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NYT trans letter a fight for media democracy
In a letter to New York Times leadership (2/15/23), more than 180 of the paper’s contributors (later swelling to more than 1,000) raised “serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming people.”
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Why do we have a balloon hysteria in the U.S.?
THE newsfeeds from the US seem to be completely insane. First, an F22 Raptor, the most expensive U.S. military aircraft, is used to shoot down a Chinese balloon over the Atlantic ocean.
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U.S. admits weather pushed Chinese balloon off course, U.S. shot down hobbyists’ $12 balloon in $2M missile attack
U.S. officials acknowledged the Chinese balloon they shot down on February 4 had likely been blown off course by unexpected weather. The U.S. Air Force later spent $2 million using missiles to blow up what appeared to be a $12 hobbyist balloon.
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Ukraine hawk who heads European Commission has a Nazi pedigree she does not want you to know about
Her father Ernst Albrecht, President of the German state of Lower Saxony from 1978 to 1990, brought unrehabilitated Nazis into his administration and carried out a black-flag terrorist operation designed to discredit the left-wing Red Army Faction.
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Germany: Reactions to peace manifesto
What happened? Even Gregor Gysi has now signed the “Manifesto for Peace” by Sahra Wagenknecht and Alice Schwarzer.
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ACTION ALERT: NYT Book Review in denial on Japanese persecution in World War II
The Times should issue an immediate correction and apology.
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Nord Stream terror attack: The plot thickens
Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report on how the United States government blew up the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea last September continues to generate rippling geopolitical waves all across the spectrum.
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Black Agenda Report Book Forum: An Interview with Garrett Felber
To commemorate 100 years since the birth of former political prisoner Martin Sostre, the Black Agenda Report Book Forum interviews Garrett Felber, A Visiting Fellow at Yale University who is currently writing a book about Sostre. The book is called, We Are All Political Prisoners (under contract with the University of North Carolina Press).
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Gerardo Hernández on the resilience and continuity of the Cuban revolution
Cuba today is facing one of its toughest tests. It has been under a U.S. financial and trade embargo for over six decades, and in the past year has suffered catastrophic environmental disasters with Hurricane Ian and the fire at the Matanzas fuel facility. In spite of this, the Cuban people continue to resist and defend their revolution.
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Did the U.S. blow up Nord Stream if there is no media to report it?
A respected investigative journalist explains how the U.S. sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines. But corporate media working in service to the state ignore the story and endanger the world.
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Inside Latin America’s new currency plan, with Ecuador’s presidential candidate Andrés Arauz
Ecuadorian economist and former presidential candidate Andrés Arauz explains Latin America’s attempt to create a new currency and regional financial architecture, to challenge the “hegemonic, neo-colonial” U.S. dollar-dominated system..
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With a 12% decrease, less Americans support aid for Ukraine: Poll
Americans are growing weary of the US support for Ukraine, a new poll suggests.
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Neruda was assassinated with a biological weapon, nephew denounces
Rodolfo Reyes, a lawyer and nephew of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, charged on Tuesday that the reports from two laboratories in Canada and Denmark confirm the assassination of the Nobel Prizewinner for Literature with a biological weapon.
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Media ignore Seymour Hersh bombshell report of U.S. destroying Nord Stream II
It has now been one week since Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report claiming that the Biden administration deliberately blew up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline without Germany’s consent or even knowledge–an operation which began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Snowden: U.S. distracting from Nord Stream blasts with ‘flying objects’
The U.S. is creating panic over a possible flying object downed above the United States and Canada to distract journalists from their possible major sabotage of the Nord stream blast, according to famed whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Chávez built a new economy: A conversation with Tony Boza (Part I)
An economist and National Assembly member reflects on the economic transformations that Chávez promoted.
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American Bar Association removes IHRA definition from antisemitism resolution
The American Bar Association passed a resolution condemning antisemitism but removed a reference to the controversial IHRA definition from its text.
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Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism
In the last days of the Trump administration, the U.S. government returned Cuba to its state sponsors of terrorism list. This was a vindictive act. Trump said it was because Cuba played host to guerrilla groups from Colombia, which was actually part of Cuba’s role as host of the peace talks.
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U.S. ‘balloons’ flew 10 times over China since last year: FM spox
Wang assures that his country’s response to US aerial objects intercepting Chinese airspace has been both professional and responsible.
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Capitalism in Black and Blue
Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.