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OTF – The “independent” internet freedom organization that makes all your favorite privacy apps–is staffed full of spies
While the OTF presents itself as independent internet freedom activists, their funding, staff, history and choice of targets all point to the conclusion that they are a digital weapon being used against Washington’s enemies.
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Unapologetic support for abortion rights must be a pillar of the Left
This week the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization–the case that will determine the fate of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, and more broadly, the fate of Roe v. Wade.
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Views on China
What is the experience and future for China and its Communist party rule? It seems appropriate to consider a number of new books on China that have been published that try to answer this question.
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White supremacy, Nazism and fascism R U.S.
Despite many criticisms, white supremacy remains not only well and strong, but is also recognized and hailed by the United States on the world stage as an acceptable and legitimate ideology.
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Supreme Court launches frontal assault on right to abortion
Two generations of Americans have no experience of the world before Roe v. Wade, during which obtaining an abortion was a surreptitious, often criminalized process, sometimes ending in physical mutilation and even death, and the right of women to make such decisions was subordinated to the reactionary ministrations of police, priests and politicians.
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The Local Journalism Initiative: a proposal to protect and extend democracy
What remains less appreciated is that the founders of the United States regarded creating a free press a policy issue of the greatest possible importance.
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The peasantry’s victory over imperialism
One should scarcely be surprised therefore by the fact that the western media have been so critical of the Modi government for its climbdown.
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Out of Afghanistan
This long bloody madness has ended.
Can we learn to love peace at last?
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‘U.S. Capitalism Born in Blood: From the First Thanksgiving to Today’ w/ Dr. Gerald Horne
The Thanksgiving holiday is built around an insidious and false creation myth–that the so-called “settling” of North America was a peaceful and amicable process.
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Texas’ abortion ban is having a ‘domino effect’ on clinics across the U.S.
“We are seeing massive ripple effects across the country for other states taking on displaced patients.”
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What role does the military play in climate change?
A gaping hole in the COP26 official agenda was the oversized role of the military industrial complex in environmental devastation. The US is a global leader on this front with the Pentagon being a bigger polluter than 140 countries combined.
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Millions more want to quit
The “Great Resignation” refers to the millions of people who have quit their job over the past 20 months, “more than 4.4 million alone in September” which is about the same as the previous month.
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‘Saddening, infuriating, and utterly unsurprising’: Rittenhouse acquitted
The verdict, said the Huber family, sends the “unacceptable message” that armed vigilantes can “use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.”
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‘Moderna is trying to turn this people’s vaccine into a rich people’s vaccine’
CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on NIH/Moderna patent
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There is one place in Cuba where torture occurs
Chilling testimony of the torture and abuses committed against Majid Khan, at the illegal U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, was recently presented by the prisoner.
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Latin America: modest advice for a confused Left
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) is a U.S. law passed in 1938 that requires individuals representing the interests of foreign governments, in “political or quasi-political capacity,” to disclose their relationship to said foreign government and provide detailed information on its finances and activities to the U.S. authorities.
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Capitalism and workers’ power
You don’t have to read Marx to understand the lack of power workers have under capitalism.
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Bloomberg CIA Apologia accidentally vindicates China’s strict domestic policies
Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdowns, widespread surveillance and strict control over Chinese society is making it harder for the CIA to undermine that nation, and now the CIA is expressing its frustration through the billionaire media.
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Class warfare and socialist resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as existential threats to the U.S.
Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to U.S. class warfare.
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Not just a love story?
Sekhar Kammula’s new film deftly highlights the contradictions of living in neo-liberal India.