How Big Money Controls the Stories the Media Tells
A mere five conglomerates dominate 90% of the media that Americans consume – freedom of the press in America today is as much an economic issue as a political one.
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.
If Humanity Is to have Any Future At All
Foster talks about the US escalating its tension with China conflict, about whether there are any differences between Trump and Biden, and about the worsening environmental crisis.
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.
The NBA Strike: The Most Important Protest in Team Sports Over the Last 50 Years – Three Articles
This week’s work stoppage in professional sports is the most significant moment of athlete activism in a half century not because it “raised awareness”, but because it exercised labor’s most elemental form of political power: the strike.
Hollywood and the Pentagon are Cheating on the American Public
Long have Hollywood and the Pentagon worked together in what has been called a relationship of “mutual exploitation,” producing war agitprop for the masses.
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Trump Losing His Tech War with China – Two Articles
From tariffs to the TikTok ban to slurs about the “kung flu”, Trump has been expressing mounting frustration over China and ramping up attacks on an inexorably rising power on the global stage.
Bernie Sanders’ Speech to the Democratic National Convention
Full transcript of the US Senator’s speech on August 17, 2020.
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United States of America: Socialism for Big Capital and Wild Capitalism for the Poor – Two Articles
Martin Luther King’s characterisation, “The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor”, perfectly describes what is happening in the USA during the pandemic.
The Adani Group’s Destructive Projects – Two Articles
Reports on the Adani group’s projects worldwide show massive illegalities, environmental destruction, and human rights violations. Two articles, on Adani’s Godda plant, and coal mines in the Hasdeo Aranya forests.