(2024-02-13). Massive Farmers Protests In The EU Pit Social Justice Against Neoliberalism. popularresistance.org Farmers throughout the European Union, from Ireland and France to Poland, Greece and Portugal, are in the streets protesting unsustainable working conditions, namely higher costs of production while the prices for their goods remain stagnant and new environmental regulations are being brutally imposed on them without state support to realize them. Right wing neo-Nazi groups are using the farming crisis to empower themselves, as they were successful in doing in the Netherlands. Clearing the FOG speaks with Morgan Ody, the general coordinator of La Via Campesina – International, about their efforts to resist this r…
(2024-02-14). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org
(2024-02-13). Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin. cadtm.org
(2024-02-13). Destaca presidente de Cuba pertinencia de nueva Operación Verdad. radiohc.cu La Habana, 13 feb (RHC) El presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, expresó este martes la urgencia de articular a las fuerzas de izquierda del mundo para desarrollar acciones revolucionarias contra la ofensiva ideológica del capitalismo, en una nueva Operación Verdad.
(2024-02-13). MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: 27 Dresses (w/ Erica Bitton). levernews.com
(2024-02-13). Cashing in on Racist Bail. counterpunch.org 
Most Americans have not considered "cash bail" as critical to equality and freedom. The term is an esoteric one but is increasingly central to the ongoing battle over racial capitalism, policing, and mass incarceration, especially in an election year as critical as 2024. Here's what cash bail means: When arrested by police on suspicion of
(2024-02-13). John Saul and the Meaning of Solidarity. socialistproject.ca 
Like many others from around the world, and particularly Southern Africa, we have mourned the passing of John S. Saul in September 2023 in Toronto, the city where he grew up, taught and wrote his numerous books and essays. His contributions to the liberation of Southern Africa from his years there, his writings, and his role in forming the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa, a key fulcrum of anti-apartheid activism in Canada. For many of us, John was a teacher, comrade, and spirited partisan of jazz, theatre and the Toronto sports teams. He was also an important force behind the Canadian p…
(2024-02-14). Psychic Totalitarian Madness Infects Rural Montana. counterpunch.org 
The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast The slowest now will later be fast As the present now will later be past The order is rapidly fadin' And the first one now will later be last 'Cause the times, they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan On Tuesday, January 30, the Gallatin County Commission
(2024-02-14). Police raids against former president Bolsonaro and generals expose coup plot in Brazil. wsws.org The raids stem from investigations into Bolsonaro's plans to overthrow the 2022 presidential elections and remain in power as a dictator.
(2024-02-13). Could Indonesia's Presidential Election Usher In Return to Military Rule? truthout.org Wednesday's presidential election in Indonesia could see the ascendance of General Prabowo Subianto, who has tried for years to seize power after decades of involvement in mass killings, kidnapping and torture across Indonesia, in occupied East Timor and in independence-seeking Western New Guinea. Subianto is a longtime U.S. protégé and the son-in-law of former Indonesian dictator Suharto. |
(2024-02-14). María Corina Machado and the Betrayal of Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Atilio Borón — 11 Feb, 2024 | Senility is not only a problem for President Joe Biden but for the empire as a whole. Days ago, the United States government announced new sanctions against Venezuela following the decision of Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice to ratify the disqualification of Mrs. María Corina Machado from running as a candidate in the next presidential elections. | It was enough for the news to be known for the media sewer—the one that completely silences the ongoing genocide in Gaza or the Dina Boluarte massacres in Peru—to immediately lose its temper and begin to launch all ki…
(2024-02-13). CNN Propaganda Depicts Russia's Use of Nepali Mercenaries as Cruel & Unusual. thealtworld.com CNN Propaganda Depicts Russia's Use of Nepali Mercenaries as Cruel & Unusual, But the British & Americans Have Used & Abused Nepali Fighters for Generations | CNN sets out to blame Russia, but the poverty & exploitation of Nepali labor including soldiers-for-hire began during the British Empire ( The West delibe…
(2024-02-13). Kashmir's Struggle for Self-Determination. counterpunch.org 
Together with Palestine, the state of Kashmir is one of the longest existing political and territorial conflict remaining from the aftermath of the British Empire. Kashmir, together with its sister state of Jammu, were granted a quasi-autonomy at the end of British rule in the subcontinent. The status of the states was to be determined
(2024-02-14). COSASE orders audit into gorilla trekking permit scam. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises (COSASE) has ordered a forensic audit into the 500 million Shillings gorilla trekking permit scam at the Uganda Wildlife Authority-UWA. Medard Lubega Ssegonna, the COSASE Chairperson issued the directive on Tuesday while probing UWA officials led …
(2024-02-14). New Hope for a Check on CEO Compensation. counterpunch.org 
Could any corporate execs walking our world today be any greedier than the execs who run Big Pharma? Hard to say. But out-grasping Big Pharma, suggests a new report out of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, would certainly require some serious greed. Consider, for instance, the pay record of the