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Why does the United States continue to occupy a Haitian island?
The Americans mined a million tons of guano on the island without paying a cent to the Haitian authorities. Other countries have sold the product for hundreds of millions of dollars
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Zelensky and NATO plan to transform post-war Ukraine into ‘a big Israel’
The NATO-backed Atlantic Council has proposed apartheid Israel as a blueprint for a hyper-militarized Ukraine. The paper was authored by Obama’s former ambassador to Tel Aviv, now an Israeli spy-tech consultant.
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Uprising targets Canada’s man in Haiti
A popular uprising has paralyzed life in much of Haiti. While police are violently suppressing protesters, don’t expect Canadian officials to criticize security forces they fund.
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Inflation, the Fed and workers
The U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) is supposed to have a dual mandate of “maximum employment and price stability.” However, a close look at its policies since 1980 have shown it very willing to sacrifice the former for the latter.
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ACURA ViewPoint: How the Russians read the Karabakh Quandary
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, September 13, Azerbaijan launched an aggressive military assault along the borders of the Armenian Republic.
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Corporate media is trying to convince people student debt forgiveness is bad
By trying to convince voters that debt relief will cost them, and that a more egalitarian society is impossible, corporate media are defending America’s ruling class from an educated working class.
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Railroad CEOs were paid over $200 million as workers suffered
Rail execs defend themselves by claiming their skyrocketing profits do not reflect “any contributions by labor.”
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Biden keeps pledging direct U.S. war with China over Taiwan
The president of the United States has once again committed the US military to direct hot war with China in the event of an attack on Taiwan, a commitment that was once again walked back by his White House handlers.
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Inflation targeting farce: High costs, moot benefits
Sep 20, 2022 (IPS). Policymakers have become obsessed with achieving low inflation. Many central banks adopt inflation targeting (IT) monetary policy (MP) frameworks in various ways. Some have mandates to keep inflation at 2% over the medium term. Many believe this ensures sustained long-term prosperity.
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Far right makes gains in Swedish elections
In 1994, 15-year-old Jimmie Åkersson sought out a neo-Nazi party. Today, he’s brought that party into the mainstream.
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Zelensky quietly deletes photo of his bodyguard’s pro-Hitler patch
The Ukrainian President published a photograph on his social media channels showing one of his security escorts bearing a patch referencing the personal bodyguard unit of Adolf Hitler.
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Many reasons why price cap on Russian oil exports cannot work
The United States and its allies are trying to impose new restrictions on the Russian economy, but like attempts so far, this one too looks fated to fail.
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It’s time to call it what it is: A capitalism-induced ecological crisis
One-third of Pakistan is under water. Record heat waves blanket the globe driving up temperatures beyond what humans can survive. Polar glaciers are melting much faster than scientists predicted. Droughts, fires and floods are ravaging the planet, forcing the displacement of tens of millions of people. And this is just the beginning.
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Eyewitness: Human toll of eight-year Ukrainian army onslaught in Eastern Ukraine is shocking
The eastern Ukrainian countryside is being littered with Ukrainian Army mines while some towns have been abandoned as residents had to escape Ukrainian Army shelling. Residents consider Americans who send money to the Ukrainian government in the belief that they are protecting them from the Russians to be “idiotic” and “foolish.” The third part of […]
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The missing data behind Manchin’s dirty pipeline deal
Dems touting a bill to expand fossil fuel pipelines have not released any emissions projections showing what the bill would do to the climate.
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Trump’s vileness that Biden upholds
The fierce policy of economic aggression of Donald Trump’s administration against Cuba, maintained, by the way, almost intact by Joe Biden to date is the focus of this article. But before entering into that matter, I invite the reader to share some considerations on the history of the economic war of the United States (U.S.) against the island.
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International Atomic Energy agency takes Ukraine side in war in September 15 vote, making UN Secretary-General Guterres either a liar or a fool
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) decided this week to take the side of Ukraine in the current war; blame Russia for the shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP); and issue a demand for Russia to surrender the plant to the Kiev regime “to regain full control over all nuclear facilities within Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders, including the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.”
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UN officials denounce Israel’s “illegal and unacceptable” war on Palestinian civil society
UN official Mary Lawlor calls Israeli attacks on Palestinian human rights organizations an “atrocity.” “It’s as simple as that,” Lawlor tells Mondoweiss, “Israel does not want human rights defenders documenting and publicizing the attacks and injustice done to the Palestinians. So, this is their tactic.”
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Sahra Wagenknecht, Die Linke member of Bundestag: Russia sanctions causing ’social and economic catastrophe’ in Germany
Former Die Linke co-chair Sahra Wagenknecht, among the German Left Party’s most famous politicians, has accused the government of causing a “social and economic catastrophe” through its sanctions on Russia.