votes, with 2654 workers voting in favour of a union and 2131 voting against, according to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) count. About 7000 people are employed at the site, known as the JFK8 Fulfillment Center.
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U.S. prepares new sanctions targeting Ethiopia, Eritrea in latest destabilization push
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has overwhelmingly approved a new measure designed to impose sanctions on Ethiopia. Known as the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act of 2022, the bill authorizes the U.S. government to suspend financial and security assistance to Ethiopia and to sanction individuals the United States decrees to be responsible for the ongoing conflict in the country.
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New Book: ‘Nicaragua, A History of U.S. Intervention & Resistance’
Ocotal is a historic Nicaraguan city located in the Department of Nueva Segovia. It is famous for being the site of battles between the U.S. Marines and the peasant guerilla forces of Augusto Cesar Sandino in the mid-1920s.
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Fabricating Putin quotes and banning paraplegic athletes to undermine Russia: how low can the West go?
Mobilizing a population to vilify and hate a targeted enemy is a tactic that leaders have used since before the dawn of human history, and it is being used to demonize Russia and Vladimir Putin in the current conflict.
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National responsibility for ecological breakdown: a fair-shares assessment of resource use, 1970–2017
We propose a novel method for quantifying national responsibility for ecological breakdown by assessing nations’ cumulative material use in excess of equitable and sustainable boundaries.
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The billion dollar deal that made Google and Amazon partners in the Israeli occupation of Palestine
“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This text was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military.
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Biden’s budget cements turn towards war, police
On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his 2023 budget, calling for dramatically increased funding for war and the police while allocating all-too-little funding for social services. Out of the total $1.58 trillion of spending outlined in the budget, $813 billion is allocated to the military while $769 billion is allocated for non-military spending. This is a $31 billion increase in funding for the war machine.
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Harvard Law School ‘apartheid’ report leaves Israel’s defenders speechless
Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic’s recent report declaring that Israel is practicing apartheid is a victory for Palestinian human rights.