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Culture and existence: the message from Silger
It is quite common to think of the black man in the United States who finds himself in a moment of danger. But let us talk about the adivasi people in India who are in a similar situation. Not just danger, but they — their life, culture, forests and land — are facing a situation of accelerated danger.
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Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic of rifles (for Uvalde and other schools…)
for Uvalde and other schools…
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DHS ‘concerned’ over Nazis returning to U.S. after fighting in Ukraine. Why isn’t the media?
U.S. corporate media has provided glowing coverage to Paul Gray, a notorious American white nationalist fighting in Ukraine. A DHS document warns he’s not the only U.S. fascist drawn to Kiev.
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Culture for All: Why Film Matters
Action films, horror films, romantic comedies, science fiction, documentaries–film plays a big part of our lives. Film matters, not only because it was the most popular cultural art form of the 20th century, but because film connects to so many areas of our lives in so many different ways. Not only in the way we visualise our lives, but the ways in which we understand and communicate them.
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Nursing home CEO’s don’t want to follow the law; seek Judge’s help in ducking minimum staffing requirements
Less than two months after New York’s minimum-staffing requirements for nursing homes went into effect, a trade group has demanded that state courts block them.
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Mass shootings, Empire, and racist, copaganda dog whistles
Two mass shootings in quick succession brought out the worst in Americans. The anger and grief were followed by the usual lies and pretense that violence here is somehow mysterious. Political leaders advocate state violence all the time, calling for new victims to be created here and around the world.
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Empire solves Ukraine’s Nazi problem with a logo change
“The Azov Battalion has removed a neo-Nazi symbol from its insignia that has helped perpetuate Russian propaganda about Ukraine being in the grip of far-right nationalism,” The Times informs us.
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Report card on a failing economic system
On Friday, May 6, the Federal Reserve released data showing that consumer credit (debt) has been accelerating since the fourth quarter of last year, with revolving credit (largely credit card debt) speeding up at an even greater pace since the third quarter of 2021.
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Biden is preparing to crush a historic climate change lawsuit
A vital effort to establish a legal right to a living planet could soon move forward—but the Biden administration is trying to stop it.
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The U.S. baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
The baby formula crisis that is threatening the lives of infants across the U.S. deepened this week as the out-of-stock rate for baby formula on store shelves surged to 70 percent for the week ending May 22. The shortage rate during the previous week was 45 percent, according to the retail tracking firm Datasembly.
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Mark Esper’s tell-some reveals U.S. plans for war and terror against Venezuela
While barely covered in Western media, Esper’s confessions have caused a storm of commotion in the South American nation. However, Diego Sequera, a Caracas-based investigative journalist, told MintPress that few were taken aback by the news.
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Coward cops, government do nothing while children are massacred
The Party for Socialism and Liberation expresses our deepest condolences to those impacted by the horrific massacre that was committed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. We condemn in the strongest possible way this atrocious attack, and express our solidarity to the families, children, teachers, and community members who experienced and witnessed the tragedy and its aftermath.
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On African Liberation Day Biden’s troop deployment to Somalia confirms Africa is not free
The Biden Administration’s recent decision to return U.S. troops to Somalia represents another effort on the part of the U.S. to deny agency and independence to African people. On the 59th commemoration of African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace expresses its unequivocal opposition to this redeployment.
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Retired U.S. general calls for “coalition of the willing” for naval conflict with Russia
This massive escalation by the U.S. and NATO is being billed as a “coalition of the willing,” echoing the words used by the Bush administration to describe the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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And then there was no more Empire all of a sudden: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2022)
U.S. President Joe Biden is to host the Summit of the Americas in June, where he hopes to deepen Washington’s hegemony over the Americas.
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Two years since George Floyd’s death, has anything changed in the U.S.?
The gains and setbacks in the movement for Black lives prove how racism is woven deeply into the fabric of capitalism and US society.
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The U.S. unilateral sanctions against Russia will produce a global food disaster
“There is really no true solution to the problem of global food security without bringing back the agriculture production of Ukraine and the food and fertilizer production of Russia and Belarus into world markets despite the war.” These blunt words by UN Secretary-General António Guterres accurately describe the present global food crisis.
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“In Defense of Housing”, Zachary White
America made a neoliberal deal with the devil when it began to whittle away New Deal protections for the vulnerable.
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Oklahoma legislature takes anti-abortion offensive to new depths with ban from moment of fertilization!
The Oklahoma state legislature has passed perhaps the most extreme anti-abortion law in the United States. This law, known as HB 4327, takes the right-wing offensive against reproductive rights to an outrageous new height by banning all abortions in the state starting from the moment of fertilization.
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NATO vs Russia: what happens next
In Davos and beyond, NATO’s upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order.