(2024-03-29). Violent Extremists Get Called "Moderates" By A Violent Extremist Empire. caitlinjohnstone.com.au The imperial press have revealingly been using the words "moderate" and "centrist" to eulogize the warmongering former US senator Joe Lieberman, who passed away on Wednesday. | "Centrist former Sen. Joseph Lieberman has died at 82," reads a "As a moderate Democra…
(2024-03-29). Animal Experiments: Illogical, Unscientific and Pointless. expose-news.com Pharmaceutical companies conduct initial trials on animals to determine the safety of new drugs. If a drug does not harm an animal, it is deemed safe for human consumption. However, if an …
(2024-03-29). We need to gain a better understanding of how our bodies work and take charge of our own well-being. expose-news.com The covid vaccines are the latest in a long line of so-called modern pharmaceutical miracles that seem to cause the very things they are designed to prevent. Considering the harm covid injections …
 (2024-03-29).   Strategies for organizational unity and action.  cpusa.org 
 The only remedy against a highly organized ruling class is a highly organized Communist Party. The fascist MAGA right is becoming Struggles within the Struggle  |  The Party Program states, "Grassroots Communist Party clubs are vital to bringing the Party's vision, strategy, and tactics into local work with masses of working people." As a member of a newer, smaller club, however, we are of…
 (2024-03-29).   American Democracy vs. Fascist Autocracy.  counterpunch.org 
 Liberty — Equality — Democracy: America and Americans are defined by their dedication to these founding principles—ideas that were fostered by the Enlightenment philosophers of the late 17th — 18th centuries, the Age of Reason, and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Our Declaration and Constitution are secular documents. There is no invocation 
(2024-03-29). Why Is NATO and The Kiev Regime Terrified of Russia's 'Zircon' Hypersonic Missile? globalresearch.ca
(2024-03-29). Diosdado Cabello Comments on Possible Final Presidential Candidate of Unitary Platform. orinocotribune.com Following the far-right Unitary Platform's (PUD) registration of Edmundo González Urrutia as their "cover" candidate for the presidential elections, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, has commented on who might replace this "provisional" candidate of the far-right opposition. | During the broadcast of his program Con el Mazo Dando, Cabello first talked about what a "cover candidate" means, and how it is defined in the Venezuelan legal system. He explained, reading from Electoral Law, that a "cover" candidate may be replaced by someone who has already been…
 (2024-03-29).   Victorian nurses reject gov't enterprise offer.  greenleft.org.au 
 
(2024-03-29). Congress Goes Berserk Over TikTok. counterpunch.org Lots of people have been blamed for the frenzy to ban TikTok, from the CIA and FBI, to the mainstream media, to political elites, to AIPAC, to competitors like Facebook. But I blame Congress. They pulled the trigger. Now as we teeter on the abyss of a Steve Mnuchin takeover of TikTok — a development, make no mistake, that would be disastrous for everything from free speech to ownership of such a platform by a capitalist super-predator, to intelligent, rational foreign policy, to those who simply object to his let-them-eat-cake wife — we can thank the intellectual heavyweights on capitol hill who thoug…
(2024-03-29). Imperial Fruit: Bananas, Costs and Climate Change. dissidentvoice.org The curved course of the ubiquitous banana has often been the peel of empire, its sweetness masking a sharp, bitter legacy. Arab conquerors introduced it to the African continent as they cultivated a slave market. European imperialism did the same to the Americas via the Canary Islands, insinuating the luscious fruit into markets of solid …
 (2024-03-29).   Consider the Commune: Venezuela and Beyond.  counterpunch.org 
 About midway through his new book Commune or Nothing: Venezuala's Communal Movement and its Socialist Project, author Chris Gilbert introduces the reader to Marxist theoretician István Mészáros and his groundbreaking book titled Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition. Gilbert does so in the context of a discussion about the commune movement in Venezuela. The 
 (2024-03-29).   Reflections on Gaza, "Empire," and Who and What is Breaking the World.  counterpunch.org 
 I recently attended a moving presentation of Palestinian poetry at the public library in the University of Iowa campus town of Iowa City. The presenters and audience were largely (though not exclusively) university-based and included a number of folks from the university's renowned Iowa Writers Workshop. There was an invitation for audience members to speak 
(2024-03-29). The Antiauthoritarians of the First International. counterpunch.org The International Workingmen's Association, popularly known as the First International, first met in September of 1864 at St. Martin's Hall in London. It began as a relatively modest gathering of workers, trade unionists, and socialists of various kinds and political inclinations a half-century before the fated October Revolution, before the twentieth century cemented a particular
 (2024-03-29).   A Guy Named Me: The More You See It, The More Incredible It Is.  commondreams.org 
 So the sick kingpin of "Red America's fever dreams" is still here — jabbering, menacing, whining, unraveling, what Biden calls "weak and desperate" and hazardous to our health. Lately, he's been busy going to court, misspelling "Biden," likening himself to Jesus, paying Nazi tribute to "the J6 hostages," shrieking "WITCH HUNT!", claiming migrants aren't people, …
