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Fake news in Kiev heralds cruel April
An indignant Moscow has angrily demanded a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday over the allegations of atrocities by Russian troops in areas around Kiev through the past month.
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Sanctions and the World Economic Order: a conversation with Prabhat Patnaik
A distinguished Marxist economist reflects on the impact of imperialist blockade mechanisms.
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‘Don’t say gay’: anti-equality legislation spreading state by state in the US
Florida’s anti-LGBTQ bill and Texas’s ban on abortion after six weeks shows that political battles at state level are more important than ever.
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History rounds off skeletons to zero: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2022)
On 16 March 2022, as Russia’s war on Ukraine entered its second month, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev warned his people that ‘uncertainty and turbulence in the world markets are growing, and production and trade chains are collapsing’.
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Russia promises reduced military activity, as Ukraine proposes ‘neutral’ status at talks
After the three-hour meeting in Turkey, Russia said it has decided to drastically cut back its military activity near Kiev in order for peace talks to progress. According to TASS, top Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said the talks were “constructive.”
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Hands off trans youth!
Trans people, and especially youth, are under attack in state capitols across the U.S. And the most egregious attack so far has come in a state that is a stronghold of the neofascist takeover of the Republican Party – Texas.
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“The policy of the USA has always been to prevent Germany and Russia from cooperating more closely”
Historical, political and economic contexts of the war in Ukraine.
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Re-visiting Russiagate in light of the Ukraine war
A lot of anti-empire commentary is rightly going into criticizing how the Obama administration paved the way to this conflict in Ukraine with its role in the 2014 coup and support for Kyiv’s war against Donbass separatists.
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Mariupol and Donetsk: a tale of two cities
In December 2014, a young Russian communist named Andrey Sokolov was visiting the newly formed Donetsk People’s Republic. He went to meet a friend who’d been driven into exile from Ukraine after the U.S.-backed far-right coup d’etat in Kiev earlier that year.
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UN Special Rapporteur says Israel is committing ‘pitiless’ apartheid in new report
“With the eyes of the international community wide open, Israel has imposed upon Palestine an apartheid reality in a post-apartheid world, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Michael Lynk writes in a new report.
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Ukraine is brutally repressing the left, criminalizing socialist parties, imprisoning activists
Ukraine’s Western-backed government has criminalized socialist political parties, while its Nazi-infiltrated intelligence agencies are hunting down leftists, accusing them of being too soft on Russia. This comes after Kiev gave state honors to WWII-era Ukrainian fascists who collaborated with Hitler.
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In the World, there are many traps, and it is necessary to shatter them: The Twelfth Newsletter (2022)
On 31 March 1964, the Brazilian military initiated a coup d’état against the democratically-elected progressive government of President João Goulart.
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U.S. Congress admits Nazi role in Ukraine
When even the hawkish House of Representatives can’t stomach these Nazi storm troopers who have served as Kiev’s tip of the spear against the ethnic Russian population of eastern Ukraine, what does that say about the honesty and integrity of the New York Times when it finds these same Nazis so admirable?
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The Fukushima taboo
“Coming out” on thyroid cancer from Fukushima is an act of bravery in today’s Japan
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Nineteen years ago today the Bush administration invaded Iraq in one of the worst crimes of the modern era
Numerologists tell you that 19 is 1 + 9 which equals the powerful # 1, or new beginnings. Well, 19 years ago on March 19, coincidentally, my nation orchestrated the most horrific deed since God knows when.
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Civilians evacuate Mariupol and reveal the fighting methods of the Azov regime’s Neo-Nazis
On March 18, 2022, we went to the western part of Marioupol where the fighting between the Russian army, the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) people’s militia and the neo-Nazi Azov regiment is still raging.
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The NYT now admits the Biden laptop – falsely called “Russian Disinformation” – is authentic
The media outlets which spread this lie from ex-CIA officials never retracted their pre-election falsehoods, ones used by Big Tech to censor reporting on the front-runner.
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Sanctions anyone? Imperialist contradiction or the unintended consequence of involuntary decolonization
In support of the white supremacist Ukrainian puppet government, many U.S. and European companies have been withdrawing from doing business in Russia.
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Homicidal drives: U.S. dreams of killing Putin
Wars disturb and delude. The Ukraine conflict is no exception. Misinformation is cantering through press accounts and media dispatches with feverish spread.
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The erasure of Palestine and the JNF
The JNF is a case study of misrepresentations and fabrications to rationalize and justify profound immorality. There is a great deal of critical history documenting that antisemitism is not inevitable, intrinsic, or constant in history.