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The narrative of sham elections
Every mainstream media outlet described the referenda in September in the Donetsk, Lugansk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR), Kherson Region and part of Zaporozhye as a “sham” and therefore “rigged.”
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11 years on… UK gets what it was always after; Libya’s oil
British oil giants BP and Shell are returning to the oil-rich north African country just over a decade after the UK took part in destabilizing the nation with the 2011 military intervention.
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Zero-Covid and the China protests: look at the bigger picture
Ever since the world’s first Covid outbreak in Wuhan, the virus has been used as a stick to beat China.
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Western media has not much evolved from the era of the yellow peril in its routine China-bashing
Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage.
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Haiti in the Caribbean: A political economy perspective on the urgent crisis of imperialism
If Haiti is “the poorest country in the hemisphere” it is because imperialist policies continue to impoverish and destabilize that nation.
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German military preparing for potential war with Russia, leaked internal report reveals
A leaked confidential strategy paper shows Germany is preparing for a potential war with Russia, as it boosts its budget and plans to become the world’s third-biggest military spender.
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Open veins of Africa bleeding heavily
The ongoing plunder of Africa’s natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt distress, rubbing salt into deep wounds from the past.
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Thomas Sankara: “We didn’t import our revolution”
This is the first English translation of this interview and the opening installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work by Thomas Sankara. This translation series is the result of a collaboration with ThomasSankara.net, an online platform dedicated to archiving work on and by the great African revolutionary.
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Hawai’i—the very first U.S. regime change
Illegitimate overthrow of Polynesian Queen Lili’uokalani in 1893 marked beginning of more than a century of American regime-change operations.
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U.S. media searched for crisis at China Party Congress
For the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reassuring.
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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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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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Ford blinks in face of union solidarity; will repeal Bill 28
Perhaps Ontario Premier Doug Ford wasn’t expecting the backlash he received when he enacted Bill 28 on Thursday last week.
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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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Bolivian president issues warning about destabilization attempts
The far-right opposition in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department has been seeking to destabilize the socialist government of President Luis Arce using the Population and Housing Census as pretext.
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Massive anti-Russian ‘Bot army’ exposed by Australian researchers
An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake ‘bot’ accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war.
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Declare a climate emergency: South Asian People’s Action on Climate Change
The following statement is issued by the South Asian People’s Action on Climate Change (SAPACC), a rainbow coalition of individuals and organizations from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka who are deeply concerned about the climate crisis.
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What worries the U.S. most about Lula
Steve Ellner says opposition to NATO’s stance on Ukraine has created fertile ground for the expansion of a bloc of non-aligned nations, now with a progressive possibly at the helm.
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Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba–U.S. and Israel are rogue states at UN
For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.