(2024-07-23). Three Things Missing from the Big Biden Butt Kiss. counterpunch.org 
I get it: in order to induce the declining, cognitively crippled Joe Biden to admit that he's a catastrophic loser bringing down his party and greatly increasing the likelihood of full Republi-fascist takeover in 2025, Democrats have had to kiss the president's ass. The only way to get Bernie Sanders' "good friend" "Genocide Joe" Biden to give up his delegates and allow them to go to someone with (perhaps) a better shot at beating Adolph Trump (the man Trump's 2024 vice presidential running mate JD Vance called "America's Hitler" in 2016) was to praise the incumbent as "a man of great integrity with a long and no…
(2024-07-23). Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Toxic Pro-War Media Empire. mintpressnews.com A free media, we are told, is the bedrock of democracy. But freedom from what? Certainly, government interference in media exists. But plutocratic elites also exert massive pressure on the media.
(2024-07-23). Vote For Six-Headed Zombie Hitler To Stop Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler. caitlinjohnstone.com.au
(2024-07-23). Israel v Belgium game moved to Hungary after Belgian red card. newarab.com 
A football match between Belgium and The move to Hungary comes after the Belgian Football Federation (RBFA) announced last week it would not host the game on 6 September, as it would likely spark demonstrations amid Israel's ongoing war on Ac…
(2024-07-23). Western powers set to tighten sanctions against Israeli settler groups after Hague opinion. haaretz.com A top official said this round of sanctions will be 'more painful' than previous ones, with some countries expected to issue sanctions against the settlement enterprises for the first time…
(2024-07-23). Venezuela Will Not Admit Spanish Delegation for Elections. orinocotribune.com In the absence of an invitation to observe the presidential elections on July 28, Venezuelan authorities will not allow a delegation from the Spanish Senate to enter the country. Right-wing delegations sent from Europe and other "Western" countries to elections in socialist and anti-imperialist countries have been a long-standing practice as a propaganda tool for their imperialist agendas. | According to
(2024-07-23). CPC Charts Path To Achieve An Advanced Socialist Society By 2050. popularresistance.org The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Beijing from Monday July 15 to Thursday, July 18. It adopted a resolution listing a set of reforms with the objective of deepening the modernization process in the country in the path to complete building an advanced socialist market economy in China by the year 2035 and an advanced socialist society by 2050. | Chinese President Xi Jinping who is also the general secretary of the CPC presided over the meeting attended by 199 members and 165 alternate members. | Each elected Central Committee, the highest deci…
(2024-07-23). AI, Guaranteed Income and the 'Which Way Is Up?' Problem Afflicting Our Elites. scheerpost.com 
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press Leading media outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker have about as much concern for intellectual consistency as TikTok videos. In very serious and somber tones they will warn the rest of us about a major problem and then in the next issue, …
(2024-07-23). Tianjin team develops greener propylene catalyst. ecns.cn Scientists from Tianjin University have developed a cheap, environmentally friendly catalyst for propylene — a raw material in plastics, fibers and pharmaceuticals — that could halve production costs.
(2024-07-23). Tsinghua professor expounds on 'active government' within socialist market economy. ecns.cn The concept of an "active government" has been a topic of discussion in recent years, with debates on the appropriate extent of governmental involvement in various sectors. However, the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has shed light on this issue, a senior Chinese scholar has said.
(2024-07-23). EU's Top Diplomat Boycotts Hungary's EU Presidency Over Orban's Peace Mission. news.antiwar.com Josep Borrell, the European Union's top foreign policy official, has taken a step to effectively boycott Hungary's rotating presidency of the EU in response to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's recent efforts to pursue peace in Ukraine. Hungary was scheduled to host a meeting of EU foreign ministers in August but Borrell said the meeting …
(2024-07-23). France Election: Massive Mobilization of the Left. socialistproject.ca 
What are the results of the parliamentary elections in France on 7 July 2024?: | In the second round of France's
(2024-07-23). Grey Anderson: Imperium Uncloaked. newleftreview.org Grey Anderson on Tom Stevenson, Someone Else's Empire. Lucid anatomization of the American imperium, with a devastating assessment of the UK's equerry role.
(2024-07-23). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.
