Above Photo: PRIMICIAS. U.S. liberals are the worst perpetrators of Russophobic behavior. They are most likely to follow the dictates of corporate media and the democratic party and proudly take part in discriminatory acts. But foolish bans of anything Russian are just the most visible indication that war propaganda is at the root of the hysteria. The…
Above Photo: Zelensky in his May 2019 inaugural address. (President.gov.ua) In 2019, Zelensky Was Elected On An Overwhelming Mandate To Make Peace With Russia. As Stephen F. Cohen Warned That Year, The US Chose To Side With Ukraine’s Far-Right And Fuel War. On a warm October day in 2019, the eminent Russia studies professor Stephen F. Cohen and I…
Above Photo: Hundreds of Mexicans marched from the Zócalo to the Chamber of Deputies in support of the electrical reform in Mexico City on April 12. (Pablo Ramos / La Jornada) The electricity reform promoted by president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seeks to nationalize Mexico’s energy industry by rolling back the process that opened it up…
Above Photo: Countries sanctioned in some form by the US (as of 2020). The U.S. doesn’t do diplomacy. Every country has its own interests. But the U.S. and its pricks in the State Department insist that its interests must have priority over all others. Any country that disagrees with that will be called out on this or that issue or will even get sanctioned…
When it came to the Ukraine conflict, Professor Michael J. Brenner did what he’s done his whole life: question American foreign policy. This time the backlash was vitriolic. As the death toll in Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine continues to rise, there have only been a handful of Westerners publicly questioning NATO and the West’s role in…
Above Photo: FelixMittermeier / Pixabay. Democratic Public Ownership combines solidarity economy principles around democratic governance, equity, subsidiarity, and sustainability with the benefits of collective ownership in its widest, most holistic sense. Rather than ignore the world’s existing public enterprises and services, we should leverage…
Above Photo: Luigi Morris Luxury building workers and doormen from at least 3,000 buildings in New York City rallied on Wednesday and authorized a strike if they do not reach a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement. Thousands of porters, doorpersons, superintendents, concierges, and handypersons with SEIU Local 32BJ gathered on Park Avenue in…
Above Photo: A child holds up a sign saying, “My future is in your hands” during a climate demonstration in Los Angeles., (Ronen Tivony / SOPA Images/Lightrocket // The New Republic). Most Schoolchildren Get Only An Hour Or Two Of Climate Education Per Year. It’s Up To Their Parents To Teach Them Optimism And Action In The Face Of A Daunting Crisis…
Above Photo: Leaked documents shared with DeSmog point to the wood pellet industry’s efforts to water down EU sustainability criteria. (Pixabay). Leaked documents show UK power plant Drax is at the heart of lobbying efforts to dilute EU biodiversity rules that could limit its supply of wood. A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft…
Above Photo: One to the banners police placed by hotel were Joe Iosbaker was staying, accusing him of interfering in the affairs of the Philippines and called him a “Communist Terrorist Ally.” (Fight Back! News/Staff). Chicago, Illinois – I just returned from eight days in Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines, where the capital, Manila…
Above photo: A Different Kind of “Service Candidate” Runs for Senate. In recent years, both major parties in the U.S. have been recruiting former members of the military, the foreign service, or national security agencies to run for Congress. Almost all of these so-called “service candidates” are either conservative Republicans or corporate…
Above photo: Ann Wright. Don’t Get Your Hopes Up! On March 7, 2022 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the defueling and closure of the 80-year-old leaking 250 million gallon jet fuel tanks at Red Hill on the island of O’ahu, Hawai’i. The order came 95 days after a catastrophic 19,000-gallon leak of jet fuel into one of the drinking…
Above Photo: Ever Fonseca (Cuba), Homenaje a la paz (‘Homage to Peace’), 1970. While the United States began its illegal war against Iraq in 2003, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro spoke in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ‘Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples’, he said, ‘nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities … Our country’s…
Above Photo: Colombian Vice Presidential Candidate Francia Marquez. Twitter @FranciaMarquezM. Francia Marquez is Colombia’s vice presidential candidate, the first Black national candidate in that country. Her triumph is not just personal, but the result of a strong mass movement. I am excited and moved by the process that has been unleashed after…
Above Photo: An Israeli security forces member aims at Palestinian worshippers during the violent raid in al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday morning 15 April 2022 (Reuters) At least 152 Palestinians wounded as Israeli forces fire rubber-coated steel bullets, teargas and stun grenades during dawn assault. BREAKING: Israeli forces break into Al Aqsa mosque this…
Above Photo: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in Moscow with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022 In this episode of the Multipolarista podcast, Benjamin Norton is joined by Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad to discuss how Pakistan’s elected Prime Minister Imran Khan was overthrown in a US-backed coup aimed at reversing…
Above Photo: An MST march. (Facebook/Gustavo Marinho) Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted. Ever since it launched its first audacious land occupations in the mid-1980s, in which groups of impoverished farmers took over unused estates in Southern Brazil and turned…
Above Photo: An MST march. Facebook/Gustavo Marinho. Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted. Ever since it launched its first audacious land occupations in the mid-1980s, in which groups of impoverished farmers took over unused estates in Southern Brazil and turned…
Above Photo: Pedro Carmona swearing in as president following the April 2002 coup. On April 11, 2002, Venezuela’s democratically elected government, headed by Hugo Chávez Frías, was ousted in a military coup d’etat. Then, dramatically, two days later, the coup was overturned by a mass mobilization of Venezuelans. They demanded the restoration…
Above Photo: Here comes round two: Amazon’s battalion of unscrupulous union-busters has descended on the Staten Island sorting facility where workers will begin voting April 25 on whether to unionize. “It’s a war in there,” said Amazon Labor Union Treasurer Madeline Wesley. (Amazon Labor Union). ‘They’re Playing Really Dirty’. The company…
Above Photo: Scientists glued their hands to the U.K. Department for Business, Energy, & Industrial Strategy in London on April 13, 2022. (Photo: Scientists for XR/Twitter) “The government’s insane, and I don’t know what else to do, other than to do this, and to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up,” said ecologist Aaron…
Above photo: Russia-Ukraine war: The Russian delegation said both sides have identified certain points from which they can predict general positions. AP. On his first foreign visit to Belarus on Tuesday since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin explained during a joint press conference with his Belarusian counterpart…
Above photo: From SaveMIWater.org. When Governor Whitmer signed the bipartisan Building Michigan Together Plan, she chose to allow a $50 million subsidy to Michigan Potash Company to remain in the bill. MCWC and other concerned groups and citizens learned about this gift to a poorly conceived start-up project only days before the bill came out of the…
Above Photo: The Google logo seen on a cellphone with a background saying ‘censored’. (Guillaume Payen / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Preventing Populations From Asking Who Benefits From A Protracted Proxy War, And Who Pays The Price, Is Paramount. A Closed Propaganda System Achieves That. If one wishes to be exposed to news, information…
Above Photo: Franck / Unsplash. A case study in how allegedly neutral analysts hired by publications or social media can effectively cancel good-faith questions and opinions because they challenge dominant narratives. Opinion columnists are familiar with the traditional role of the fact checker. Prior to publication, an editor checks accuracy of quotes…
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