Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

A Canadian Left View on Cuba’s July 26 Moncada

by Arnold August, published on The Canada Files, July 26, 2023 In 1953, when virtually all the progressive and revolutionary forces in Cuba offered no viable solution to oppose the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship, Fidel Castro and his comrades did indeed work out a path. It was a route characterized by game-changing statements coupled with exceptionally courageous deeds, out of which[…]

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Nicaragua Celebrates its Revolution While the US Plans New Sanctions Against It

by Roger Harris, published on Internationalist 360°, July 27, 2023 “We are fighting against the Yankee enemy of humanity,” explained Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo, setting the tone of the 44th anniversary celebration of their revolution. Later, her husband Daniel Ortega, the country’s president, elaborated in his hour and a half address: “When we use the term Yankee we mean[…]

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Organized crime in Vilnius

by Editor @ Workers World, published July 20, 2023 To evaluate the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, this July it helps to observe it in the framework of what this military alliance’s meeting really is: an international gathering of the heads of criminal gangs and some local stooges. If that argument seems to stretch reality, consider these points: The major[…]

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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[…]

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“A Timely Call for Peace in Ukraine by U.S. National Security Experts”

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, May 16, 2023 Most of those who signed have been in the antiwar camp since the beginning of the Iraq war, but not the anti-imperialism camp.  It is easy to end the Ukraine war; it is merely necessary to stop providing weapons to Ukraine.  The Russians won’t massacre an unarmed force.  They[…]

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The War in Ukraine and How Africa Surprised the West

by Ted Snyder, published on Antiwar.com, April 3, 2023 On March 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow. The meeting, at which the two leaders “reaffirm[ed] the special nature of the Russia-China partnership” may be a crucial moment in the emergence of the new multipolar world that is challenging US hegemony. But while the[…]

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Dr. Strangelove is No Longer Satire

by Dee Knight, published on CovertAction Magazine, March 1, 2023 Expansion of U.S. weapons supplies to Ukraine makes nuclear war more conceivable “We are fighting a war against Russia,” German Foreign Minister Putin at Stalingrad Memorial on 80th anniversary. [Source: pbs.org] told the Council of Europe on January 24. The next day German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe[…]

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Capitalism in Black and Blue

by John Parker, published on Black Agenda Report, February 8, 2023 Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism. There are two very frightening realities faced by the capitalist ruling class – their smaller numbers in relation to the majority, and their inability to derive profit without exploited human labor. Since they are the sole owners of the means[…]

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Hoisted on His Own Petard: Biden’s Hidden Classified Documents Set to Expose U.S. Instigation of 2014 Ukraine Coup

by Jeff Mackler, January 14, 2023 The image above shows Biden testifying in Ukraine, ostensibly about democracy and justice.  But he is here at this time to instigate the removal of a chief justice who was investigating the company his son, Hunter was employed by.  [jb] Introduction As I write, four days after it was revealed that classified documents had[…]

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