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Burkina Faso’s president Traoré delivers anti-imperialist speech at Russia–Africa summit
On the second day of the Russia–Africa summit, the president of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, delivered an anti-imperialist address and employed slogans identified with the Cuban Revolution.
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The U.S. plot to finalize the theft of Venezuela’s oil
The U.S. has used its influence to steal another country’s oil revenues. Venezuela is in the crosshairs because it dares to be socialist in the hemisphere the U.S. claims as it’s “backyard.”
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Anxious about the climate? there’s a solution
Mental health challenges are rising alongside temperatures. Research suggests that taking action can help.
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The problem with “Universal Basic Income”
MANY economists have been advocating a universal basic income for India, an idea that was mooted even in the official Economic Survey for 2016-17.
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There are enough resources in the World to fulfill human needs, but not enough resources to satisfy capitalist greed: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2023)
Neither the BRICS project nor China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are military threats; both are essentially South-South commercial developments (along the grain of the agenda of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation).
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DC Uniparty kills House resolutions to end U.S. emergency powers in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen
In a massive show of support for limitless executive power, Congress rejected legislation that would have terminated national emergency powers allowing Washington to wage war across the Middle East. These same emergency powers give the president the power to lift bans on testing biological weapons on U.S. citizens.
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The Nicaraguan Coup Attempt: How Peace Was Restored and What Has Happened Since
This final article, covering the period from mid-July to the present day, shows how the coup was defeated and what happened in the aftermath.
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Burkina Faso’s new president condemns imperialism, quotes Che Guevara, allies with Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba
Burkina Faso’s new President Ibrahim Traoré has vowed to fight imperialism and neocolonialism. Pledging a “refoundation of the nation”, invoking revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, and quoting Che Guevara, his government has allied with Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba.
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Government health financing for all, not insurance
To achieve universal health coverage, all people need access to public healthcare. This should be an entitlement for all, regardless of means, requiring adequate long term sustainable financing.
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U.S. long history of waging wars casts doubt about intent to reduce risk of South China Sea miscalculation
During their trips to China, the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reassured Beijing that Washington did not want to contain it economically and that there was “ample room” for engagement with China in trade, investment, and other critical issues, urging closer communication to address disagreements through dialogue.
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Kent councillor suspended from Labour after watching Jeremy Corbyn film
COUNCILLOR in Kent has been suspended from the Labour whip after attending a screening of the film exposing the conspiracy behind the removal of Jeremy Corbyn as the party’s leader.
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The poverty of UN poverty estimates
ON April 3 this year, the minister of state for planning, Rao Inderjeet Singh, said in the Rajya Sabha that the government had no data after 2011-12 for estimating poverty, and therefore had no idea how many people had been lifted out of poverty since then.
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The day Australian sovereignty died
If a date might be found when Australian sovereignty was extinguished by the emissaries of the U.S. imperium, July 29, 2023 will be as good as any.
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Niger is the fourth country in the Sahel to experience an anti-Western coup
The coup in Niger follows coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea. Each of these was led by military officers angered by the presence of French and U.S. troops and by economic crises inflicted on their countries.
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Sven-Eric Liedman – ‘The Game of Contradictions: The Philosophy of Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth Century Science’
Liedman portrays Engels’ alternative picture of science as a ‘non-reductive materialism’ characterised by a deep confidence in the unity of knowledge and by an equally deep resistance to treating any level of reality as totally determined by another. Engels’ account of scientificity—of what shape a legitimate theory can take—was modelled both on Marx’s theory of capitalism and on Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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Could the U.S. realistically use Taiwan to fight a proxy war with China?
Interview with antiwar writer John Walsh.
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Syria: a tale of plunder and resurrection
While the wholesale theft of Syria’s natural resources continues under the watch of illegal U.S. troops, the Russian project of resurrecting ISIS-destroyed Palmyra stands as a stark reminder that ruins can rise again-if Syria’s friends help pave the way.
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In speech on extreme heat, Biden makes no mention of what’s driving it: Fossil fuels
“Real relief won’t come until Biden confronts the culprit of deadly oil and gas,” said one campaigner.
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Russia, Donbass, and the reality of the conflict in Ukraine
The people of the West need to come to grips with–that the government of Ukraine has done great violence against its own people in the Donbass and that the people of the Donbass had every right to choose to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
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Funny how the UFO narrative coincides with the race to weaponize space
If Wednesday’s House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UFOs had happened ten years ago instead of today, it would have shaken the world.