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Anti-NATO protests in Sweden as the country hosts large int’l exercise
Protesters across 17 cities in Sweden, including Stockholm, voice opposition to the international military exercise hosted by their country.
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We STILL don’t get it: It is an Empire, Folks!
In mid-March 2023, David Swanson published a very interesting article: “Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned.” There were some things in there I agreed with, some I disagreed with, others I might want to debate. Still, I appreciated his effort to pull together ideas from these experiences. However, there’s one thing that he did […]
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Three massive ways the government wastes your tax dollars
Here are three examples of criminal misuse of enormous sums of money that could meet human needs, but instead are spent underwriting terrible violence and bolstering corporate profits.
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McCarthyism resurges: Radical U.S.-based organizations condemn U.S. indictments of African People’s Socialist Party members
Activists on the left, as well as radical U.S.-based organizations, came out yesterday against the indictments of three members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), one former party member, and three Russian nationals for allegedly attempting to sow discord in the United States by working with Russia.
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Why the Saudis have called off their Israeli wedding
After leading Israel’s extreme far-right to victory in last November’s elections, a buoyant Benjamin Netanyahu hoped to quickly resume Tel Aviv’s march towards full normalization with Arab regimes.
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The U.S. could use some separation of media and State
The U.S. State Department’s spokesperson Ned Price is being replaced by a man named Matthew Miller.
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While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages eastern Africa
The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth.
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The death of over a thousand garment workers in Bangladesh
On Wednesday 24 April 2013, 3,000 workers entered Rana Plaza, an eight-story building in the Dhaka suburb of Savar in Bangladesh.
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Tax-free day for the ultra-wealthy
New data show the wealthiest Americans have stashed $2 trillion in offshore tax havens, as the government relaxes efforts to combat tax evasion.
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It can and did happen here: Three L.A. museums shine spotlight on the Hollywood Blacklist’s 75th anniversary
Three museums are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist, the darkest period in Tinseltown history.
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Biden DOJ indicts four Americans for “weaponized” free speech
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says “weaponized” the First Amendment rights of Americans.
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NATO’s growing military presence in Latin America and the Caribbean (Part I, II & III)
At the end of last year, the United States had installed 12 military bases in Panama, 12 in Puerto Rico, 9 in Colombia, 8 in Peru, 3 in Honduras, 2 in Paraguay, as well as installations of this type in Aruba, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Cuba (Guantanamo), and Peru among other countries, at the same time that it is orienting its search for the total coverage of the land and maritime surface of the region.
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Snowden and Texeira: Ten years of disaster
Jack Texeira is at the centre of this puzzle but remains the missing piece. We have heard nothing from him. A rather unconvincing interview with a suspiciously fluent, pixeled out acquaintance grassing him up to the Washington Post stated that he was a right wing patriot.
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The financial backers of the war on woke
Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires—like his backers. SOLOMON HUGHES unveils the trail.
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Amazon shows us the many faces of worker alienation and resistance today
Once again we find ourselves in moments of economic crisis. As we battle through inflation and rounds of devaluation, thousands of workers around the world have lost their livelihoods. Yet amidst this all, we have seen workers across the globe go on strike and protest.
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The sudden arrival of a cold war with China
Within a few short years we have gone from celebrating links with China to ripping up essential relationships and paving the ground for military conflict — we must now oppose Aukus and a new nuclear arms race, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE.
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BRICS Bank de-dollarizing, promises 30% of loans in local currencies, new chief Dilma Rousseff says
The new chief of the BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, Brazil’s leftist ex-President Dilma Rousseff, revealed they are gradually moving away from the U.S. dollar, promising at least 30% of loans in local currencies of members.
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‘The U.S. incarcerates more immigrants than anywhere else in the World’
CounterSpin interview with Silky Shah on detention center fire.
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The U.S. Navy and climate change
If one were only to read the headlines over the last two years, it might seem as if the U.S. military is late to the problem of climate change. However, as a large emitter of greenhouse gasses (51 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents in 2019 alone), the U.S. military has been researching, anticipating, and planning for the effects of climate change for decades.
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The First International issue of Wenhua Zongheng is a landmark event for the Global Left
Wenhua Zongheng is a newly launched international publication bringing together articles originally produced in the Mainland China magazine of the same name in Chinese. It is jointly published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, by Wenhua Zongheng, the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, and Dongsheng—which produces the newsletter News on China.