Jacqueline Luqman — vice chair of the Black Alliance for Peace’s coordinating committee and co-coordinator of the Mid Atlantic region and the D.C. Citywide Alliance of the Black Alliance for Peace — gave this edited presentation on the United National Antiwar Coalition’s webinar on the U.S. role in Syria. Jacqueline Luqman on webinar on U.S.…
This article was requested and published in the Winter edition of Seara Nova, a print magazine of politics and culture of the Portuguese left. The print magazine has existed since 1921 and is sold in hundreds of kiosks throughout Portugal. The following is the original, which was written Nov. 25. John Catalinotto. WW PHOTO: Joe…
By A.A. Ware The new year on the Gregorian calendar has just begun, and many can feel a building crescendo of new, old and further abuses from the ruling class. Some on the left are approaching 2025 with trepidation due to Project 2025, a manifesto by the Heritage Foundation for the returning Trump administration. Project…
Buffalo, New York We have lost two inspiring leaders and steadfast lifelong revolutionaries this past year, with the deaths of Lydia Bayoneta in December and Gene Clancy in August, in Rochester, New York. Bayonetta, left of center with fist raised, confronting the KKK in Houston, 1977. Lydia and Gene were life partners for 59 years,…
Jacqueline Luqman — vice chair of the Black Alliance for Peace’s coordinating committee and co-coordinator of the Mid Atlantic region and the D.C. Citywide Alliance of the Black Alliance for Peace — gave this edited presentation on the United National Antiwar Coalition’s webinar on the U.S. role in Syria. Jacqueline Luqman on webinar on U.S.…
This article was requested and published in the Winter edition of Seara Nova, a print magazine of politics and culture of the Portuguese left. The print magazine has existed since 1921 and is sold in hundreds of kiosks throughout Portugal. The following is the original, which was written Nov. 25. John Catalinotto. WW PHOTO: Joe…
I want to welcome you again to this webinar sponsored by the United National Antiwar Coalition. As we saw the events developing in Syria, we put out a statement. You can find that on the UNAC website, which is at UNACpeace.org. Joe Lombardo, UNAC. WW Photo Some people have tried to say that the U.S.…
By Shawky Darwish Shawky Darwish, representing Students for Justice in Palestine at The New School, gave this lightly edited presentation at a webinar on the U.S. role in Syria, sponsored by United National Antiwar Coalition, on Dec. 28, 2024. Shawky Darwish, speaking at webinar on U.S. role in Syria, Dec. 28, 2024. The inspiration for…
Voltaire, International Newsletter is a weekly newsletter on international politics. It features 10 to 15 pages of contextualized, sourced news items. Its aim is to enable you to follow the decline of the unipolar world and the emergence of a multipolar system. The newsletter is published in several languages. Several foreign ministries from different countries…
Voltaire Network | 20 December 2024 • The Kurdish mercenaries of the PKK/YPG who administer north-east Syria for the benefit of the US occupation hoisted the flag of the new regime on their buildings on 12 December in order to demonstrate the unity of the country. • Turkish troops are massing on the border, opposite…
Abou Mohammed al-Joulani, former number 2 of Daesh, now the new master of Damascus, gives a press conference at the Great Umayyad Mosque. {} In 11 days, the Syrian Arab Republic, which had valiantly resisted attacks by jihadists supported by the largest coalition in history since 2011, was overthrown. So what happened? First of all,…
July 24 — A deal brokered by Turkey for the export of grain from both Ukraine and Russia presents a political problem for U.S. imperialism and its war aims. Washington’s response: ship more weapons. The landmark deal to move hundreds of tons of grain, if it moves forward, undermines U.S./NATO . . . Continue reading…
What do you give the person who has everything? Well, if you’re an Amazon or Starbucks worker and that person is the CEO, there’s only one answer. Give the boss a strike! Amazon strike, JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, Dec. 23, 2024. Amazon warehouse workers and drivers began their historic, coordinated strike at…
Home » Stop imperialist war and occupation » For Syria: ‘Build anti-imperialist unity’ The author — representing the Bronx Anti-War Coalition — gave the following edited talk during the Dec. 28 webinar entitled “Syria: Exposing the U.S. role – A regime change operation and Israeli occupation of Syria,” organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition…
Cody Urban, General Secretary of International League of Peoples’ Struggle – U.S., gave this edited presentation on the United National Antiwar Coalition’s webinar on the U.S. role in Syria. Cody Urban speaking on the United National Antiwar Coalition webinar on the U.S. role in Syria, Dec. 28, 2024. If there’s one message, one sentence that…
The Bronx Anti-War Coalition posted the following article on its website on Dec. 27, 2024. A version of this article was presented on a webinar on Syria organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition. Bronx Anti-War Coalition demonstration against imperialist destruction in Syria, New York City, Dec. 15, 2024. The fall of Syria as a…
The Uhuru 3 — African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel — were found not guilty in September of frame-up charges of acting as unregistered Russian agents. In a lesser charge, they were found guilty of conspiring to become Russian agents,…
Milwaukee, WI - june 15 marked the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, the day that Zionist paramilitaries began the violent removal of Palestinians from a majority of their historic homeland. Various organizations in Milwaukee, led primarily by American Muslims for Palestine and Students for...
