Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

A Surprise Assault on Syria, But Can It Last? A Surprise Assault on Syria, But Can It Last?

by Haidar Mustafa, published on Syria Support Movement, November 30, 2024 In his speech announcing Israel’s agreement to a ceasefire with Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a direct threat to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warning him of “playing with fire.” Those words came mere hours before armed terrorist factions from Idlib launched a shock offensive on Syrian army positions[…]

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They Lied About Gaza And They Are Lying About Syria

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Substack, November 30, 2024 Al-Qaeda affiliates with a history of receiving western funding have reactivated in Syria along with Turkish-backed fighters to recapture significant amounts of territory in the war-ravaged nation. It’s hard to say exactly what’s happening in the moment, but I will say it’s mighty convenient how Russia being tied up in Ukraine[…]

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Without Including Blinken and Biden and the Issue of Genocide, International Criminal Court Arrests are a Sham

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 27, 2024 The International Criminal Court finally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, but this action is merely performative. If arrest warrants do not include war criminals like Joe Biden and other U.S. officials, they are ultimately empty attempts to maintain a semblance of legitimacy. After months of procedural stalling, allegations of sexual harassment[…]

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Resistance Grows as West Asia War Widens

by Martha Grevatt, published on Workers World, November 20, 2024 For over a year, the capitalist media has falsely portrayed Israel’s genocidal war against the people of Palestine as a war between Israel and Hamas, the resistance group that launched the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. The Flood was a heroic challenge to apartheid conditions imposed on Palestinians since[…]

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Peru’s Choices Between a New Deep-Water Port and Used Metro Cars

*Featured Image:  “We are building inclusive economic growth,” Biden said. | Source: EFE/Presidency by Vijay Prashad, produced by  Globetrotter,  November 25, 2024 The Imperial Center, once again, embarrasses itself with offers that are insulting to our friends in the Global South. Meanwhile, this is the conservative U.S. supported president who came to office by sidelining and jailing the popular left-leaning[…]

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Exterminate, Expel, Resettle: Israel’s Endgame In Northern Gaza

by Idan Landau (in Palestine), published on Countercurrents, November 3, 2024 Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements. Look at these two photos, which were both taken on Oct. 21, 2024. On the right, we[…]

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Imperialism and the Destabilization of the Alliance of Sahel States

by Abayome Azikiwe, published on Black Agenda Report, November 20, 2024 Since the formation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, during 2023, the governments of France and the United States along with their surrogates have sought to undermine the political and economic objectives of these developing nations. When the military Committee for the Safeguard[…]

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Trump Confronts a New World Order With Old Threats

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, November 14, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump faces an entirely new problem confronting U.S. imperialism. It is unprecedented. A new world is emerging. It is globally recognized that U.S. economic and political power is in an unstoppable downward spiral, having failed in decades of war to turn its fortunes around. Now it is at[…]

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Smash Zionist Israel’s Genocide! End All US Aid! Free Free Palestine!

Statement by Socialist Action US, November 14, 2024 The eyes of the world are riveted on Palestine. After 13 months of a genocidal bombardment and invasion of Gaza, and now Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran and Iraq, the Zionist state has killed at least 50,000 people, two-thirds of whom are women and children, leaving over 100,000 injured, and at least 10,000[…]

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