Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

BRICS Is Mounting a Challenge to the US-Led World Order — But for Whom?

by C.J. Polychroniou, published on Truthout, October 25, 2024\ The recently concluded 2024 BRICS (an acronym for the combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kazan and attended by scores of Global South leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa[…]

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The Global South, the BRICS+ Summit and Palestine

by Betsey Piette, published on Workers World, October 30, 2024 The potential power of a united Global South was on full display at the United Nations in March 2022. Representatives of many countries that had experienced imperialist aggression at the hands of the U.S., France, Britain and other NATO members collectively denounced U.S. sanctions as acts of war, calling NATO[…]

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From Despair to Revolution: The Bronx’s Path to Defeating Addiction

by the Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, October 18, 2024 The Bronx Anti-War Coalition hosted a film screening on Oct. 11 of the documentary “Dope is Death” as part of our guerrilla cinema series. The widely attended event featured a Q&A session with former Young Lord and acupuncturist Walter Bosque, where community members engaged in a lively discussion[…]

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Trump Rally, Washington Post and Michelle Obama Generate Fake Outrage

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 30, 2024 Liberals love to indulge in performative virtue signaling rather than serious political conviction. Recent events proved that their highest priority is maintaining alliances with the Democratic Party, while dismissing any inconvenient truths that point out their hypocrisy. Nothing reveals the corrupt nature of U.S. politics like a presidential election.[…]

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Please End the Extermination Campaign

by Mazin Qumsiyeh, published by Defend Democracy Press, October 23, 2024 Dear friends and colleagues The situation in North Gaza is beyond the word catastrophic:horror, massacres, extermination. People are shot on site as they even try to evacuate injured people, medical personnel are targeted, hospitals are targeted. No food or water allowed. Israel simply rejected UN and humanitarian organization access.[…]

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U.S. Shooting Itself in the Foot With Info Warfare in Africa

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 25, 2024 US efforts to control information in Africa will ultimately backfire, says African journalist, author, and filmmaker David Hundeyin. On September 13, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference in which he accused the Russian media outlet RT of covertly disseminating Kremlin-produced content and messaging, not only in[…]

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“Lesser Evilism“ Rises to Crescendo Pitch as “Liberal-Left” Back Genocide Kamala Harris

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 28, 2024 With the polls deadlocked at 48-48 less than two weeks before the US presidential elections, the billionaire ruling rich frantically maneuver to capture a few more votes to swing the result in favor of their chosen warmongering, capitalist, anti-working class, environmentally catastrophic corporate-kept candidates. The electoral choice presented to an[…]

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Why Brazil Opposes Venezuela’s Entry Into BRICS

by Misión Verdad Orinoco Tribune, published on Popular Resistance, October 24, 2024 Looks like Lula Inácio da Silva’s “Get Out of Jail Free” card was not free, after all.  Too bad for Venezuela ….and Brazil. On Monday, it was reported that Brazil would oppose Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS group. The 16th Summit of the BRICS organization is taking place[…]

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Support the Students Backing Palestine!

by Workers World Party, posted on Workers World, October 15, 2024 Editor’s note: The header image is from a later date at which time Brown University suspended the pro-Palestine group that continued to protest. At about eight weeks into the new semester on U.S. campuses, the following has become clear: Students who started political activity and struggle last year opposing[…]

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A No Win Dilemma for U.S. Peace Voters

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, October 31, 2024 On October 24th, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu that the war is over, because it’s basically our proxy war. We control the armaments, the funding, the diplomatic cover, the intelligence, etc., so we can end[…]

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