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Clarence Thomas reversed position after gifts and family payments
The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine.
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The murder of Jordan Neely Abetted by Eric Adams, worst Black Mayor in the Country
Black New Yorkers should have a semblance of confidence that their lives can’t be snuffed out without a killer being punished.
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The Pentagon has been recolonizing University campuses—why aren’t more students protesting?
Once upon a time getting a college degree meant reading classic literature and philosophy, learning about history and politics, studying mathematics and science, learning new languages, and debating the great issues of the day in student forums.
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India: The grim unemployment scenario
THE data on unemployment brough out by the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) present a grim picture. Not only has the unemployment rate increased sharply for some years now, starting from even before the pandemic, but the figure which had shot up during the pandemic has not come down much despite the recovery that has occurred in the level of GDP from its trough.
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Africans in the U.S. are a colonized people: A comment on the indictment of the African People’s Socialist Party
Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, “Black Identity Extremists” are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.
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4 U.S. banks crash in 2 months
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the collapse of four U.S. banks in two months, giant JP Morgan Chase taking over First Republic Bank, and how government regulators are in bed with the bankers.
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Stop the war on LGBTQ teachers
It’s hard enough being a teacher at all, but cruel new laws are putting dedicated LGBTQ teachers in particular danger. When will the madness end?
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Syria returns to Arab League
Iraqi Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ahmad Al-Sahhaf announces Syria has been offically granted a return to the Arab League.
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A kingly proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III
On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.
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Former president of Mexico revealed as CIA asset
Declassified documents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have revealed that former president of Mexico, José López Portillo, who led the country during 1976-1982, was a CIA asset.
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Multiple U.S. officials confronted about U.S. Assange hypocrisy on World Press Freedom Day
Assange exposed many things about our rulers during his work with WikiLeaks, but none of those revelations have been as significant as what he’s forced them to reveal about themselves in the lengths that they will go to to silence a journalist who tells inconvenient truths.
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U.S. makes up c 40% of global military spending, 10x Russia, 3x China
The United States spent $877 billion on its military in 2022, nearly 40% of the global total, 10 times more than Russia ($86.4 billion), and three times more than China ($292 billion). The U.S. military budget is larger than the next 10 biggest spenders combined.
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Indiana Jones, Hollywood’s chief colonial pilferer, is back
If the official trailer is any indication, “mistakes” of the past regarding the depiction of other cultures (Euro-Western supremacy’s gaffes are all too often by design) will be repeated.
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Force-marching the Europeans
Am I the only American to travel overseas and feel embarrassed by the conduct of the diplomats Washington sends abroad to speak for our republic?
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#LetHerSpeak: Rep. Zooey Zephyr and supporters defy anti-trans bigots
On April 26, the far-right-dominated Montana state legislature in Helena censured the state’s first elected trans representative, Zooey Zephyr, after silencing her for several days and threatening her with expulsion.
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From yellow journalism to China bashing, the media’s enduring role in promoting war
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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DeSantis role in Guantanamo Bay killings exposed with a holed report
The height of inhumane treatment and systemic torture in the camp was during DeSantis’ term serving as a JAG officer, whose main task was to identify the weaknesses of the detainees and to “tighten the screws” on them.
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Liberia and the challenges of U.S. imperialism
Liberia’s history should be understood as that of a colony, the first U.S. overseas colony.
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You are reading this thanks to semiconductors: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2023)
On 7 October 2022, the United States government implemented export controls in an effort to hinder the development of China’s semiconductor industry.
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150 young organizers from the U.S. travel to Cuba defying the blockade
Over 150 young leaders from a variety of organizations in the U.S. are in Cuba to participate in a solidarity brigade organized by the International Peoples’ Assembly. They are meeting with different sectors of Cuban society to learn about the impact of the U.S. blockade and experiences in building socialism.