How Tipu Sultan and Haidar Ali Inspired America’s Founding Fathers in Their Quest for Freedom
While fighting for independence, the fledgling United States looked far away to the Kingdom of Mysore for inspiration.
Remembering A People’s War Against Imperialism and Fascism
September 3, 2020 marks 75 years since the Japanese army formally surrendered to China. More than 25 million Chinese civilians and soldiers perished in their struggle against imperialism and fascism, accounting for a full one-third of global fatalities during the Second World War.
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A 70-Year War on ‘Propaganda’ Built by the CIA
Propaganda is vital in times of war because it is absolutely imperative that the people, who often need to make the greatest sacrifices and suffer the most, believe that such a war is justified; and that the “enemy” is sub-human.
Wealth Inequality Rising in the World – As Marx had Foreseen Would Happen in Capitalism
A very small elite owns the means of production and finance and that is how they usurp the lion’s share and more of the wealth and income.
A “New” Democracy?
We are witnessing the transformation of the regime of democracy, that had brought us the promise of liberté, egalité, fraternité political, social and economic, to its very opposite: the highest concentration of economic, political and therefore social powers ever in history.
Is Big Pharma More Interested in Profiteering Than Protecting Us From Coronavirus?
Big business and Big Pharma dominate our government and public health takes a back seat to the need for private profit.
‘Collateral Murder’: Post Script
Before he killed himself, 30-year-old Iraq veteran Danny Holmes would often sit in front of his computer screen looking at photographs of the children killed by the US army during the Iraq war.
Allende’s Chile: 50 Years On – Mourning and Celebrating
This 4th September marks 50 years since the electoral victory of Salvador Allende in Chile – bringing panic to the White House. Five decades on, the reverberations of its appeal still resonate very strongly, both in Chile and internationally.
The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange – Three Articles
The extradiction trial of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange is about to resume in London. The US is determined to punish Assange for exposing the cruelty of its war on Iraq. Only a wave of public mobilisation can force the Tory govt to refuse the extradiction of Assange.
U.S.-NATO Hands Off Belarus!
Six years after the USA helped to engineer a right-wing takeover of Ukraine using mass protests, another former Soviet republic — Belarus — is now in the gunsights of Washington and the European Union.