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Co-opting the revolutionary history of MLK
I often think about how one of the most revolutionary black men in history can be completely altered; completely reconstructed; undergoing a kind of magical jolly negro transmorgification?
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The “Powell Memo” and the Supreme Court: A counteroffensive against the many
By the early 1970s, the global revolutionary tide of socialist and national liberation struggles was at its apex, and the tide was washing over the U.S., with expanding and increasingly militant social movements and political organizations.
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Trump’s idling plane got more TV coverage than Biden cutting healthcare for 15 million
Last spring, the Biden administration and a Democratic House approved a policy that would kick 15 million people off of Medicaid.
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Clare Daly: Europe has become the tail of the U.S. dog, shot itself in its feet
In this episode, member of the European Parliament, Clare Daly, shares the struggles that Europe is facing, and her thoughts on how Europe has been under increasing U.S. pressure to worsen relations with China, against the interests of people in Europe.
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Fascists threaten, Biden concedes: organize and fight for trans rights!
The Trans Day of Vengeance was a long-planned protest in Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 1. People were coming to D.C. from across the country to participate. It was called in response to the growing legal and extralegal violence against the transgender community, egged on by far-right politicians and corporate media.
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Washington says “journalism is not a crime” while working to criminalize journalism
After a certain point criticizing the hypocrisy and contradictions of the U.S.-centralized empire starts to feel too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. But hell let’s do it anyway; the barrel’s right here, and I really hate these particular fish.
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U.S. push to strip China’s ‘Developing Country’ status an attack on development itself
The U.S. attempt to diminish China’s economic success is a bipartisan project, and a unanimous congressional vote to strip China of developing nation status is just the latest act in the aggressive but futile effort.
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87% of service workers in the U.S. South were injured on the job last year
Southern service workers allege that South Carolina’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration discriminates against Black workers.
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Biden administration refuses to condemn Israel storming Al-Aqsa mosque, blocks Security Council statement
The Biden State Department refused to condemn Israel’s storming of Al-Aqsa mosque, and blocked a U.N. Security Council statement criticizing the raids.
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Israeli spyware NSO still hides among the walls of the White House
The Biden administration’s efforts to completely eliminate the NSO Israeli spyware are faced with what remains behind closed doors.
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Trump derangement syndrome returns
If democrats were smart, Donald Trump would be a disgraced former president, forgotten by all but his most ardent admirers. But they aren’t smart and they may have given him a political resurrection.
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A Singular Reality, or Not
John Bellamy Foster, John Ross, Deborah Veneziale, and Vijay Prashad, Washington’s New Cold War: A Socialist Perspective (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023), 108 pages, $15. The “singular reality” (my phrase) on display here is the imagined reality in the mind’s eye of Beltline/Pentagon global strategists. Few readers will be surprised at the cravings of […]
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Hochul is helping her fossil fuel donors gut key climate law
After scoring half a million from oil and gas interests, New York’s Democratic governor wants to allow utilities to burn fossil fuels for decades longer than currently permitted.
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Why Zelensky will NOT take back Crimea
Any attempt by a Ukrainian government to “take back” Crimea would be met with firm opposition and resistance from the people who live there.
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TikTok on trial: The latest front in the U.S. tech war on China
On March 23, CEO of TikTok Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee addressing concerns over the popular social media app’s data collection practices and parent company ByteDance’s alleged links to the Chinese government.
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The United Nations is being used by the U.S. in its Propaganda War against Nicaragua
While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies.
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The U.S. is trying to persuade China to commit suicide
The U.S. knows from its experience in defeating Germany, Japan, and the “Asian Tigers,” that a decisive way to slow a competitor’s growth rate is to get it to reduce its level of investment, which is what it is now trying to do to China.
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Ukraine 2014: The Tipping Point of Terror
Part I of a CAM investigation into the origins of the Ukraine War: U.S. and NATO involvement in the February 2014 Coup and Maidan Massacre, and their historical antecedents.
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The Second Cold War is more dangerous than the first
Americans have to ask themselves: Is it worth risking nuclear war—and an apocalyptic nuclear winter—for no loftier purpose than to maintain their country’s violently enforced grasp of overwhelming global power?
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The indictment of Donald Trump: A politically bankrupt diversion
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is reportedly planning on leveraging this charge, which is a misdemeanor that has exceeded the statute of limitations, into a felony by arguing that the business records were falsified to cover up an illegal donation to Trump’s campaign, namely the money from Cohen to pay off Daniels.