(2024-03-29). The World Bank's support of the dictatorship in Turkey (1980-1983). cadtm.org
(2024-03-29). For a Europe of the peoples against the EU fortress of capitalism. cadtm.org
 (2024-03-29).   Germany to quiz would-be citizens on Israel in new test.  newarab.com 
 Future In the new test, which applicants must pass to acquire German nationality, candidates could be asked the founding year of Israel or Germany's alleged particular The punishments for Holocaust denial, the name of the Je…
  The Foggy Dew — Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains MoA: New York Times Misreports Gaza UNSC Resolution Stop the Worsening Undercount of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza, by Ralph Nader Redirecting: On Gaza and the Palestinian Resistance, by Mazin Qumsiyeh Peter Myers Digest: Israel and Gaza Cat McGuire Asks Jeff Brown about "Zio-American Empire vs. China," by Kevin Barrett Is "Neocon" synonymous with "Nazi"? by Don Hank Democracy Is an Ideal Government for Jewish Influence, by Thomas Dalton New Alliances and Military Strength Surge Amid Yemen's Unwavering Support for Gaza, by A Abdulkareem…
 Socialist Party of Malaysia (Parti Sosialis Malaysia, PSM) Deputy President S Arutchelvan (Arul) recently spoke with Green Left's Peter Boyle about a new hope for reviving left unity in the country.
 Egyptian Medicines Authority's new status will open access to advanced technologies…
Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement has conducted multiple operations against Israeli military outposts in the northern part of the 1948 occupied territories, expressing its unwavering support for Palestinians in Gaza amid a genocidal war.
A spokesman for the UN children's agency said on Tuesday that the situation in the war-torn Gaza is so bad that teens are increasingly expressing their desire to be quickly murdered in order to end the "nightmare". 
  Kenny Chesney — Don't Blink Just Seeing Through The Propaganda Isn't Enough‚Ää —‚Ää We've Got To Open Our Hearts As Well, by Caitlin Johnstone Wake-up Call, by James Howard Kunstler Who wants to march on Moscow, by Alex Kriel Karl Sanchez: Why the West Cannot Stomach Russians, by the late Andre Vitchek Multipolarity: The Era of the Great Transition, by Alexander Dugin — Arktos Journal Bill to Ban TikTok Is 'Egregious Attack' on U.S. Constitution, Critics Say, by Brenda Baletti Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism, by Matt Taibbi Objective/Non…
 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kiira Motors Corporation, a budding indigenous mobility enterprise in the country has presented a 524 billion Shillings proposed business investment budget to the Presidential Affairs Committee of Parliament. It was contained in the Ministerial Policy Statement, and Budget Estimates for the FY 2024/2025. "We are counting on guidance and support …
 NAIROBI | Xinhua | Kenya and Tanzania on Friday launched a project in partnership with the African Confederation of Cooperative Savings and Credit Associations (ACCOSCA) to boost financial inclusion in the two countries. Simon Chelugui, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development told journalists in Nairobi, the …
Faith is a central component in the lives of Palestinians. Gaza, now undergoing an Israeli genocide, is in greater need of its faith than ever before.
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a NEW resolution demanding a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.  The resolution, put forward by the 10 elected council members, is backed by Russia and China, who vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution Friday.  The council is expected to vote on the resolution Monday morning.
President Biden and members of Congress have cynically reinterpreted "human shields" to flout international law.
In fact, for many children, there will be no mothers to celebrate anymore as well over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the beginning of the war. Moreover, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement on X on Thursday that the Israeli war on Gaza has been killing an average of 37 mothers daily since October 7.
 n a world shaped increasingly by emerging authoritarianism, it has become increasingly difficult to remember what a purposeful and substantive democracy looks like, or for that matter, what the idea of democracy might suggest. Democracy as an ideal, promise, and working practice is under assault, just as a number of far-right educational, market, military, and religious fundamentalisms are gaining ascendancy in American society. 
 
 By Mona Péralte — Mar 6, 2024  |  The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was founded in Caracas, Venezuela in December 2011 as an alternative to the Washington, DC-based Organization of American States (OAS), formed in 1948 to be a Cold War chariot. Cuba characterizes the OAS as Washington's "Ministry of Colonial Affairs, " which expelled the socialist nation in 1962.  |  "As the years go by, CELAC is going to leave behind the old and worn-out OAS," then Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said at the 33-member alliance's inaugural ceremonies.  |  "It's the death sentence for the Monroe Doctrine…
 
 Arun Kundnani details the histories of liberal and radical anti-racism and argues that anti-racism ultimately means anti-capitalism.
 In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people.
 Critical theorist, feminist and author Nancy Fraser continues her conversation with Green Left's Federico Fuentes, focussing on the role of expropriation and transnationals in modern imperialism, and the challenges facing anti-imperialists and anti-capitalists.
