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Mobilize and defend Venezuela
It is new and it is not new, but it is tremendously wicked and deadly – the latest type of coup the US invented and is now applying against...
Selling Integrity
David Macilwain Ever since Dud and Pete put a price on “Integrity” in their Welsh music teacher sketch of the ‘60s, the word has had suspicious undertones. Rebuffed by...
Over 70 Experts Call for US to Stop Interfering in Venezuela
via Venezuelan Analysis, 24 January 2019 Noam Chomsky, Alfred de Zayas, Sujatha Fernandes, Boots Riley, John Pilger, Vijay Prashad and many others oppose US interventionism in Venezuela. The statement is worth...
Syria, Then and Now: Liberated of Western-backed Terrorism
Max Parry In a surprise turn of events, last month U.S. President Donald J. Trump made the abrupt unilateral announcement that American troops would begin to withdraw from Syria....
Brexit: Who will speak for us?
David Lindsay It gives me no pleasure to say this, but it is clearly the case. No Deal is already off the table. That assurance has been given by...
The Fetishization of the Corporate Media
CJ Hopkins So the corporate media have gone and done it again. As they have, repeatedly, for the last two and half years, they shook the earth with a...
Open Thread: US Backs anti-Maduro Coup in Venezuela
In a move that many of us saw coming, the US has backed efforts to force Nicolas Maduro from the Presidency of Venezuela. Earlier today Donald Trump officially recognised...
The FBI’s police state operation against Trump
Patrick Martin, 14 January, 2019, via WSWS A front-page article published Saturday in the New York Times revealing that the FBI secretly opened a counter-intelligence investigation into President Donald...
Fighting Poverty with a Hate Map?
Eve Mykytyn The name, ‘The Southern Poverty Law Center’ (SPLC) is misleading. The SPLC does little to alleviate poverty, its own stated goals are: fighting hate, teaching tolerance and...
Guardian Reports More “Good News”, Kids are Dying in Venezuela
The Guardian’s Tom Phillips’ article “Venezuela Crisis Takes Deadly Toll on Buckling Health System” (January 06, 2019) is more good news for US psychopaths, such as Trump, Bolton and...
Media Vermin Never Sleep
Cheap jokes as vectors for a nuclear Armageddon (or how I learned to laugh myself into an early eternity) Patrice Greanville, January 15, 2019, via Greanville Post Not funny...
WATCH: Truth At Last: The Assassination of Martin Luther King
Released last year, to mark the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination, James Corbett’s documentary examines King’s attempt to reconcile the civil rights and anti-war movements of the late 1960s,...
We Need a Martin Luther King Day of Truth
As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole. Across the country – in response to the King Holiday...
Demands (to Save the World)
Eddison Flame Any good movement needs a list of demands, so I resolved to come up with one. Of course, for now anyway, these are just my demands, but...
A Gentrified Little Town Goes to Pot
Edward Curtin In my little town/ I grew up believing/God keeps his eye on us all.” Simon and Garfunkel, My Little Town Hello my old friends Paul and Art,...
Buzzfeed, Question Time & the purpose of Fake News
in the last two months both Buzzfeed and The Guardian have issued "BREAKING NEWS" stories that were based on anonymous sources....both these stories were shown to be untrue...
“Conspiracy theories” believed by “significant minority”
A revealing observation is contained in a recent UK government report UK FOREIGN POLICY IN A SHIFTING WORLD ORDER (published December 2018) and brought to our attention on Twitter....
Main Street, Brexitland
Tony Sutton People in England’s northern towns and cities are scared. Their fears stoked by xenophobic right-wing media, they hate Europe, and they hate migrants. But, most of all,...
Tilting at the Mills in the Empire: Or, Fascism Real and Imaginary
Vladimir Golstein In the real world, fascists come to power when Western democracies imposed unbelievably harsh sanctions on Germany, and when the genuine German lefties were crushed by the...
Why is Theresa May still Prime Minister?
Theresa May's government has a strong argument for being the worst in the history of our democracy. So why is it allowed to continue?