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U.S. president confirms deployment of troops in Yemen
Biden’s letter to Congress reaffirms continued U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition.
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Mexico’s President AMLO condemns U.S. blockade of Cuba as ‘genocide’ and ‘tremendous violation of human rights’
Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) denounced the illegal U.S. blockade of Cuba as a “type of genocide” and “tremendous violation of human rights.”
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How monsters who beat Jews to death in 1944 became America’s favorite “Freedom Fighters” in 1945—with a little help from their friends at CIA (Part 2)
After the end of the Second World War, American intelligence immediately set about the work of rehabilitating the world’s fascists to fight the new war on Communism.
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Joe Biden’s saber-rattling threatens World War III—with China and Russia
Fits long pattern of war-mongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century.
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Paul Mason’s covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed
Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through “relentless deplatforming” and a “full nuclear legal” attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.
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100 million Russian books in line for ban
Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (part of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture), has claimed that they will begin working towards withdrawing over 100 million so-called ‘propaganda’ books from public libraries in Ukraine.
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Interview with Akinyele Umoja
Kuwasi Balagoon is one of the most heroic and remarkable figures of the historic Black Liberation struggle. He was born Donald Weems in 1946 in the predominately Black community of Lakeland in Eastern Shore, Maryland and was inspired by the powerful Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge (MD) movement in his youth.
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U.S. COVID response: War and profiteering remains the priority
The death toll in the U.S. due to COVID-19 has crossed 1 million. The richest country in the world has stumbled in controlling the pandemic and the poorest have suffered the most.
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NYPD and far-Right forces collude in physical assault on a socialist and anti-racist space
Since our founding in 2018, our space, The People’s Forum (TPF) has been the target of multiple attacks by the far-right on both social media and in our location. We have managed to defend our space which operates on values and principles of social justice and people power.
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Marcos Jr. Presidency: A long view
For three decades, contemporary public discourse on the Philippines has been marked by reference to a period called the “post-Marcos era.” Weeks after a high-stakes national election, that widely-accepted historical marker is suddenly obsolete.
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Crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism provokes a popular uprising
Since early April, Sri Lanka has been engulfed by a wave of mass protests demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Thousands of workers and students have mobilised in the most significant mass movement in 30 years.
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Africa, the collateral victim of a distant conflict: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2022)
Debt hangs over the African continent like a wake of vultures. Most African countries have interest bills that are much higher than their national revenues, with budgets managed through austerity and driven by deep cuts in government employment as well as the education and health care sectors.
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Cuba’s non-alignment: A foreign policy of peace and socialism
In Cuba, ‘non-alignment’ has never meant being neutral, and has always meant being opposed to attempts to divide humanity, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
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Empire solves Ukraine’s Nazi problem with a logo change
“The Azov Battalion has removed a neo-Nazi symbol from its insignia that has helped perpetuate Russian propaganda about Ukraine being in the grip of far-right nationalism,” The Times informs us.
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Mali ejects the French military
In the first two weeks of May 2022, the Malian military government ejected the French military and withdrew from the French political project, G5 Sahel. Deep resentment spread across Mali because of the civilian casualties from French military attacks and because of the French government’s arrogant attitude towards the Malian government.
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The U.S. baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
The baby formula crisis that is threatening the lives of infants across the U.S. deepened this week as the out-of-stock rate for baby formula on store shelves surged to 70 percent for the week ending May 22. The shortage rate during the previous week was 45 percent, according to the retail tracking firm Datasembly.
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Eight years ago in Odessa
Eight years ago in Odessa, the neofascist element in Ukrainian politics, then led by Dmitro Yarosh’s Right Sector, burned to death, shot, and otherwise killed at least some 45 anti-Maidan regime picketers inside the Trade Union Building.
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Mark Esper’s tell-some reveals U.S. plans for war and terror against Venezuela
While barely covered in Western media, Esper’s confessions have caused a storm of commotion in the South American nation. However, Diego Sequera, a Caracas-based investigative journalist, told MintPress that few were taken aback by the news.
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On African Liberation Day Biden’s troop deployment to Somalia confirms Africa is not free
The Biden Administration’s recent decision to return U.S. troops to Somalia represents another effort on the part of the U.S. to deny agency and independence to African people. On the 59th commemoration of African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace expresses its unequivocal opposition to this redeployment.
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Retired U.S. general calls for “coalition of the willing” for naval conflict with Russia
This massive escalation by the U.S. and NATO is being billed as a “coalition of the willing,” echoing the words used by the Bush administration to describe the 2003 invasion of Iraq.