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Millions suffer as junk food industry rakes in profit
Increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. That is the finding of a new peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Offloading climate responsibility on the victims of climate change
Nnimmo Bassey (NB): Simple solutions are avoided in today’s world because they don’t support capital.
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Canadian journalist added to Ukrainian hitlist
It’s no secret that Ukraine’s so-called “Center to Control Disinformation” operates a database which publicizes the private information of thousands of journalists worldwide.
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Oil and gas industry’s expansion plans decried as attack on ‘livable planet’
Fossil fuel giants are moving to ramp up extraction as new data shows that the industry has been emitting three times more planet-heating pollution than it claims.
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World at dangerous crossroads, only two paths forward: anti-imperialist socialism or fascist barbarism
The US-led imperialist world system is in deep crisis, so it wages a new cold war to prevent multipolarity, while lurching toward fascism. The left must offer a true alternative path that opposes both the far right and the liberal pro-NATO chauvinists.
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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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Who’s really behind Burkina Faso’s coup?
Western media fixates on coup supporters waving Russian flags in Burkina Faso’s capital while overlooking the long history of U.S. and French control over the country–and its destabilizing consequences.
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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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“If Europe is incapable of working for peace, it will vanish from history!”
Georges Martin: Switzerland has always considered that there are two elements to its neutrality: the “right of neutrality” in case of war, as stipulated in the Hague Convention of 1907, and the “policy of neutrality”.
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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.
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The U.S. faces increasing resistance from Europe over escalating the Ukraine conflict
THE People’s Assembly demonstration this weekend was a welcome return to the mass politics of the streets and a valuable first challenge to the austerity programme that the Tories are carefully constructing.
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Getting closer
Most Germans conceive of nuclear warfare as an intercontinental battle between Russia (formerly the Soviet Union) and the United States, with ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads crossing the Atlantic or, as the case may be, the Pacific. Europe may or may not get hit, but since the world would anyway go under, there is no need really to think about any of this.
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Canadian Professor attacked by mainstream media for opposing NATO narrative on Ukraine
A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Professor Michael Carley at the University of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign.
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Oppose the Berlin state’s witch-hunting campaign against Roger Waters over claims of “anti-Semitism!”
The witch-hunting and defamation campaign against British rock musician Roger Waters has also reached Berlin. Last week, Samuel Salzborn, the anti-Semitism commissioner of the Social Democratic-Left Party-Green Senate (state executive), called for the cancellation of a planned concert by the co-founder of the band Pink Floyd in the capital.
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Abortion: A pillar of a broad pro-democracy and human rights coalition
Mabel Bellucci was integrally involved in the Argentinian abortion movement from the 1980s until the early 2000s—an era of struggle that set the stage for the recent liberalization of the country’s abortion law.
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U.S. and allies vote for Nazism at U.N.
Annually, each year, since 2005, the U.S. Government has been one of only from 1 to 3 Governments to vote in the U.N. General Assembly against an annual statement by the General Assembly against racism and other forms of bigotry—an annual Resolution condemning it, and expressing a commitment to doing everything possible to reduce bigoted acts.
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“Lithium triangle” seeks OPEC-style cartel as Lithium demand increases
Lithium-rich countries such as Argentina, Chile, Bolivia as well as Indonesia, seek to establish an Opec-like organization according to a Quartz report.
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Ethiopia nears victory in Its Civil War, U.S. scrambles to control the outcome
The Ethiopian and Eritrean armies now seem close to winning a two-year war with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF,) a U.S.-backed clique that ruled Ethiopia brutally for 27 years, from 1991 to 2018.
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An Eastern-European cesspit of criminality & governmental corruption
Ukraine is a source, transit and destination point for human trafficking, which is extremely pervasive in the country. It is reportedly one of the largest countries of origin for people subject to forced labour in Europe.
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The story of the Lions’ Den
The Lions’ Den was relatively unknown outside of Nablus until a few months ago but today they have gained hero-like status across Palestine — for leading a revival of armed resistance against Israeli colonialism. This is their story.