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And then Biden blew it …
The Biden talk, made official by posting it on the White House site, is an insult to China. Whatever Blinken has said or done to smooth the relations is now gone. It was already known that the U.S. can not be trusted with anything that it says. What counts is what the U.S. does and there it has so far shown no positive move towards China.
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New U.S. anti-immigrant measures: Militarization, and discrimination watches over the border
It is hard to imagine it could get any worse, but another calamitous situation has been created at the U.S.-Mexico border due to the new policies implemented by Joe Biden’s administration, which have forced hundreds of migrants to wait on the Mexican side.
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Discovering largest known U.S. slave auction
Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified, Jennifer Berry Hawes reports.
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Strategies of denial
There has been a lively debate on the American left about the Biden Administration’s industrial strategy.
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Haiti: Stop the destruction of a Nation
Ever since the Haitian people successfully overthrew slavery and colonialism in 1804, they have been subjected to interventions and policies by the French and U.S. governments–from devastating “debt” collection to brutal military occupation, from coups to neocolonial puppet dictatorships–designed to destroy their existence as sovereign people, as an independent nation.
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Trump charges: why ‘unprecedented’?
“It is hard to overstate the gravity of the criminal indictment”, the New York Times editorial board wrote on 9 June, noting Trump’s “contempt for the rule of law”.
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Our ongoing march into dystopia and oblivion
The neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute is now floating the idea of giving nukes to Ukraine, which is about as evil and demented a foreign policy position as anyone could possibly come up with.
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Assange: An unholy masquerade of tyranny disguised as justice
Julian’s persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state.
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A trans person reflects on Cuba and Florida
Melinda Butterfield: “As I sat in Miami, I was keenly aware that Gov. Ron DeSantis was preparing to sign several laws aimed at banning trans people from public life and getting the health care they need to live.” (DeSantis did sign these laws just a few days later, not by coincidence, on May 17 – the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.)
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U.S. imperialist gangsterism and Cuba
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a Rogue State as “a nation or state regarded as breaking international law and posing a threat to the security of other nations.”
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Exposed: Disturbing details of the Pentagon “Perception Management Office”
Its existence is not strictly secret, although there has been no official announcement of its launch, let alone an explanation from Department of Defense (DoD) officials as to its raison d’être or modus operandi. Its budget likewise remains a mystery but purportedly runs into the “multimillions.”
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The rape of Lady Justice
This is an open-and-shut case of the judiciary being misused to keep Trump out of the political process. Unlike during the Russiagate years, liberal authoritarians know they are operating in broad daylight this time.
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The ‘Fourth Turning’ that will define our Century
European economies are reeling from inflation and the spectre of de-industrialisation-fuelled by self-imposed foreswearing of all imports of cheap Russian energy.
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Anti-trans politicians are following the Nazi playbook
Right-wingers don’t have any answers for the issues that matter, so they’re viciously attacking a vulnerable minority.
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Colombia’s blood-soaked right must not be allowed to eject President Petro
TRADE unions marching in defence of Colombia’s first left-wing president need support, solidarity and publicity from their British counterparts.
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CNN needs more than a new CEO—it needs a new model of journalism
After less than a year, Warner Bros Discovery has ousted CNN chair and CEO Chris Licht.
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First there were Neo-Nazis, then there were no Nazis, then there were
A New York Times’ reporter’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.
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An Interview with Benjamin Abelow, M.D., author of ‘How the West Brought War to Ukraine’
The following is a revised and expanded version of an interview with Benjamin Abelow, author of ‘How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe’, originally published in Italian translation by the Italian news and commentary site, QuotidianoWeb.
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State repression targets the Stop Cop City movement
Cop City is an effort to ensure that state violence will bring the most draconian methods to bear against Black people. State violence is also being used proactively, in an effort to end opposition to this creation of Atlanta’s white ruling class and their errand boys and girls who ostensibly control a fake mecca for Black people.
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In a historic step backwards, the U.S. limits the right to strike
The Supreme Court ruled against the Teamsters, opening the door to unions being sued for ‘damages’ to a company during–or due to–strike action, report MARK GRUENBERG and JOHN WOJCIK