Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

The United Arab Emirates is Destroying the Biodiversity of a Yemeni Archipelago.

by Mouna Hashem and Martha Mundy, Published on Counterpunch, December 1, 2023 Environmental destruction entails two intertwined processes: climate change and the destruction of biodiversity, which mutually reinforce each other. Both are human-caused. Climate change is not the lead driver of biodiversity loss; it is human overexploitation of natural resources and habitat destruction. Protecting biodiversity protects against climate change. Nowhere is the[…]

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ExxonMobil And a Possible War in South America

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, December 5, 2023 News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Mon. Dec. 4, 2023: On December 3, 2023, a large number of registered voters in Venezuela voted in a referendum over the Essequibo region that is disputed with neighboring Guyana. Nearly all those who voted answered yes to the five questions. These questions asked the Venezuelan people to affirm[…]

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Alex Saab is Free: A victory Over US Imperialist Sanctions

by staff, published on Fight Back! News, December 20, 2023 Miami, FL – Alex Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat, is now free after long negotiations between Venezuela’s government and the U.S. State Department. Saab flew back to Venezuela on Wednesday, December 20 into the waiting arms of his wife, Camilla Fabri Saab. He will be able to hug his children after[…]

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Yemeni Movement’s Solidarity With Palestine

Statement published on Workers World, December 20, 2023 Below is a statement by Ansarallah (called the Houthi movement in the imperialist media) spokesperson, Mohammed Abdul Salam, which was posted on Resistance News Network on Dec. 16.  The accompanying news is that the largest shipping company in the world, the Swiss-Italian MSC, has decided to cease all shipments in the Red[…]

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Top Ten Reasons to Dismiss the COP28 Conference of Polluters 28

by Patrick Bond and Desmond D’Sa, published on Socialist Action, December 18, 2023 The most publicized sentence from the final COP28 [Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change] document – the first ‘Global Stocktake’ (GST), presided over by United Arab Emirates oil man Sultan Al-Jaber and co-managed by South Africa’s environment minister Barbara Creecy – is this[…]

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Ret. Col. Ann Wright Unmasks the Truth in Arms Transfer Debate

by Ann Wright, published on Countercurrents, December 13, 2023 In a heated session at the United Nations Security Council, diplomats engaged in a vigorous debate over the provision of arms to Ukraine amid the protracted war with Russia. The eleventh meeting on this pressing issue since Russia invaded in February of 2022 drew sharp criticisms from multiple speakers, who accused[…]

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Largest Union Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza

by Rose Lemlich, published on Left Voice, December 2, 2023 The UAW International union has joined calls for a ceasefire and is exploring how to divest from Israel. This is a step which should inspire union activists to take up the fight to bring their union into the fight against Israel’s attack on Gaza and the struggle against imperialism. At[…]

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When Genocide is No Longer Genocide

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 13, 2023 Some of Israel’s defenders want to do away with the concept of genocide in hopes of washing away its war crimes. Any redefinition would allow the U.S. to disappear the many genocides it has committed domestically and internationally. “We maintain, therefore, that the oppressed Negro citizens of the United[…]

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Musings from the Margins #4: Black Lackeys, White Social Democrats, Human Rights and Empire’s Decline

Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on Black Misleadership, faux Human Rights, the Decline of the Empire, White Social Democrats and other issues. What makes the white supremacy so incredibly dangerous is what I call the psychopathology of white supremacy. It is a racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with[…]

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