Normally when someone is shot dead, human beings feel sad for the victim. But in the case of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, killed before dawn on the streets of Manhattan on Dec. 4, a large majority of public comments are that empathy is “out of network.” Protesters outside United Healthcare headquarters, Minnetonka, Minnesota, May…
Home » Prisons: tear them down » No thanks for Thanksgiving This commentary was posted on Prison Radio on Nov. 24, 2013, written to honor the National Day of Mourning. Every November, when Thanksgiving is scheduled, I think of the People of the First Nations (so-called Native Americans), and wonder about their mixed feelings for…
Home » Mundo Obrero » ¿Día de acción de gracias? No, gracias Cada noviembre, cuando está programado el Día de Acción de Gracias, pienso en los pueblos de las Primeras Naciones (los llamados Nativos Americanos) y me pregunto cómo se sienten con respecto a un día festivo que oficialmente celebra su enorme generosidad, así como…
There are some weeks when decades happen. In just a few days, the Syrian government has fallen, President Bashar al-Assad has fled to Moscow, and Al-Nusra founder Abu Mohammad al-Julani has taken power. How could all of this have happened so quickly? Only last year, it appeared that Assad was entrenching his position internationally, being…
Normally when someone is shot dead, human beings feel sad for the victim. But in the case of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, killed before dawn on the streets of Manhattan on Dec. 4, a large majority of public comments are that empathy is “out of network.” Protesters outside United Healthcare headquarters, Minnetonka, Minnesota, May…
Home » Prisons: tear them down » No thanks for Thanksgiving This commentary was posted on Prison Radio on Nov. 24, 2013, written to honor the National Day of Mourning. Every November, when Thanksgiving is scheduled, I think of the People of the First Nations (so-called Native Americans), and wonder about their mixed feelings for…
Home » Global » Europe » Imperialism’s hydra-headed monster attacks Syria Jorge Cadima wrote this article for Avante, the newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, published Dec. 5, 2024, before the extremists seized Damascus. Excerpted translation: John Catalinotto. Philadelphia, January 2019. Imperialism spreads chaos and war. The war in Syria has erupted again. Events are…
This statement was jointly written by Rick Sterling of the Syria Support Movement and Rich Merino of the Bronx Anti-War Coalition before the extremists seized Damascus. The dirty war on Syria has entered a new and dangerous phase. On Nov. 27, 15,000 extremists, trained and equipped by the U.S., Türkiye and Ukraine, launched an offensive…
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…
• On December 3 at 10:25 p.m. (local time), South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivered a surprise message to the nation. At the fourth minute of his speech, he said, "Dear citizens, I declare martial law to protect the Republic of Korea from communist threats from North Korea and pro-North anti-state factions undermining our…
Benyamin Netanyahu, who hid from his people his relations with Hamas, falsified official documents about the day of October 7, and lied on many occasions, is leading his country to failure. Why don’t we see the massacres in the Middle East? In recent years, the Israeli peace movement has been dismantled, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism have…
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…
By Lallan Schoenstein This article was published Nov. 30, 2024, by Struggle for Socialism/La lucha por el socialismo. (struggle-la-lucha.org) We publish it with permission of the author. A protest rally during the Great Depression, Jan. 19, 1931. No matter what they say about the U.S. economy, finding a job to support yourself is tough when…
The following remarks by Palestinian-American writer and activist Susan Abulhawa were delivered during a debate sponsored by the Oxford Union, Nov. 28, 2024, on the motion: “This house believes Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide.” The motion was carried by an overwhelming majority of 278-59. Most members of the Union are students at…
Home » Global » Human Rights = Right to Live!: SanctionsKill! webinar Dec. 10 This article is based on a mass email sent out by the Sanctions Kill! campaign. Join us Tuesday, Dec. 10, in person or by zoom for a program on “Solidarity with People-Centered Human Rights,” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m.…
Union drive by Philly resident and fellow physicians Resident and fellow physicians at four major health care institutions in Philadelphia are organizing with the Committee of Interns and Residents, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. In a poignant gesture, the doctors from the four institutions announced their decision to seek union representation in…
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…
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…