(2022-12-13). The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History. scheerpost.com By Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch Author's note: I wrote this piece in May 2013, with a helping hand from the invaluable Nick Turse who came up with the word "terracide." In it, I focused on a planet warming far too quickly, thanks in significant part to the efforts of the giant fossil-fuel companies already profiting from …
(2022-12-13). WorkWeek 12-8-22 Pres Biden & Demos Betray Railway Workers & Chicago MTA ATU Pres Candidat. indybay.org WorkWeek covers Pres Biden & Demos Betray Railway Workers & Chicago MTA ATU Pres Candidate Erek Slater, The UAW UC Strike & Privatization & Lessons Of Brazil & Rise Of Fascism…
(2022-12-13). Protest at U of MN against legal threat to Indian Child Welfare Act. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Friday, December 9, over 50 students and community members gathered in front of the student union on the University of Minnesota Twin Cites campus to demand that the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) be protected and upheld in the face of efforts from reactionary, anti-native forces to undo it. | The crowd, composed of both native and non-native students and members of the surrounding community, rallied outside of the student union before marching through campus to the administrative building. | The event was organized by the university's American Indian Student Cultural Center (AISCC) as well…
(2022-12-12). Israel And The Rise Of Jewish Fascism. popularresistance.org enjamin Netanyahu's proposed coalition government of Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists and religious bigots represents a seismic change in Israel, one that will exacerbate Israel's pariah status, erode external support for Israel, fuel a third Palestinian uprising, or intifada, and create irreconcilable political divides within the Jewish state. | Alon Pinkas, writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, calls the coalition government, scheduled to take power in one or two weeks, "a kakistocracy extraordinaire: government by the worst and least suitable collection of ultranationalists, Jewish supremacists, anti-de…
(2022-12-12). Chris Hedges: Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism. mintpressnews.com The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel's apartheid state, exposing a grinning death's head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against the killing of the Palestinians.
(2022-12-12). Manuel Tiago's 'A Line in the Sand': How to beat back a fascist coup. peoplesworld.org 
I remember reading accounts of àÅlvaro Cunhal, leading Portuguese Communist, in the U.S. after the 1974 military coup and popular uprising ended the long fascist regime of Salazar and his successors. Cunhal was often denounced as a rigid and dogmatic "Stalinist" and defender of the Soviet Union. Fortunately, I had already learned to question capitalist …
(2022-12-12). Fascist Marjorie Taylor Greene boasts January 6 coup would have succeeded if she led it because "we would've been armed" wsws.org Greene's comments were warmly received at the gathering, which included several Republican politicians and members of far-right European parties.
(2022-12-12). Dakar Manifesto: Africa: From Resistance to Alternatives, 2001. orinocotribune.com By Black Agenda Report Nov 9, 2022 | The 2001 Dakar Manifesto had a simple but unassailable claim: the total and unconditional cancellation of the odious African debt. | Two recent incidents demonstrate in unembellished and unambiguous fashion how capitalism, to paraphrase the great Walter Rodney, continues to exploit and under-develop Africa. First, the UK's Serious Fraud Office convicted a subsidiary of the Anglo-Swiss multinational corporation Glencore of paying millions of dollars in bribes to state-owned companies in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Sudan, in order to buy pri…
(2022-12-12). Democratic Socialists of America provide cover for UAW and Democrats as they move to shut down University of California strike. wsws.org The DSA is promoting the lie that Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom can be relied on to "intervene" on behalf of striking UC academic workers.
(2022-12-12). As Long As We Are Here, We Will Keep Fighting. popularresistance.org On June 30, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, son of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was elected in the presidential election in the Philippines. His coming to power raised concerns about the status of human rights in the country, especially when it comes to red-tagging and other forms of repression of human rights activists. | Viva Salud, a Belgian organization working to protect and promote the right to health, met with Tinay Palabay, secretary-general of Karapatan, an alliance that conducts research and advocacy of human rights, to discuss what the new government will bring to health activists. I fear that Marcos wi…
(2022-12-12). As long as we are here, we will keep fighting: Filipino health activists brave repression. popularresistance.org On June 30, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, son of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was elected in the presidential election in the Philippines. His coming to power raised concerns about the status of human rights in the country, especially when it comes to red-tagging and other forms of repression of human rights activists. | Viva Salud, a Belgian organization working to protect and promote the right to health, met with Tinay Palabay, secretary-general of Karapatan, an alliance that conducts research and advocacy of human rights, to discuss what the new government will bring to health activists.
