Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Scott Ritter Debunks Israeli Lies About the Hamas Military Raid on October 7

by Scott Ritter, published on Socialist Action, December 4, 2023 There is a truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world today—you can’t solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the argument is quite simple—any solution which has nothing to do[…]

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Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 13, 2023 We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence[…]

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The Palestinian Youth Movement in a Time of War

by Susie Day, published on Socialist Action, October 30, 2023 – An Interview with Kaleem Hawla Kaleem Hawa [photo above] is a young Palestinian writer who has contributed eloquent pieces on art and film to such publications as The New York Review of Books and Art forum. But he has no time for this now. He and his comrades in the Palestinian Youth Movement[…]

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Chicago and World-wide Opposition to the U.S. Government-backed Israeli Genocidal Attacks on Palestinians

Statement from Chicago Antiwar Coalition, October 20, 2023 The large mass rallies and marches in Chicago against the U.S. government-backed Israeli genocidal attacks on Palestinians continue, with another to be held Saturday at 1 beginning at Michigan and Ida B. Wells Drive. Yesterday a group from the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and supporters, including from Jewish Voice for Peace, sat[…]

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Breaking News! Some on the Left Have Benefactors…

by Greg Godel, published on ZZ’s Blog, August 14, 2023 In June, I commented on a scurrilous article originally appearing in The Daily Beast and inexplicably reposted on the Portside website. Entitled, U.S Tech Mogul Bankrolls Pro-Russia, Pro-China News Network, the article accused several left groups of having not only received money from a benefactor sympathetic to the People’s Republic[…]

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New York Federal Judge Orders “Compassionate Release” of 3 of the Newburgh Four Convicted in FBI Entrapment Scheme

by Philip Guelpa and Sandy English, published on WSWS, August 3, 2023 Three victims of a notorious Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)-orchestrated entrapment scheme targeting Muslims have been given compassionate release from prison on the orders of Judge Colleen McMahon of the United States District Court in Manhattan after more than a decade in prison. The three—Onta Williams, Laguerre Payen[…]

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Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government To Conceal Source of Syria’s Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis

by Jeremey Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, June 30, 2023 Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and incredibly brazen theft by U.S. forces of 66,000 barrels of Syrian oil per day (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age. Following a devastating earthquake in February[…]

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Corporate Media Warn of Ukraine Nazis Ties

Hidden History of US-backed Fascist-led Coup By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, June 23, 2023 Two glaring New York Times headlines, dated June 5 and updated June 7, 2023 roiled the liberal establishment that to date had banned repeated accounts of the prominent role of Nazis forces in Ukraine’s government and armed forces. The first was titled, “Nazi Symbols[…]

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John Pilger on the Coming War. Speak Up, Now

By John Pilger, May 01, 2023 In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to[…]

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China, COVID Origins and War Propaganda

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 15, 2023 A human cause of covid-19 is possible, but anti-China rhetoric is war propaganda, not scientific evidence.   “I was the first governor to take action to ban Tik Tok here in our state and we saw over two dozen different states take action and congress after that. So we’re thankful[…]

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