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A Public Power victory in New York State
On May 2, New York became the first U.S. state to pass a major Green New Deal policy following four years of organizing by the Public Power NY coalition and allies.
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Spy on your fellow (pro-Palestinian) students to get a scholarship
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) offers scholarships to proponents of the world’s most aggressive European settler colonial outpost. It’s a small part of a broader campaign to harass internationalist activism at Canadian universities.
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Food for Thought: Pueblo a Pueblo Promotes Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part IV)
An innovative form of food distribution has been key for schools and communes.
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Professor Kees van der Pijl: “NATO and the EU will dissolve!”
How can we organise a global resistance to the criminal capitalist system and the devastating imperialism that has ravaged entire countries?
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Resurrecting the concept of the Triad: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2023)
The G7 meeting reveals the gaps between the United States and its allies (Europe and Japan), but these differences of interest and opinion should not be overestimated.
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World Health Assembly: The world should be more like Cuba
The world is still suffering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inflation, supply chain crises, and shortages of medicines and basic goods continue to affect most of the world’s countries, especially those less developed and besieged by the major powers, such as Cuba, but this is not news.
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The twilight of freedom
Craig Murray: “Three British journalists I know personally–Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg–have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation.”
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The U.S. censors Dissenting Voices: On the attacks against the Midwestern Marx Institute
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law… Abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
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Lawmakers attack CUNY law grad for criticizing Israel in commencement speech
Fatima Mohammed’s criticism of Israel, white supremacy, and the NYPD have led to public condemnations from U.S. politicians and pro-Israel groups. Many are calling for the university to be defunded over the speech.
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Colorado River water deal: a bandaid or real progress?
The recent Colorado River water deal reached between the three lower basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada is being celebrated by the corporate media as “historic,” although final approval by the Department of Interior is still pending.
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Most propaganda looks nothing like this
The most common articles of propaganda–and by far the most consequential—are not the glaring, memorable instances that live in infamy among the critically minded.
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Weaponising anti-semitism, bringing down Corbyn
Britain’s mainstream media, its Army and the Israel lobby all combined to ensure Jeremy Corbyn did not become prime minister, a new book argues.
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How “peaceful protests” in Nicaragua became an attempted coup
Five years ago, Nicaragua was subject to a violent insurrection that lasted from April through July, 2018. In the second of four articles, we look at how initial support for the coup relied on widespread use of social media.
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“Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if it Takes Place,” says Noam Chomsky
“Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we’ll go off the precipice together.”
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‘Charging domestic terrorism is intended to make the cost of protesting too high’
CounterSpin interview with Cody Bloomfield on anti-activist terrorist charges.
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Manufactured crisis over U.S. debt ceiling sets stage for bipartisan assault on Social Security and Medicare
All of the social gains made by the working class in the course of more than a century of struggle must be wiped out to pay for the drive by the American ruling class to remove, by force of arms, Russia and China as obstacles to US hegemony, even if it means triggering a nuclear war.
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The Group of Seven should finally be shut down: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2023)
During the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, near where the meeting was held.
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NicaNotes: The experience of Nicaragua in managing the Covid pandemic
Nicaragua, the third poorest country in Latin America, has a population of approximately 6.7 million people but has the most extensive and well-equipped public health system in Central America.
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Biden’s debt ceiling betrayal is a Democratic Party tradition
Joe Biden is continuing the ignoble tradition of colluding with republicans while pretending to fight them. The latest debt limit drama is another betrayal of the people.
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The U.S. continues to lose Middle East power and ‘Tel Aviv’ makes things worse
If the U.S. wishes to navigate its way in a world where it no longer rules, but shares power with China, it must reconnect with reality.