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There is a war coming shrouded in propaganda. It will involve us. Speak up
In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war.
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The mess they made of 2023
Abroad and at home, ideology ruled the U.S.
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Lee Sun-kyun’s death is a reminder of the lie of South Korean liberalism
The actor’s suicide highlights the truth about the overlooked despotism of a vital U.S. ally.
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The (Television) Season of Our Discontent: Streaming and Striking in 2023
In 2023, TV studios cut back on both product and labor—and labor struck back. Writers and actors, having had enough of belt tightening and penny pinching, joined many other unions in either threatening to strike or striking. Workers changed how the story was told, showing that studios, their bloated salaries, and their failure to compensate those actually creating the profit, were to blame for the current conjuncture.
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Review: ‘The Case for a Job Guarantee’ by Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Pavlina Tcherneva, a Professor of Economics at Bard College and a Research Scholar at the Levy Institute, has written a concisely, argued case for a federal job guarantee within the context of a Green New Deal.
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‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.
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How the campaign to free Venezuelan political prisoner Alex Saab succeeded
Alex Saab was freed from U.S. captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.”
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Why is Biden endorsing corporate colonialism in Honduras?
If Donald Trump “crippled” the World Trade Organization, the Biden administration has recast this crisis as an opportunity to ditch the old orthodoxy and welcome new trade rules that “equip it to better tackle modern-day imperatives,” as Biden has defined them.
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Russia and China no longer using dollar in trade, claims Russian PM Mishustin
Western currencies have almost been completely phased out in Russia-China trade, as nearly all payments between the countries are now carried out in rubles and yuan, according to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
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The vacuity of the free trade argument
The fact that unrestricted trade creates domestic unemployment is quite obvious, and should be especially obvious to third world people who have had the historical experience of deindustrialisation during colonial rule.
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“Feed the people, eat the rich!”: Group wearing Jeff Bezos masks ransacks Whole Foods
On Friday, December 15th, “a “merry band of miscreants” entered a Whole Foods in NYC, lifted a bunch of groceries, and walked out in Jeff Bezos masks,” reported independent journalist Talia Jane on Twitter/X.
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The Red Sea is now the second front in the Gaza war
John Rees asks whether the Gaza war will engulf the entire Middle East.
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Blood money: The top ten politicians taking the most Israel lobby cash
As the Israeli attack on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria intensifies, the U.S. public watch on aghast. A new poll finds that Americans support a permanent ceasefire by a more than 2:1 ratio (including the vast majority of Democrats and a plurality of Republicans).
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Moves of UK and U.S. over Chagos expose true nature of ‘values-based alliance’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Thursday local time in a joint press conference that they had discussed the “vital” U.S.-UK Indian Ocean air base at Diego Garcia.
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‘A crazy system’: How arbitration returns abusive guards to New York prisons
Over a 12-year span, three out of every four state correctional officers fired for abuse or covering it up got their jobs back.
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Why Latin America and the Caribbean stand with Palestine: Israel viewed as U.S. proxy
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than any other region, they have expressed their solidarity with Palestine. Most recognize that the partnership between U.S. imperialism and Israeli Zionism applies not only to Palestine, but also […]
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U.S. troops are occupying Syria’s oil fields. Congress refuses to withdraw them
The U.S. military has illegally occupied Syrian sovereign territory since 2014, preventing Damascus from accessing its own oil and wheat fields. The Senate voted 13-84, rejecting a resolution to withdraw U.S. troops.
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CAIR seeks investigation over teen’s expulsion from Florida school
This comes after the school fired his mother Dr. Maha Almasri, a Palestinian-American, for her posts in support of Palestine.
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Texas is challenging 150 years of immigration law
Senate Bill 4 could be the vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to finally unleash Lone Star Republicans on the world’s huddled masses.
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I used to think the term ’Judeo-Nazis’ was excessive. I don’t any longer.
I used to think that Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s term “Judeo-Nazis” was too strong to describe Israel. But today, I feel differently.