Subjects Archives: State Repression

Despite 14 member states voting in favor, the U.S., as a permanent member, exercised its veto for the fifth time since October 2023.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and new field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern Gaza.

Russia has announced a $60 million diesel shipment to Cuba during bilateral meeting in Havana.

VA columnist Andreína Chávez raises alarms about the escalating threats of mercenary invasions in Venezuela, pointing to the role the U.S. has played.

For the last six decades, Cuba has been on the receiving end of myriad sanctions by the United States government. This blockade has proved devastating to human life.

Unearthing the chapter on fascism from Paul Sweezy’s The Theory of Capitalist Development (Monthly Review Press, January 1942).

Mainstream western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist.

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell has described the killing of children as another “dark chapter” in the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza.

With a constant stream of media exposing genocidal war in Palestine, child labor in the Congo, and Indigenous struggles in South America, neoliberalism’s colonial nature is clearer than ever. Now is the time to return to the works of Fanon and explore a radically different future liberated from coloniality, Ken Olende explores.

Once again, the United States and Israel voted against the lifting of arbitrary sanctions against the Cuban people.

A Lebanese security source has revealed the U.S. ambassador is calling on her allies to ‘do their part’ to destroy Hezbollah.

The media hawks are flying high, pushing out bellicose rhetoric on the op-ed pages that seems calculated to whip the public into a war-ready frenzy.

For 24 days, the Israeli military siege has combined an intense bombing campaign with a ground incursion.

The ongoing U.S./Israeli genocide has diverted attention away from other crimes. The electricity crisis in Cuba is but one example of how the U.S. determination to dominate has created suffering around the world.

Israel is continuing to systematically destroy the northern Gaza Strip, carrying out ethnic extermination campaigns and forced mass expulsion.

This article is the second in a series covering how the tiny Pacific Island nation of Kiribati has become enmeshed in the new Cold War. The country has a forthcoming election on October 25 and the U.S. and its allies are advancing a covert regime change operation designed to unseat President Taneti Maamau, who has aligned Kiribati with China.—Editors

Israel is emptying northern Gaza of its inhabitants during its ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. One of the key strategies it is using to achieve this is by hospitals, and the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia has become a primary target.

The United States is waging an economic war against Venezuela.

The inclusion of Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list has severely limited the island nation from accessing funds and the international market.

Social media users in northern Gaza say that Israel is deliberately killing civilians in Jabalia and the situation is ‘straight out of a horror movie’