(2022-12-12). Several US Cities Have Increased Policing of Palestine Solidarity. truthout.org In multiple cities across the U.S., the right-wing push for new laws to silence criticism of Israel for its human rights violations has reached a crescendo. As part of a growing international effort, Israel lobby groups have convinced local jurisdictions in several U.S. states to adopt the controversial and overbroad definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance… |
(2022-12-12). Why Venezuela Has Resisted While Many Leftist Presidents Could Not. popularresistance.org Objectively reviewing the history of our times proves that Chávez faced—and Maduro has continued to face—all the strategies, tactics, maneuvers, games, and schemes that the US empire and its satellites and lackeys have successfully used throughout the rest of the continent, among other ploys that have been used in other parts of the world. | Let's conduct a thorough count from memory: coups d'état, military riots, public uprisings by high-ranking military officers, strikes and sabotages of the productive industrial apparatus, denunciations of electoral fraud with violent protests, interference through…
(2022-12-12). Will Belated Open Letter by The New York Times and other Media Outlets Be Enough to Compel Julian Assange's Release From Prison? covertactionmagazine.com Or will vindictive elites exposed as war criminals in documents Assange released and who engaged in deep-reaching smear campaign directed against him try to lock up the heroic truth-teller forever? On November 28, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Le Monde and El Pais sent an Open Letter to the world, stating that …
(2022-12-11). The ADL Issues Statement Declaring Ukraine's Azov Battalion No Longer 'Far-Right'. strategic-culture.org 
By Alexander RUBINSTEIN | The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has emailed The Grayzone a defense of the Azov Battalion and refused to condemn the Pentagon for honoring a veteran of the group who sports Nazi-inspired tattoos. | A November 9 email from the Anti-Defamation League to The Grayzone provided a twisted defense of Ukraine's Azov Battalion. Despite its self-proclaimed "anti-hate" mission, the ADL insisted in the email it "does not" consider Azov as the "far right group it once was." | The Azov Battalion is a neo-Nazi unit formally integrated into the US government-backed Ukrainian military. Founded by Andriy…
(2022-12-11). Communication Workers Union pleads at national rally for pro-business settlement to end UK postal strike. wsws.org The union bureaucracy's nationalism and servility before the capitalist state was epitomised by its march to Buckingham Palace to plead for support from King Charles.
(2022-12-11). Communications Workers Union pleads at national rally for pro-business settlement to end UK postal strike. wsws.org The union bureaucracy's nationalism and servility before the capitalist state was epitomised by its march to Buckingham Palace to plead for support from King Charles.
(2022-12-11). Multiple Economic Fractures in Mordor. dissidentvoice.org 
Orientation The golden age of left-wing economists In part because the 1960s was still a period of capitalist abundance, there were few socialists in Yankeedom who pointed to the economic contradictions of capitalism as a motivator for the coming revolution. "Western Marxists" ignored the economy, imagining capitalism could go on forever. As first anarcho-communist and …
(2022-12-11). How America Used WWI To Crush Internal Dissent. popularresistance.org Behind the triumphant narrative of the American entry into WWI is another story of a society riven by powerful contradictions. In 1917 the US was overwhelmed by labor disputes, rising anti-immigrant 'nativism,' and unrelenting racial violence, particularly against Black people. In his new book, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, historian Adam Hochschild traces the untold story of how WWI reshaped America's domestic politics. The Great War provided the occasion to clamp down on the Socialist Party of America and the International Workers of the World, muzzle the p…
(2022-12-11). The 'Twitter Papers' Reveal the Totalitarians Among Us. globalresearch.ca
(2022-12-11). The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset. globalresearch.ca Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier.
(2022-12-11). Tunisia Goes To The Vote: A Fake Democracy That The Globalist Elites Like So Much. southfront.org 
| Written by Piero Messina | Kais Saied is the prophet of a new world order, the apologist for a new model of democracy that follows the stylistic features of authoritarianism. This is why Saied is liked by the Western elites. A veil of "global" silence has fallen on what is happening in Tunisia. Yet, on December 17, Tunisia goes to the vote to choose its new Parliament. But democracy in the land of jasmine no longer exists. In a year and a half, President Kais Saied has demolished the institution…
(2022-12-11). Why the Government of Venezuela Has Resisted While Many Leftist Presidents Could Not. orinocotribune.com By Clodovaldo Hernández Dec 10, 2022 | Each overthrow, removal, disqualification, dismissal, or murder of left-wing presidents or presidential candidates in Latin America highlight the legacies of Comandante Hugo Chávez, of President Nicolás Maduro and, in general, of the Venezuelan political process of the last 23 years. | Objectively reviewing the history of our times proves that Chávez faced—and Maduro has continued to face—all the strategies, tactics, maneuvers, games, and schemes that the US empire and its satellites and lackeys have successfully used throughout the rest of the continent, a…
(2022-12-11). Xi says China to support, help Somalia in reconstruction, anti-terror fight. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Friday that China is ready to provide assistance to the best of its ability for Somalia's reconstruction and social and economic development, and encourages the two countries' enterprises to explore cooperation in areas including agriculture, fishery and health.
(2022-12-11). Suspenden a vicepresidenta del Parlamento Europeo, Eva Kaili. telesurtv.net En la víspera el grupo de los Socialistas y Demócratas en la Eurocámara, al que pertenece Kaili, decidió suspender a la eurodiputada griega.