Fight Back! interviewed Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon, the international coordinator for the Bolivarian Socialist Council of Workers at the Workers’ Summit...
The Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman commented Monday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement comparing Crimea's reunification with Russia to the German reunification.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented Monday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement comparing Crimea's reunification with Russia to the German reunification, joking that it...
Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump discussed anti-terrorism efforts at their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg...
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Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Samarkand today. In...
Plagued with rising crime and gang violence, and concerned about the threat of terrorism, Denmark has decided to employ its armed forces as border controls and guarding duties in order to release more police officers for other work.
Danish police are very busy keeping abreast...
Just before the opening of the Biarritz G7, an intense disinformation campaign was launched in the international press with the complicity of French President, Emmanuel Macron and the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. It aims to allow Europeans to control the Amazon, its minerals, its pharmaceutical treasures and its precious woods. Its purpose…
After the failure of Newsguard — the news rating system backed by a cadre of prominent neoconservative personalities — to gain traction among American tech and social media companies, another organization has quietly stepped in to direct the news algorithms of tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Though different from Newsguard, this group,…
Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking new church law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities, in a new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks. The law provides whistleblower protections for anyone making…
A high-ranking Palestinian official says Emirati companies have been purchasing plots of Palestinian land in occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds and then transferring their ownership to Israelis. Kamal Khatib, the deputy head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, made the remarks in an interview with Qatar’s pan-Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera on Wednesday. Those firms…
VENEZUELAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON — A group of activists banding together as the “Embassy Protection Collective,” in defense of the sovereignty of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, defied orders by the U.S. government to vacate the premises by the 25th of April. Later in the morning, the Trump administration’s special envoy to Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, condemned…
France says Iran's preparatory works to resume uranium enrichment are not in violation of the 2015 nuclear deal it signed with world powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Following an order by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and in response to US President Donald Trump's pullout from…
According to media reports, a large-scale drone attack was launched in the early hours of September 14 against oil refineries of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company Saudi Aramco near the cities of Abqaiq and Khurais in the eastern part of the Kingdom. The Houthi Ansar Allah movement, now fighting against forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh…
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — “It’s sad how the United States is supporting this corrupt government,” Honduran political prisoner Edwin Espinal told MintPress News immediately after his release from prison, where he had spent 19 months. Edwin’s case — and the medieval violence to which U.S.-trained police in Honduras tried to subject me — perfectly illustrate the…
SANA’A, YEMEN — Yemen was once described as a living museum, but U.S. made bombs dropped by the Saudi-led Coalition’s jets have not only killed thousands of civilians and led to famine and the spread of disease but also pulverized the country’s rich architectural history and left its inimitable heritage at the mercy of the…
SANAA, YEMEN — “What happened, where am I?” muttered 44-year-old Adel Ali Ahmed al-Gheit, as neighbors pulled him from the rubble of his home after it was targeted by a Saudi airstrike. Al-Gheit lost his wife and children in the attack and later died after succumbing to his own injuries at the Amran General Hospital.…
Protesters took to the streets of Brussels on Wednesday as the NATO summit continued in the Belgian capital. Demonstrators can be seen chanting slogans and holding banners. One of the them, Joselyne de Markten, explained her reasons for being at the rally. “We are protesting the growing militarism of the EU and the NATO member…
TORONTO — In a near repeat of Saudi Arabia’s feud with Qatar last year, the diplomatic spat between the Saudis and the Canadian government seems to have spiralled out of control after it began last Friday. Apparently beginning as a result of the Canadian Foreign Ministry’s decision to criticize via Twitter the Saudi government’s arrest…