(2024-07-23). New law paves way for establishment of one-stop-shop for small businesses. sanews.gov.za New law paves way for establishment of one-stop-shop for small businesses | President Cyril Ramaphosa has assented to the National Small Enterprise Amendment Bill, which streamlines the support services government provided to small and medium businesses as part of broadening participation in the economy by a greater number of South Africans. | "The National Small Enterprise Amendment Act signed by the President amends the National Small Enterprise Act of 1996 to establish a new entity, the Small Enterprise Development Finance Agency, which will incorporate the Small Enterprise Development Finance Agency (SEFA), t…
(2024-07-23). Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Blood and Bombast. newleftreview.org Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Vinayak Chaturvedi, Hindutva and Violence and Janaki Bakhle, Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. Intellectual biographies of Hindu nationalism's Mazzini-inspired theoretician.
This article is part of the People's World 100th Anniversary Series. Forty-five years ago, on July 19, 1979, the Nicaraguan Revolution was victorious. The hated U.S.-backed Somoza family dictatorship was overthrown and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) established a new revolutionary government. Led by Daniel Ortega, the FSLN governed Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990. It …
We host a roundtable the morning after Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, just five days after surviving an assassination attempt, delivering the longest acceptance speech in convention history. Trump began with a somber recounting of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a bullet grazed his right ear, and soon went off script to deliver a rambling diatribe against various political enemies and repeatedly demonized immigrants. "The first three or four days of the convention were pitched as a display of unity," says Benjamin Wallace-Wells of The New Yorker,…
Syrian dictator "The problem is not the meeting, but its content," a video clip released by the p…
The US has a long, chequered relationship with assassination. On one hand, the myths of 1776 recount of a nation born through resistance to the tyranny that it holds at the core of its identity. Values legitimizing tyrannicide can be imputed from the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. On the other hand, the US 
Cuba and Cuban science gained acclaim worldwide for producing their own very effective Covid-19 vaccines. The achievement stood out among nations of the Global South. The feat reflects Cuba's development over decades of a formidable scientific establishment engaged in the development and marketing of biologic products oriented to healthcare mostly, and also to food production. 
Trump and MAGA Republicans are plowing ahead full throttle with their fascist agenda to create an authoritarian Christian nationalist theocracy that bans abortions, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and contraception and runs roughshod over the privacy rights of Americans. The full-blown mass fascist party is on open and ugly display. Its embrace of the Project 2025 …
In the aftermath of over five hundred shootings during the July 4th weekend, reports indicate that "a Texas-based company has developed vending machines that sell bullets and installed them at a handful of grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama, with plans for expansion into other states."1 Violence has become an organizing and governing principle 
As Donald Trump selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his vice-presidential candidate Monday, we look at the record of the 39-year-old political rookie, who rose to fame after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy and who once compared Trump to Hitler and called him unfit for the presidency. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with backing from right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, and he has since embraced the MAGA movement and become one of Trump's most loyal supporters. For more on Vance's rise and his appeal to the Republican base, we go to Pikeville, Kentucky, to speak with famed sociologist Arlie R…
"We were given a genocidal man and a fascist man, and that is a terrible decision to pick from," says one of the protesters who joined a broad coalition of progressive groups and unions to march in Milwaukee against the Republican Party Monday on the first day of the Republican National Convention. We speak with people calling for an end to racist policies supported by the GOP; defending the rights of women, LGBTQ people and abortion access; supporting Palestine and more.
We speak with journalist Robert Kuttner about Donald Trump's selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 election. Vance rose to fame in 2016 after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his upbringing in Appalachia. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with the backing of right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, who spent $10 million on his candidacy. While he was a vocal critic of Trump's politics, once comparing him to Hitler, Vance has since embraced the MAGA movement and is now one of the most vocal defenders of the former president. Vance's elevation is "very…
A brilliant theoretical physicist best known for his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein was also a socialist. John Bellamy Foster describes Einstein's radical political commitments, including his efforts in relation to the founding of Brandeis University, his role in the Henry Wallace campaign, and his seminal essay "Why Socialism?"
Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic.
