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“Chinese aggression” sure looks an awful lot like U.S. aggression
Punchbowl News reports that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning a trip to Taiwan, which will be yet another incendiary provocation against Beijing if it occurs. The previous House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, sparked a significant escalation in hostilities with her visit last year, the consequences of which are still reverberating today.
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‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’
‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’
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Short video on the U.S. military and climate disaster
Ireland has to stop collaborating with the U.S. military/industrial complex by allowing U.S. troops and in Shannon Airport (3 million and rising so far).
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Who will speak up for my child, the drag queen?
And the Non-Binary and Transgender Folks Among Us, Too.
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Cop City kills before it opens
What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police training ground that the community doesn’t want? Someone could be killed, and that happened before Atlanta’s awful Cop City project has even been built.
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Exaggerating China’s military spending, St. Louis Fed breaks all statistical rules with misleading graph
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a jaw-droppingly misleading graph that portrays China as spending more on its military than the U.S. In reality, the Pentagon’s budget is roughly three times larger.
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Book Review: ‘No Equal Justice: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett’
David Gespass has been on the editorial board of the National Lawyers Guild Review for over twenty-years including several years as Editor in Chief. He is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. David is doing his best to retire from the active practice of law with only moderate success.
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Antiwar marchers honor MLK, say ‘NO’ to NATO proxy war in Ukraine
On Jan. 14, a large crowd gathered in Times Square in New York City to honor the true legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and demand an end to the brutal U.S.-NATO proxy war being waged in Ukraine.
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Media in the digital age
The dramatic changes in the technology of mass communications should be brought in line with the larger goals of humanity and a more humane society.
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Actions and rallies in solidarity with fight against ‘Cop City’ grows over weekend
Sunday marked the fourth straight day of vigils, protests, and rallies in solidarity with the struggle in Atlanta, following the police murder of Tortuguita, with more scheduled throughout the coming week.
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The lawsuit that could freeze speech against billionaires
A gas mogul’s case against Beto O’Rourke could deter candidates from ever talking about money in politics.
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FBI wants to put me on trial for fighting for Black freedom: Instead put the colonizer State on trial!
There are strong indications that in early 2023, I, Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, founder of the Uhuru (“Freedom”) Movement, will be indicted, along with other Uhuru leaders and members, by the federal government of the United States.
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Public libraries continue to thrive despite defunding and privatization attacks
The public sector in the U.S. has been shrinking rapidly since the 1990s as a deluge of privatization has, to various degrees, overtaken many so-called public services and institutions.
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Practical nuclear fusion is still just hype
Don’t believe the headlines: there’s much less happening than pro-fusion pundits claim.
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The U.S. is already preparing for its next war: on China
While the U.S. and NATO wage a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, military strategists and pundits in Washington have set their sights on China.
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A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate
Make Sunsets is already attempting to earn revenue for geoengineering, a move likely to provoke widespread criticism.
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The World Split Apart 2.0: Part 3 and Conclusion
Like during the Cold War, the global schism has a military component that is gradually intensifying. The emerging East-West military standoff is building on the energy of the polarization exacerbated by the Russo-Ukrainian war for NATO expansion.
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Blunders – Splits – War
Today the Linke is tragically split, on both political approaches and personalities.… [M]ost worrisome is the split about the present war. Some in the Left downplay the role of NATO, call for total condemnation of Russian imperialism and total military support for the Ukraine, in agreement with most media positions.
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End of Cold War Illusions
In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”
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How the Supreme Court could severely limit workers’ right to strike
A case the Supreme Court heard on Tuesday could make unions and workers liable for any damages their company incurred during a strike, dealing a blow to organized labor.