 Oscar-winning director calls out 'hijacking' of Holocaust by Israel in acceptance speech  |  Jonathan Glazer called for people to resist the dehumanisation of Israelis and Palestinians in the 7 October attacks and the war in Gaza.  |    |  Jonathan Glazer poses with the Oscar for Best Internat…
 By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Democratic elites and the reporters who clerk for them were effusively approving of Joe Biden's State of the Union speech last Thursday evening—not so much for what he said, which came nothing new, as for the demeanor of our enfeebled president. Never mind that Biden reduced an occasion …
 "Nothing has changed, and everything has changed." These are the words of Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American businessman and activist who spoke to our delegation. Nothing has changed because the deadly oppression of the Palestinian people has been ongoing for 76 years. Everything has changed since October 7, the day Hamas fighters pierced the walls of the concentration camp called Gaza. As followers of Jesus, 
 Just three years shy of his 100th birthday, Oscar will hoist himself off his slab to stand at attention one more time this coming Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. He'll try his best to keep the chin up and the fascist countenance glowing. But the luster is gone. You can see the 
 The holocaust that is underway in Gaza is being enabled by the US government and denied by the mainstream US press. When the German Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators massacred their Jewish, Roma, and other victims, they often coaxed them to the site of the massacre by offering them food. For media consumption, they had 
 Green Left's Federico Fuentes spoke to Pakistani socialist Ammar Ali Jan of the Haqooq- 
 The early history of the Industrial Workers of the World has become the stuff of legend for the U.S. socialist left. Key to the legendary status of the early IWW is the notion that the organization was a "singing union."
 Iran foreign minister says Meta banning Khamenei was 'illegal and unethical'  |  Hossein Amir Abdollahian tells MEE the 'Silicon Valley Empire' wants to censor pro-Palestinian voices  |    |  Hossein Amir Abdollahian at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 26 February (AFP/Gabriel Monnet)…
 This IWD, let's deepen our commitment to fighting against the colonialism and war that is inherent under this rotten system.
 What would you say if the notorious racist and anti-semite prime minister of Hungary Victor Orban accused Einstein of … anti-semitism? And Hanna Arendt as well? Together with the most iconic author of Holocaust literature Primo Levi?>
 We speak with Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa, who is in Cairo and just returned from two weeks in Gaza. "What's happening to people isn't just this death and dismemberment and hunger. It is a total denigration of their personhood, of their whole society," says Abulhawa. "What I witnessed personally in Rafah and some of the middle areas is incomprehensible, and I will call it a holocaust — and I don't use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that."…
 Ahead of the 96th Academy Awards, we're joined by James Wilson, producer of the Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest, who raised Israel's assault on Gaza in his BAFTA Award acceptance speech last month. The film follows the fictionalized family of real-life Nazi commandant Rudolf Hà∂ss as they live idyllically next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Wilson says the film serves as a metaphor for the occlusion of "systemic violence, injustice, oppression, from our lives," and challenges audiences' complicity by asking them to identify with Hà∂ss and his wife Hedwig. &#…
 The Supreme Court did not kill diversity. Higher education did it to itself. It has done it slowly and methodically over the last few years, as the corporate university created and then destroyed diversity as part of its business plan to attract students and make itself more relevant to American capitalism. 
 By Jeremy Kuzmarov — Feb 27, 2024  |  Revolution Has Survived and Flourished Despite U.S. Attempts to Destroy It  |  February 2 marked the 25th anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution. On that day in 1999, Hugo Chávez, a left-wing Venezuelan army officer, assumed power and initiated a socialist revolution that had ripple effects across the region and world.  |  Invoking the legacy of Simón Bolívar, who had led much of Latin America's liberation from Spanish colonization in the 1820s, Chávez's government enacted measures to retake national control over Venezuela's oil resources and to use the revenues to fund soci…
 A French channel has aired an investigation on the 'dictatorship' of Kais Saied, sparking controversy in Tunisia and risking diplomatic ties between Paris and Tunis.  |  On Sunday at midnight, hundreds of Tunisians tuned in to watch "Exclusive investigation: Between Poverty and Dictatorship, The Grand Step Backwards," a one-hour investigation on the shrinking freedoms within the North African country, produced by the private French channel, M6.  |  The investigation had already ruffled Tunisian officials' feathers before its official broadcast.  |  On 29 February, Tunisia's Prime Minister, Ahmed Hachani, praised his…
 Federal prosecutors in New York have rested their case against former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is accused of turning the Central American country into a narco-state. Hernández is on trial for cocaine trafficking and weapons charges and is the first former head of state to stand trial in the United States since Panamanian dictator and U.S. ally Manuel Noriega was also tried on drug charges after a U.S.-led ouster. Prosecutors accuse Hernández, a longtime U.S. ally accused of human rights violations throughout his presidency, of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from cocaine traffickers…