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11 years on… UK gets what it was always after; Libya’s oil
British oil giants BP and Shell are returning to the oil-rich north African country just over a decade after the UK took part in destabilizing the nation with the 2011 military intervention.
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China pushes lifting of Zero-COVID after anti-lockdown protests
In the aftermath of last weekend’s protests in several Chinese cities, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) held a press conference Tuesday calling for speeding up the implementation of the 20 measures announced on November 11 which initiated the lifting of the country’s Zero-COVID policy that has suppressed numerous outbreaks over the past three years.
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U.S. commits to reignite space race during new Cold War vs. China, Russia
Artemis I is a dry run for the return to the moon, a test of the new Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule that will bring astronauts into lunar orbit on Artemis II and onto the surface on Artemis III.
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Recession alert: we need a new unemployment insurance system
With the Federal Reserve pushing up interest rates, we appear headed for a new recession.
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‘Holy Land Foundation 5’ are victims of America’s unjust persecution of Palestinians
The case against the “Holy Land 5” led to the wrongful conviction and unjust long-term imprisonment of five highly respected Palestinian men. Three of them, Mufid Abdulqader, Ghassan Elashi, and Shukri Abu Baker, remain imprisoned today.
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Western media has not much evolved from the era of the yellow peril in its routine China-bashing
Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage.
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Ron DeSantis’s Military Secrets: Torture & War Crimes
In this Eyes Left/Empire Files exclusive, Mike Prysner sheds light on the shadowy military career of Ron DeSantis.
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On the development of China’s environmental policies towards an ecological civilization
We are very pleased to republish this important article by Efe Can Gürcan, Associate Professor at Türkiye’s Istinye University, which originally appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 of the BRIQ(Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly).
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Haiti in the Caribbean: A political economy perspective on the urgent crisis of imperialism
If Haiti is “the poorest country in the hemisphere” it is because imperialist policies continue to impoverish and destabilize that nation.
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Amazon Labor Union’s small army of volunteer law students
Around 100 are helping in the battle against the country’s second-largest employer.
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French ambassador: U.S. ‘rules-based order’ means Western domination, violating international law
France’s ex U.S. Ambassador Gérard Araud criticized Washington for frequently violating international law and said its so-called “rules-based order” is an unfair “Western order” based on “hegemony.” He condemned the new cold war on China, instead calling for mutual compromises.
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China is building a truly ecological civilisation
While the inertia of the market-led nations gives us terrifying forecasts for the planet, state socialism in the east has delivered on wind and solar energy, green infrastructure, electric vehicles, reforestation and carbon reduction, reports CARLOS MARTINEZ.
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Social Democracy will not save us
The author makes the case that liberalism is a dead end and that socialism is the only tool for Black liberation.
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Hawai’i—the very first U.S. regime change
Illegitimate overthrow of Polynesian Queen Lili’uokalani in 1893 marked beginning of more than a century of American regime-change operations.
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U.S. media searched for crisis at China Party Congress
For the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reassuring.
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Haunted by the ghost of “Marbury v. Madison:” Judicial review and abolishing the Supreme Court
In 2022, after a handful of unelected judges serving lifetime terms in the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated the hard-won and overwhelmingly popular right to abortion, masses of people took to the streets to defend this democratic right to bodily autonomy.
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Attempt to try Russian leaders for war crimes is part of the West’s weaponization of the International Criminal Court
International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.
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Kingston tenants win historic 15% rent reduction
A grassroots tenant-organizing victory comes after Orlando and several cities across CA adopted rent control on Tuesday.
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U.S. bombers in the NT increase the risk of war
The Pentagon will deploy the B-52s to the Tindal air base near Katherine.
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Insurgency and counterinsurgency: an interview with Dylan Rodriguez
Roberto Sirvent and Dylan Rodriguez discuss the challenges of sustaining radical liberation movements.