Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Media Organizations From Global South Discuss Solidarity and Standing Up to Sanctions

by Mauro Ramos, published on People’s Dispatch, May 8, 2023 The latest development in the multipolar world is coordination and cooperation between the Global South, East and West.  [jb] At an event in Shanghai, representatives of media organizations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America highlighted the need for learning from and working with each other and building infrastructure to resist[…]

Read more

State Repression Targets the Stop Cop City Movement

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 7, 2023 Cop City is an effort to ensure that state violence will bring the most draconian methods to bear against Black people. State violence is also being used proactively, in an effort to end opposition to this creation of Atlanta’s white ruling class and their errand boys and girls who[…]

Read more

U.S. Post 9/11 Wars Caused 4.5 Million Deaths, Displaced 38-60 Million People, Study Shows

by Ben Norton, published on Black Agenda Report, May 24, 2023 Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya and Somalia following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University. Originally published in Geopolitical Economy . The[…]

Read more

G7 in Hiroshima: a War Summit

by Jorge Cadima, published on Workers World, May 29, 2023 Living in the illusion of past domination, the seven countries known as the G7 insist on trying to convey the idea that they are the seven largest economies in the world. But the reality is not what it used to be. According to the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook[…]

Read more

Biden Calls Cuba “Terrorist” While The People Demand An End to U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba

By Calla Mairead Walsh, published on Socialist Action,  May 29, 2023 When the Devil rules, no good work goes unpunished.   [jb] Thousands of Cubans gather to celebrate the country’s National Rebellion Day, a yearly commemoration of the Cuban revolution. While Biden doubles down on Cuba’s designation as a so-called “State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US people are increasingly calling for[…]

Read more

When Will US Join Global Call to End Ukraine War?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies, May 30, 2023 This article came in while I was offline as a response to the G7 meeting in Hiroshima.  However there are people at a conference in Vienna right now meeting to discuss ways and means to end the war in Ukraine. [jb] When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia[…]

Read more