Mike Pompeo, in a press conference, accused Iran of engineering the attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman. However, he cited unnamed intelligence reports and other vague references in support of his claim.
Subjects Archives: Strategy
Global inequality in a time of climate emergency
Our worlds richest have a great deal of money. They also have the power to decide whether our civilization sinks or swims. So what can we do?
The Unipolar Moment is over
The Russia-China strategic partnership, consolidated last week in Russia, has thrown U.S. elites into Supreme Paranoia mode, which is holding the whole world hostage.
Big lies
Benjamin Carter Hett on what we can learn from Hitler’s rise to power
Finance and growth under neo-liberalism
A neo-liberal capitalist economy therefore does not have the instruments that capitalism earlier had for providing a bulwark against its slipping into recession and stagnation; the question is: does it have any instruments at all?
Students from 1,600 cities just walked out of school to protest climate change. It could be Greta Thunberg’s biggest strike yet
Hundreds of thousands of students around the world walked out of their schools and colleges Friday in the latest in a series of strikes urging action to address the climate crisis. According to event organizers Fridays for Future, over 1664 cities across 125 countries registered strike actions, with more expected to report turnouts in the […]
Scientists against the machine
Jane Shallice examines the history of radical research at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science.
The plot to kill Venezuela
Vijay Prashad looks at the purpose and impact of sanctions against Venezuela.
Ellen & Rachel Meeropol and Boots Riley on art and resistance
Ellen Meeropol is the author of two novels about law, justice, and government surveillance. Her most recent book, “On Hurricane Island,” explores a fictional secret domestic detention camp for citizens.
Media stenography turns beheaded Saudi protesters into ‘terrorism’
All three outlets also added gratuitous details about the attack in Sri Lanka and/or other ISIS-related attacks–attacks that there’s no suggestion any of the defendants were connected to. In fact, most of these defendants were arrested before ISIS existed. And a majority of those killed, being Shiites, would be viewed by ISIS as heretics.
Warnings of ‘Gulf of Tonkin 2.0’ as Trump officials blame Iran for oil tanker attacks
It’s obvious that Bolton and Pompeo are trying to create a Gulf of Tonkin incident with Iran.
Trump continues Obama’s war on whistleblowers, arrests another alleged Intercept source
This outrageous explosion of watchlisting — of monitoring people and racking and stacking them on lists, assigning them numbers, assigning them ‘baseball cards,’ assigning them death sentences without notice, on a worldwide battlefield — it was, from the very first instance, wrong.
Seven theses on the Capitalist Democratic State
What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted? This question has bedevilled the left for generations. On the one hand, a social democratic conception of the state as a neutral institution that needs to be occupied and captured by bureaucrats with the right ideas has lead to experiments in socialist governance […]
It’s only a coup if the U.S. Government says so
Media side with Trump cronies rather than common sense in labeling coup a ‘protest’.
Guaidó’s botched coup–what does it mean and what’s next?
Jorge Martin looks at some of the reasons why the April 30 attempted coup failed, as well as examining Guaido’s claim that he controls the military.
‘Unions must provide political education or labor will find itself more powerless than ever before’—Timir Basu on labor in India
The phenomenal growth of the services sector has created a new generation of employees. For these workers, May Day has very little meaning—what they fail to grasp is that they cannot protect their future without knowing their past.
If war is an industry, how can there be peace in a capitalist World?
On 26 April 1937, twelve bombers of the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria flew low over the Basque country of Spain in the midst of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). They tore down over the small town of Guernica, where they let loose their fiery arsenal. Almost two thousand people died in […]
Ecosocialism: For a fighting ecological trade-unionism
How can we reconcile social struggle and environmental struggle? This question poses problems for trade unionists.
Defending Venezuela: Two Approaches
The law of diminishing returns does not have to operate in the field of international solidarity.
Is there any way out of the U.S. student debt crisis?
By working three jobs while in college and with some financial assistance from her mother, Karen Hawkins managed to pay off her undergraduate loans of US$12,000 eight years after completing her bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
