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As Ukraine war escalates, the climate movement goes AWOL
Lascaris: This is no time to prioritize political expediency and serenity over the reputational perils of anti-war activism.
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Real Estate industry spends big to crush LA “mansion tax”
Corporate real estate interests have come out in full force to try and defeat a ballot measure to hike taxes on multimillion-dollar property sales.
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Mainland media fail to ask why Puerto Rico requires ‘resilience’
The people of Puerto Rico woke up on the morning of September 19 only to relive a nightmare. Two days before Hurricane Maria’s five-year anniversary, on September 18, Hurricane Fiona made landfall on the island’s southwest coast. The storm caused widespread flooding, landslides and power outages. At least 16 people have died as a result.
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Largest leak in British political history, ignored by media
For those of you who aren’t British, you might not have kept up with what happened to the once almost-prime minister Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party over the past few years. Here’s a 30-second, way to reductive rundown. Jeremy Corbyn is like Britain’s Bernie Sanders, except more left-wing. And he never gave 135 speeches […]
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What accounts for the war lust among American Liberals?
This past June, Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy adviser Matt Duss (an alumnus of the Saudi- and UAE- funded Center for American Progress) published a widely discussed essay in The New Republic in which he declared that American liberals and progressives need to prioritize expressions of “solidarity” with Ukraine over policies that might put an end to the bloodshed.
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Worthless House Progressives retract mild peace advocacy under pressure from warmongers
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has retracted an extremely mild, toothless letter its members had written to c politely asking him to consider adding a little diplomacy into the mix to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The retraction followed a deluge of public outrage against their slight deviation from the official imperial narrative.
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Russia raises dirty bomb allegations at UN Security Council
The IAEA is going to inspect two sites in Ukraine where Russia claims work is being done to build a dirty bomb.
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U.S. waging ‘unilateral’ economic and tech war to halt China’s rise, DC insiders say openly
The Biden administration’s aggressive sanctions aim to “kneecap” China’s tech sector. A former Pentagon official acknowledged it is a “disproportionate” and “unilateral” attack, a “form of economic containment.”
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Who is this ‘Haiti’ that’s appealing for intervention?
Military intervention into Haiti is in the air again.
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Private companies helped ruin Jackson’s water
As Mississippi considers privatizing Jackson’s water, parts of the city system already run by private companies have been left in ruins.
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The American Empire runs through the compact States
U.S. officials envision imperial roles for Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
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Dirty bomb, destruction of Kakhovka Dam-Ukraine’s dangerous games
For several days now, the threat of Ukraine using a dirty bomb or destroying the Kakhovka dam has been causing an extremely dangerous rise in tension. By allowing Kiev to do whatever it wants, even the worst war crimes and terrorist acts, the West is encouraging Ukraine to continue playing with fire, at the risk of provoking a disaster that would go beyond the country’s borders.
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BC NDP shreds its credibility again with Appadurai disqualification
Appadurai’s leadership run crystallized into a grassroots challenge to the party establishment. The party struck back.
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The U.S. signals readiness to launch nuclear strike against Russia
U.S. Navy announced that “General Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla, commander of CENTCOM, conducted a visit aboard the USS West Virginia, a U.S. Navy Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at an undisclosed location at sea in international waters in the Arabian Sea. Kurilla was joined on the USS West Virginia by Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet and NAVCENT.”
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EU confesses ‘our prosperity was based on China & Russia’: Cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell confessed the West’s neoliberal economic model was “based on cheap energy coming from Russia,” “access to the big China market,” and low-paid Chinese workers. Europe has now lost that, and is thus in crisis.
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The last thing Haiti needs is another military intervention: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2022)
At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’.
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Blinken falsely blames China for U.S. hostility directed at it
On Monday U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken made a curious remark: “China plans to seize Taiwan on ‘much faster timeline.”
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Unions call for transport strike to cause major disruptions
French union groups call for a nationwide transport strike as disruptions continue amid fuel shortages and soaring prices.
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Cuba in the eye of Washington’s hurricane
Since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, the United States has been at odds with the island’s independent path.
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Double standards on full display with Western Sahara occupation
Numerous countries, including Canada, profit from the illegal exploitation of Sahrawi resources.