Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Ukraine War protestors: “Negotiations Now!”

by Reginald Johnson, October 25, 2022 MIDDLETOWN, CT — Peace activists took to the streets here Saturday to protest the war in Ukraine and warn people that the conflict threatens to become a nuclear holocaust. Gathering on the corner of Main and Washington, the demonstrators held signs and passed out fliers which said “Prevent Nuclear War” and “Negotiations Now.” “We’ve[…]

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Haiti and the Debt of Independence

by Yves Engler, published on Countercurrents, September 4, 2022 In the vast history of imperialist exploitation few episodes match the depravity of Haiti’s debt of independence. Military blackmail of a small country by a superpower, prioritizing “property rights” over human rights, racial capitalism, a sellout “light skinned” local bourgeoise and the way our past haunts the present are all part[…]

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Ukraine: Wage a Class War Against Imperialist War

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, October 18, 2022 The latest U.S.-NATO-Kiev aggressions in the Ukraine war theater — bombing the bridge to Crimea and the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines — have escalated the fighting, threatening a continental or even a worldwide conflagration. The world’s richest bosses, bankers and billionaires, and their agents in Washington, London, Berlin[…]

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Workers InFrance Stage Nationwide Strike For Higher Wages and 130,000 People March In Paris

by the Countercurrents Collective, published on Countercurrents, October 19, 2022 The Europeans are struggling with the insane response of the EU leadership to the Ukraine War, eagerly sacrificing their welfare to a proxy war in support of U.S. aggression and a deadly proxy war.  [jb] French workers took part in a nationwide strike Tuesday to demand higher wages to keep[…]

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A Roadmap to Escape the West’s Stranglehold

by Pepe Escobar, published on The Cradle, October 6, 2022 Recent discussions question how to frame the coming changes, will there be relief for those suffering austerity and sanctions, is the suffocating grasp of  dollar hegemony coming to an end, and if so, what are the significant global changes that will enable this transformation of the global economy?  Is there[…]

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OPEC’s Body Blow to Biden Presidency

by M.K. Bhadrakrumar, published on the Indian Punchline, October 8, 2022 The Biden Administration is swiftly establishing a narrative that the recent OPEC decision to cut oil production by two million tonnes is a geopolitical “aligning” by Saudi Arabia and Russia. It taps into the Russophobia in the Beltway and deflects attention from the humiliating defeat of President Biden’s personal[…]

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Stop Using Human Tragedies to Instigate “Velvet Revolution” in Iran!

Statement from U.S. Peace Council, October 2, 2022 I visited Iran several times a decade ago.  Women have it pretty good in Iran.  They have about the same ratio of women to men in college as the US (just like us, women do a little better in college and men do a little better in the economy).  Women are free[…]

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Lessons Learnt in Iran

by Hamid Shahrabi, October 3, 2022 Rather than detailing crimes committed by illegitimate sanctions, the purpose of this modest contribution is to draw attention on lessons learnt, with emphasis on how to effectively confront such criminal policy. But before that, considering my Iranian nationality, let us have a look at the case of Iran. Iran Sanctions After the overthrow of[…]

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Sanctions and the New Cold War on China

by Carlos Martinez, August 2022 Background The instinctive attitude of the United States towards the Chinese Revolution was of course one of hostility. In a protracted war between progress and reaction, between the future and the past, the governments of the US and the People’s Republic of China were, and are, are on opposite sides of the barricades. Hence shortly[…]

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Korea/DPRK: Surviving US-UN Sanctions and Military Threats

by Erica Jung, September 30, 2022 Introduction North Koreans live under restrictions, embargoes, and scarcities imposed and enforced by a variety of sanctions from the United States and the United Nations.1 In fact, north Korea is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world, having been subject to sanctions since its foundation in 1950. US sanctions in particular serve[…]

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