The 20th CPC Central Committee started its third plenary session in Beijing on Monday. | During the four-day meeting, China's political leadership is expected to discuss deepening reforms, long-term economic development and advancing Chinese modernization. | China is working to become a high-level socialist market economy by 2035. | To discuss: | Qu Qiang is the Assistant Director of the International Monetary Institute. | 
A genocidal Jewish supremacist political culture rewards, well, a genocidal Jewish supremacist. That explains Anthony Housefather's recent appointment as Special Adviser on Jewish Community Relations and Antisemitism. On Friday Justin Trudeau rewarded his most openly hostile caucus member with the newly created position. This gives Housefather a bigger platform to promote Israel's holocaust in Gaza. …
Image by Hennie Stander. | We are endlessly and repetitively treated to sermons on the wonders of capitalism. Everybody will be taken care of, with the proviso that you are willing to work. As I have had frequent cause to note, that a line has to be furiously propagated across every channel speaks to a lack of concrete reality. And as more people, especially young people, see that they have declining possibilities, more questioning inevitably arises. | The only thing worse in capitalism to having a job, however unpleasant, is not having a job. Unemployment benefits are barely at starvation rates and end all to…
Mariana Riscali — In confronting the far right, unity is essential among all who oppose the far right and defend democracy. At the same time, we must maintain our political independence and remain true to our program.
Richard Simmons, television's hyperactive court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday. He turned 76 on Friday. | Simmons died at his home in Los Angeles, his publicist Tom Estey said in an email to The Associated Press. He gave no further details. | Los Angeles police and fire departments say they responded to a house — whose address the AP has matched with Simmons through public records — where a man was declared dead from natural causes. | Simmons, who had revealed a skin cance…
As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock greeted revolutionary and progressive-minded people in France and around the world who had feared the triumph of the neofascist National Rally party.
PARIS—"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold" wrote Yeats in "The Second Coming," but he might as well have been covering the just completed French elections. The mainstream media are describing the mixed results of the National Assembly, the principal French lawmaking body, as "hung" or even validating President Emmanuel Macron's judgment to call a …
Sam Gindin discusses the rise of the US empire, its role in creating a truly global capitalism and the challenges it faces today.
The U.S. government is working to re-shape the country in the image of a totalitarian state. This has remained true over the past 50-plus years no matter which political party held office. This will remain true no matter who wins the 2024 presidential election. In the midst of the partisan furor over Project 2025, a …
"Now is the time of monsters." — Antonio Gramsci Two recent events have shattered complacency about the specter of a fascist takeover globally that a number of us have been warning about for some time now. In Europe, far-right parties scored impressive gains in the elections to the European Parliament in June. In Germany, the 
I was a student in the late 2000s when I had my first brush with "cancel culture." A campus group had invited Nick Griffin — a racist Holocaust denier and leader of a fascist British political party, among other charming things — to speak. Many shocked students, including me, called Griffin's views vile and warned …
LOS ANGELES — Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is presenting a spicy adaptation of Noà´l Coward's salaciously audacious, eyebrow-raising ribald romp Design for Living. During the 1930s, as the Great Depression and rise of fascism devastated and threatened the world, a genre called "Proletarian Theater" entered Broadway, stage left. This pro-worker trend included Clifford Odets's landmark Waiting …
Introduction The applicant in the ECtHR case of Karsai v Hungary, Mr Karsai, a 47-year-old human-rights lawyer who lives in Budapest, was diagnosed in 2022 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — a neurodegenerative disease that causes a progressive loss of motor neuron function leaving the patient completely paralysed, while preserving intellectual function. Mr Karsai maintains …
WASHINGTON—In the spirit of working-class internationalism and the tradition of "an injury to one is an injury to all," labor unions in the U.S. continue to fight for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Israel's genocidal war on Palestine. They are working to pressure the Biden administration to change policies and end its diplomatic and …
Welcome, to This Is America, July 8th, 2024. On today's episode, we speak first with Josh Fernandez, author of the new book, The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist, out now on PM Press. We then speak with anarchist author and organizer Peter Gelderloos, about the recent debacle and fallout… 
Its authors describe it as a presidential transition project. Many of its critics have called it a plan for a right-wing dictatorship. Whatever one's position is on Project 2025, those familiar with it agree that it would fundamentally transform the US political system into a far more conservative state. | What is the purpose of Project 2025?: | The basic purpose of this initiative, outlined in a 922-page 
Dear Madame President of the Swiss Confederation, Ms Viola Amherd Dear Federal Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Ignazio Cassis The proposal to house a liaison office of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Geneva is ill-advised. Switzerland is a neutral country since the Congress of Vienna of 1815[1]. Its well-earned reputation as a responsible State 
A few weeks ago, at a rally in Nevada, Trump told his followers that boat manufacturers are now required to use electric engines. He claimed that someone at a boat company in South Carolina told him, "It's a problem, sir. They want us to make all-electric boats." (There is no such requirement.) Trump then said …