Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Behind Trump and DOGE’s Reckless Destruction Is a Determination to Crush Workers

by Tyler Walicek, published on Truthout, May 17, 2025 The future of collective bargaining and labor rights in the United States is on the table. Even the most alarmed predictions of left-leaning commentators failed to capture the extremity of the onslaught that flooded forth from the second Trump administration in its first few months. Only recently has the real severity[…]

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The Ghost of Jimmy Carter

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 8, 2025 Hagiography is inevitable when presidents and other prominent people die. The unwillingness to ‘speak ill of the dead’ and the propaganda that would have us believe in American exceptionalism must be rejected. Jimmy Carter was always devoted to protecting the interests of the U.S. state. “All US Presidents, Living[…]

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Who Controls Afghanistan’s Sovereign Assets?

Afghanistan Update by Black Alliance for Peace, Solidarity Network, November 18, 2024 Editor’s note: This is not only about Afghanistan’s “Sovereign” Assets.  For the purposes of trade, international banks have to keep a slush fund in dollars in a western bank, since money doesn’t always travel at the same rate, moving money from bank to bank, business to business.   In[…]

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The Fall of the Keystone in the Axis of Resistance

by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, December 16, 2024 For most of the time since its 1946 independence from France, Syria has resisted all attempts to make it a vassal state. It has paid dearly, as a target of subversion, war, occupation and the most onerous economic sanctions in the world, for its anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism, its support for[…]

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As Hunger Crisis Grows, 3 Palestinians Killed in Gaza Bread Stampede

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff We can’t forget Gaza despite the catastrophe in Syria.  The Genocide continues.  ~jb The Gaza civil defense on Friday said as many as 100 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks and massacres in northern Gaza in the past 24 hours. 75 of the victims were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two homes in Beit Lahia,[…]

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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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October 7, The Election and Capitalist Crisis, A Conversation With Ajamu Baraka

by Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, October 8, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report is again in conversation with Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report Editor and Contributor. The US presidential election is just four weeks away, and momentous events are occurring, particularly in Western Asia, where Israel continues its onslaught with[…]

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Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing

TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing is a beautifully written book about poor and homeless people choosing to live and refusing to die. by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 11, 2024 I can’t recommend TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing, by Cheri Honkala and the Poor People’s Army, enough. Most people don’t like to think[…]

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BAP Afghanistan News Update, April 11th, 2024

by the Black Alliance for Peace Afghanistan News Update, April 11, 2024 Although most westerners have forgotten about Afghanistan, the US war on the Afghan people continues.  [jb] Though the start of 2024 may have signaled the beginning of a new year, Afghanistan continues to endure the decades-long denial of its sovereignty by the United States. U.S.-led regime change to[…]

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