Janisse Miles gave the following excerpted remarks at an August 22, 2025, Workers World Party meeting in New York City in honor of Black August. Activists take part in a protest against President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 16, 2025. (Photo: Jack Gruber) On Aug. 11, Donald Trump declared a state of emergency…
Activists protesting the Israeli military’s killing of nearly 270 journalists in Palestine and Gaza over the past two years, including the Aug. 10 intentional assassination of Anas al-Sharif and several other journalists and photographers working for Al-Jazeera, held a press conference and rally outside the offices of CBS broadcasting in Philadelphia on Aug. 21. Press…
WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) — With Trump-style nationalism out the door, a new era of imperial ideology is upon us. This mutation of the empire’s dominant dogma is manifesting throughout global institutions of economic, political and social control and is materializing in a myriad of conflict theatres. In order to identify where woke imperialism exists,…
Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down for a teleconference Q&A with Hudson Institute senior fellow, Marie-Josee Kravis at the Economic Club of New York; a think tank founded at the start of the 20th century, which broaches issues surrounding “social, economic and political questions.” The organization is currently chaired by the President…
In a text-book application of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s infamous quote of never letting “a serious crisis go to waste,” the State Department’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), Stuart McGuigan, credits the COVID-19 pandemic with spurring the “modernizations” that are currently taking place in the IT infrastructure at the U.S. Bureau of Information Resource Management…
The United States has long used foreign aid packages as the carrot in its approach to diplomacy and as a way to grease the wheels in the governments of other countries which might have something that beckons U.S. interests. For decades. though, the task of disbursing said assistance has fallen to USAID, the U.S. Agency…
It’s said that you can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. And the shady characters President Trump has surrounded himself with represent a new low even by Washington standards. One thread that ties many of these people together is their deep connection with the fossil fuel industry — and their willingness…
I wonder how Rex Tillerson feels about being the first high-level federal official to be fired publically and online, in one brutal tweet. I’m sure he expected the hammer to come down on him, but not like that. And I wonder if he will come forward to describe what led up to it. Unlikely, as…
The U.S. press is currently in an uproar over the shoddy state of affairs at the Department of State’s new propaganda department, the Global Engagement Center (GEC) — with blame being laid squarely on the shoulders of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. In our March 1 article on the Center, we detailed how the office –…
Janisse Miles gave the following excerpted remarks at an August 22, 2025, Workers World Party meeting in New York City in honor of Black August. Activists take part in a protest against President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 16, 2025. (Photo: Jack Gruber) On Aug. 11, Donald Trump declared a state of emergency…
Activists protesting the Israeli military’s killing of nearly 270 journalists in Palestine and Gaza over the past two years, including the Aug. 10 intentional assassination of Anas al-Sharif and several other journalists and photographers working for Al-Jazeera, held a press conference and rally outside the offices of CBS broadcasting in Philadelphia on Aug. 21. Press…
Home » Global » Buffalo: Pots and pans demo for Gaza By Casey Parker Protesters marched through the Allentown area of Buffalo, New York, on Aug. 20 to protest the genocide and famine in Gaza, perpetrated by Israel and aided and abetted by the U.S empire. The demonstration was organized by Workers World Party (WWP)…
Originally published at ScheerPost on July 02, 2025. Republished with permission. As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement…
