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Be moderate…we only want THE EARTH!
We have to recognize that there is a pathway forward for humanity, but that the capitalist world system, and today’s governments that are largely subservient to corporations and the wealthy, are blocking that pathway, simply because it requires revolutionary-scale socioecological change.
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Everything you‘ve always wanted to know about: ‘good’ wars, ‘good’ war criminals, ‘good’ dictators, ‘good’ separatists, ‘good’ oligarchs, ‘good’ money launderers—and their antitheses!
When Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s president, invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, he was a “good” dictator. His invasion of the neighboring country was not only approved by the United States and its Western satellites, but also universally supported by them. Unlike secular Iraq, Iran was led by so-called vicious Islamic clerics.
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The Tories fiddle while the planet burns, but protest is growing – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on unfolding economic and environmental crises, and how we should respond.
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Pelosi could spark ‘more serious’ Taiwan Straits crisis; China-U.S. ties would fall off cliff if Washington intended to crash ‘guardrails’
China-U.S. ties would fall off cliff if Washington intended to crash ‘guardrails’.
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White man’s media: legacy media in the U.S. and UK frames and conditions our thinking and actions
Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the media. That colonial media mind set in turn promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’.
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Kononovich brothers thank supporters as trial resumes in Ukraine
Jailed communist Mikhail Kononovich thanked supporters who have protested in solidarity with Ukrainian political prisoners as the trial of him and his brother Alexander resumed on Monday.
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Despite the evidence, courts yet to take note of spyware used against Elgar Parishad accused
The evidence of malware use has now come in from multiple studies, but the accused remain in jail and the trial is yet to begin.
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Class struggle inside Ukraine
Two recent articles in Open Democracy report responses from Ukrainian trade unions to the “Lugano Declaration”, which came out of a conference between high Western and Ukrainian officials in Switzerland last week and sets out plans for economic reconstruction “after the war is over” by the Ukrainian Oligarchy* and its major imperial sponsors; the U.S., UK and EU.
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Why the U.S. failed to control COVID-19: incompetence, class violence, deception, and lies
The United States (together with its Western allies) always tries to tell China what to do in managing COVID-19 outbreaks, and since the whole city of Shanghai was under lockdown, the U.S. media seems to have even more reasons to criticize China’s anti-virus policy.
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On Marxism and decolonisation
IN 1959, one of the revolutionary leaders in Cuba, Haydée Santamaria, a hundred years old this year, arrived at a cultural centre in the heart of Havana, Cuba.
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Investigation finds evidence of war crimes by UK special forces in Afghanistan
A years-long investigation by BBC Panorama has revealed evidence of the repeated killings of unarmed Afghan civilians and detainees by the UK’s elite Special Air Service, and the attempted cover-up.
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Standardized testing
Did it ever strike you as odd that the foundation on which standardized testing is based is a self-contradiction?
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Will our children be literate? Will they look forward to the future with dignity?: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)
The world is adrift in the tides of hunger and desolation. It is difficult to think about education, or anything else, when your children are not able to eat.
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UK bill threatens journalist with life in prison
Journalists And Publishers Could Face Life Sentences If National Security Bill 2022, Being Debated In The U.K. Parliament, Becomes Law.
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NATO and Africa
It is timely not only because NATO is concluding its meeting in Madrid as we speak, but also AFRICOM as one of the many arms of NATO is conducting its yearly military exercises called “African Lion” on the African continent at this time.
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Sisi says “let them eat leaves” as food crisis sharpens class lines in Egypt
The war in Ukraine, rising oil prices and spiralling global inflation have fuelled food scarcity and surges in the price of basic goods in Egypt. Most worrying among the goods affected is bread, which makes up almost 40 percent of the average Egyptian’s diet.
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The imaginary war
What were the policy cliques, “the intelligence community” and the press that serves both going to do when the kind of war in Ukraine they talked incessantly about turned out to be imaginary, a Marvel Comics of a conflict with little grounding in reality? I have wondered about this since the Russian intervention began on Feb. 24. I knew the answer would be interesting when finally we had one.
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M.I. Asma – ‘On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal’
It is a testament to the power of On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal that a set of interventions written across the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic should remain so potent and resonant as we approach its fourth year.
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U.S. war hawk John Bolton boasts that he planned coups d’état abroad
The former White House national security advisor under Donald Trump admits his direct involvement in efforts to overthrow legitimate governments around the globe.
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Afghanistan and Xinjiang
I find the best way to understand what happened in Xinjiang is to contrast it with Afghanistan.