Keep Your LAWS Off My Planet
The continued construction and deployment of killer robots is not inevitable. Indeed, a majority of the world would like to see them prohibited, including U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Ecocide in the Pacific
What we have heard about chemical waste dumping is only the tip of the iceberg of the amounts of wastes already buried or dumped into rivers, lakes, seas and oceans in violation of the law or with the consent of local and national authorities.
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U.S. Reminds India it’s Showtime
The Modi government is going to come under immense pressure in the coming days to move into the Western camp on the burning issues of Ukraine and NATO’s further expansion, which would “change the world,” as President Biden framed the paradigm in stark historical terms last week.
Wikileaks’ Invaluable Contributions to Journalism and People’s Movements
What crime could the journalist Assange have committed that would warrant confinement for the past nearly 10 years? His organization Wikileaks published millions of leaked documents that pointed to gross violations of human rights during the U.S.’ numerous wars abroad.
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The United States of Hypocrisy: Revisiting the Monroe Doctrine
In refusing to acknowledge Russia’s concerns about U.S. and Western intervention on its borders, the Biden administration is engaging in hypocrisy. Lying to others is part of the political game, but the United States is lying to itself in denying that it committed to limit NATO’s role in East Europe.
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US, Europe and Covid – Three Articles
Europe’s Governments Go All In for “Herd Immunity”; Vastly Unequal US has World’s Highest Covid Death Toll – It’s No Coincidence; End of COVID-19 Hospital Death Reporting Is “Incomprehensible,” Says US Health Official.
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Radical Land Reform in Venezuela: A Conversation with Juan Carlos Loyo
Chávez’s agriculture minister talks about the revolutionary changes in land tenure that took place under the former president.
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Solidarity Forged from Slave Chains
When studying history, we must always remember that it is the victors that write history. It is the duty, therefore, of every socialist to tell it like it was, and is, at every opportunity. In the battle of ideas that we wage against the ruling class, we must not concede them one inch in interpreting the past.
Capitalism | COVID19 | Online Blog | USA | World Economy
Why Wouldn’t Biden Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier?
The 77-year-old Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years. His freedom has been a permanent demand of a movement since the first day of his unfair incarceration. This includes former prosecutor James Reynolds, who has acknowledged that he was part of a rigged trial.
Capitalism | Online Blog | Racism | USA
The Re-Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The veneration of King has not included any significant or serious effort by U.S. policymakers, social commentators, and moral leaders—including Baptist clergy, laity, associations, denominations, and educational institutions—to embrace the “radical revolution of values” King had called for.