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Samir Amin on Cuba
Samir Amin locates Cuba within the Latin American context, and therefrom, it acquires much of its specificity to him–but not all. While Cuba is the only country to challenge the Monroe Doctrine in Latin America, or at least was, until Venezuela and Nicaragua came onto the scene; it is not only anti-imperialist, but also Communist.
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Junk science is being used to attack trans youth
In Florida and elsewhere, Republican lawmakers are using faulty research to deny young people access to vital gender-affirming care.
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Turning a San Francisco recall into rout for police reform
San Francisco voted on June 7 to recall its district attorney, Chesa Boudin, a reformer who had challenged the traditional “lock ’em up” policies of big-city prosecutors.
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Ruins of Azov Steel Factory display Nazi insignia and signs of NATO support
Owner of plant, Rinat Akhmetov, is allegedly connected to organized crime.
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Lukashenko’s prediction comes true–regime change comes to Uzbekistan
Lukashenko had predicted the highly coincidental timing that suggests that the current strife in Uzbekistan has been orchestrated as a means to eventually lead to further destabilization along Russia’s southern border.
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SPEECH: The Black Revolution is Part of World-wide Struggle, Malcolm X, 1964
Malcolm X reminds us of the deceit of liberals, the power of international thinking, and the coming of Black revolution.
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Fueling the Warfare State
America’s $1.4 trillion “National Security” budget makes us ever less safe.
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As anti-BDS bills become the norm, ACLU takes free speech fight to the Supreme Court
In June, a federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas law barring state contractors from boycotting Israel, sparking concerns over First Amendment rights in the United States.
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The making of the Evangelical anti-abortion movement
In 1971, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, adopted a resolution calling on fellow Southern Baptists to work to make abortion legal under certain conditions, namely, ‘rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother’.
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Ending pandemic aid created a disaster
New data show the end of pandemic relief coincided with a 49 percent increase in the number of families struggling to survive.
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How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and banishing the diseases of the poor
The drastic reduction in infant mortality rates is yet another testimony to the Cuban Revolution’s attention to the health of the country’s population.
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Black Alliance for Peace condemns massacre of African migrants by U.S.- backed Moroccan armed forces
Video images captured the horrific actions of Moroccan security forces armed and trained by the United States through the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and working on behalf of the Spanish government, systematically beating and slaughtering African migrants on June 24, 2022.
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The Future of Work (Part 2) – working long and hard
In the first post of my Future of Work series, I looked at the impact of working from home and remote work which has mushroomed since the COVID pandemic.
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There are hungry people. There are hungry people: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reports that, every minute, a child is pushed into hunger in fifteen countries most ravaged by the global food crisis.
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Roberts is the man behind the curtain
The Chief Justice’s rulings legalizing corruption built the foundation of this era’s extremist laws and court precedents.
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Koch machine pressing Supreme Court to crush EPA
Dark money groups funded by the fossil fuel billionaire are lobbying justices to block the agency from limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Where to get abortion pills and how to use them
New U.S. restrictions could turn abortion into do-it-yourself medicine, but there might be legal risks.
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The Rightwing’s Supreme Court Coup
THE OFFICIAL overturn of Roe v. Wade was announced as this issue of ATCgoes to press. It didn’t require a white-nationalist riot, invading the Capitol at the instigation of Donald Trump, to tear huge holes in long-established constitutional rights in the United States. Where that frontal assault failed, a flanking maneuver by the right wing has met with success — including a blatant pseudo-constitutional coup by Court.
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Transcending the ‘imperial mode of living’
An interview with political scientist Ulrich Brand
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Corbyn on the Establishment’s campaign against him
In an interview with Matt Kennard, the former Labour Party leader speaks candidly about British media, the U.K. military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia.