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UNAC Conference: Power to the People

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 10, 2024 The recent 2024 United National Antiwar Coalition conference brought together an international group of activists from member organizations who mobilize against imperialism, racism, and neo-liberal policies around the world. BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley delivered these closing remarks. Good afternoon and power to the people! Thank you[…]

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8 Years of Brutal & Criminal War Against Yemen All Foreign Troops Out of Yemen Now!

by Azza Rojbi, published on Fire This Time, March 26, 2023 March 26, 2023, marks 8 years since the start of the Saudi-led coalition war on Yemen. The coalition airstrikes have destroyed houses, schools, roads, markets, hospitals, water tanks, sanitation facilities, mosques, and other vital infrastructure in the country. Almost 400,000 people have been killed because of the war. Those[…]

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U.S. Hegemony and It’s Perils

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China spells out what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy. While administrations may change, the imperative to dominate doesn’t. U.S. desperate decisions create great dangers around the world. US Hegemony and Its Perils February 2023 Contents Introduction I. Political Hegemony—Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony—Wanton Use of Force III. Economic Hegemony—Looting[…]

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Biden Lies at the United Nations

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, September 28, 2022 U.S. presidents routinely violate international law and the United Nations Charter. Yet every year they appear before that body and proclaim American innocence. It takes a special kind of hubris for a president of the United States to speak at the United Nations, the place where international law is[…]

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World’s Largest Imperial Power Sponsors Calls for Russia to ‘Decolonize’

by Daniel Kovalik, published on Orinoco Tribune, July 2, 2022 I’m a little late with this, but U.S. hypocrisy is palpable and this clarification is notable.  [jb] On June 23, 2022, an organization funded by the US Congress, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe – also known as the Helsinki Commission – held a virtual conference calling for the “decolonizing of[…]

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NATO, the Left, and the Path to Peace

by Alan Freeman, published on The Valdai Discussion Club,  July 4, 2022 If anyone tries to justify a monstrous and unnecessary human sacrifice on the grounds that it’s for the best, then they are measuring ‘good’ in dollars instead of bodies, and they’re not part of the left, because the left stands for humans, not property, Valdai Club expert Alan[…]

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Biden’s Summit of Hypocrisy, Not Democracy

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 21, 2021 With great publicity, President Joe Biden called a grand, international Summit on Democracy for Dec 9-10. This gathering, held on Zoom, was hardly more than a Washington D.C., webinar with a few hundred well-chosen invitees and a well-controlled microphone. Biden invited 111 countries. He snubbed another 81 countries, representing more[…]

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Propaganda War Against China Aims to Expand U.S. Hegemony and Eradicate Socialism

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, October 13, 2021 Anti-China propaganda is intended to indoctrinate Americans with fear and hatred and gain support for war against that country and against socialism itself. This is an edited version of remarks given by the author at the Friends of Socialist China’s webinar entitled, Propaganda War Against China, held on October[…]

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Imperialism and Immigration: The Elephant in the Room

Photo:2018/11/23 Ten days old Asylum Seekers arrives in Tijuana, Mexico ~Daniel Arauz by Alison Bodine, Fire This Time, November, 2018 At the beginning of October 2018 an estimated 4,000-7,000 people, the majority from the Central American country of Honduras, set off on a march North from San Pedro Sula, Honduras in search of somewhere to be safe. For some, their[…]

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