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Starmer branded an ‘absolute disgrace’ at Durham Miners’ Gala
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary Alan Mardghum said it was an absolute disgrace that the Labour leader had punished MPs for standing on picket lines in support of striking workers.
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Silence of the Lambs: How the Russian Communists have responded to the Wagner mutiny and Prigozhin’s Empire
The calls have begun in Mosco, for keeping intact Yevgeny Prigozhin’s conglomerate of military budget contractors. The reason argued is that they have established themselves so strategically in the logistics of the military services that they cannot be purged without doing greater damage than Prigozhin himself has caused. In short, a Russian oligarch who knows too much, with too many mouths to feed, too many pockets to fill, and so too big to fail.
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Cluster bomb opponents ‘appalled’ by Biden becision to send banned weapons to Ukraine
President Joe Biden has reportedly given final approval for the transfer of U.S. cluster munitions to Ukraine, ignoring warnings from human rights groups and progressive lawmakers who underscored the indiscriminate weapons’ devastating impacts on civilians immediately upon use and far into the future.
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The future is now: Rethinking public ownership
Ursula Huws reflects on the history of ‘prefigurative’ approaches and community ownership models in the UK – and how these can be used to rethink public ownership amid the current cost-of-living crisis.
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Failed ‘counteroffensive’ in Ukraine as NATO prepares for summit, pressures Global South to toe a pro-war line
Monthly military situation report for June 2023, by Dmitri Kovalevich, in Ukraine, June 29, 2023.
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No justice, no peace in France
“Tout le monde deteste la police!”—Everyone hates the police—was chanted at demonstrations and riots across France last week.
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Ukraine destroyed the Kakhovka dam: a forensic assessment
In multiple ways, the dam’s destruction echoes the 2022 destruction of the Russian-owned Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
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Ukraine timeline tells the story
Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the Establishment hits back at journalists, like at CN, who try to tell it now.
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European Council on Foreign Relation: Europe becoming vassal of U.S.
A report issued by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) has warned that the European Union is being vassalized by the United States.
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Corporate profits were biggest driver of inflation in Europe, IMF admits
Rising corporate profits have caused 45% of inflation in Europe, compared to 40% for rising import prices and just 15% for workers’ wages, according to research by IMF economists.
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The liberal-imperialist view of the conflict in Ukraine
Wiktionary: ‘Carrying water’ is to to do someone’s bidding; to serve someone’s interests.
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Who is National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the man running U.S. foreign policy?
From Hillary Clinton being his mentor, up to his planning for the Nord Stream sabotage operation, Jake Sullivan has risen through the ranks of the U.S. policy circles to become the man effectively running U.S. Foreign Policy today.
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Let’s get out from under the carbon military boot print
The USA and its allies pose themselves as “Global Leaders”. They could and should be, as they are the countries with the greatest concentrations of wealth, power and technical know how, communications and education, but they are falling horribly short; because they see leadership as the same thing as dominance–and subordinate everything else to that.
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OceanGate and how the wealthy kill
The saga of the OceanGate Titan submersible was the sort of story that rivets millions of people. Not only was it revealed that passengers paid $250,000 to see the wreck of the Titanic, but the vessel was poorly built, and its creator ignored warnings about its defects and continued to use it.
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New evidence from Nord Stream underwater expedition refutes official claims
Observers have drawn a number of conclusions based on a recent series of visits to the site of the Nord Stream pipeline rupture via drone.
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A deeply misleading narrative
A Deeply Misleading Narrative: Answering the Claims of Cedric Robinson’s ‘Black Marxism’.
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Chinese scholars discuss Engels in Eastbourne
Nearly a hundred professors, experts and scholars from more than 20 universities and research institutions in more than ten countries, including the United Kingdom, China, Germany, the United States, Ireland, Spain, Romania, Denmark, Turkey and India, hold in-depth discussions to commemorate the 175th anniversary of “The Communist Manifesto.”
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Climate collapse threatens slide to fascism and war
More and more, desperate people seeking refuge in Europe are not just fleeing from economic disaster and war. Many are also refugees from climate collapse.
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The real casualties of Russia’s ‘civil war’: the Beltway expert class
Numerous serious casualties were incurred during Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s supposed “coup.” The Grayzone offers an in-depth look at the massacre carried out by some of America’s top Russia experts against their own credibility.
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Prigozhin’s farce is over and it is clear who has won
The Prigozhin’s insurrection farce is over. I had predicted that it would not take long to end.