To all workers, working people, oppressed nations, brothers and sisters, May Day is approaching, the international day of unity, struggle and solidarity of the working class, the day when we raise our demands on the streets against capitalist exploitation and… Read More ›
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Final Declaration of the 19th International Seminar: Problems of the Revolution in Latin America
19th International Seminar: Problems of the Revolution in Latin America The Inter-Imperialist Struggles and the Tasks of the Peoples The world today continues its march plunged in the midst of acute and irresoluble contradictions, which are in different and opposing… Read More ›
PFLP condemns US-supported aggression on Yemen
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemns the US-backed aggression on Yemen, in a statement released March 29, expressing concern about the implications of these developments and their inherent risks at all levels. The PFLP emphasizes: 1. its… Read More ›
The Workers’ Party of Tunisia condemns the aggression against the Yemeni People
Machine Translation No military intervention in Yemen In serious crisis in Yemen, a group of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia carried out the aerial bombardment of the capital Sanaa and the most important cities and sites seized by the… Read More ›
Michael Parenti: The Nobel Peace Prize for War
Those who own the wealth of nations take care to downplay the immensity of their holdings while emphasizing the supposedly benign features of the socio-economic order over which they preside. With its regiments of lawmakers and opinion-makers, the ruling hierarchs… Read More ›
U.S. Drones Kill More Than 30 in Yemen; School Targeted in One Attack
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. In fewer than two weeks, Hellfire missiles launched by U.S. drones have killed at least 31 people in Yemen. At least 14 of the victims were believed by President Obama — the launcher-in-chief — to be al-Qaeda militants…. Read More ›
Syrian army takes last militant bastion near Qusayr
Syrian army has retaken control of last militant bastion near Qusayr, bringing its operation closer to a successful end in this region. Government forces restored security in the village of Eastern Bweida on Saturday. On Friday, Syrian troops managed to… Read More ›
Why Socialism?
by J. Bialek The spectre which once haunted Europe long ago in 1848, materialized in corporeal form in 1917 and was seemingly exorcized in 1991 has returned in force. This time the “spectre of communism” is haunting the entire world. In… Read More ›
Most Terrorist Plots in the US Aren’t Invented by Al Qaeda — They’re Manufactured by the FBI
Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/Africa Studio In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists. The following is an excerpt from The Terror Factory:… Read More ›
Obama Waives Child Soldier Ban in Yemen and Congo
Yemeni soldiers during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 4, 2011. (Hani Mohammed/AP Photo) By AVNI PATEL Tens of millions of dollars of U.S. military financing will continue to flow to Yemen and three other countries that recruit and use child soldiers, despite… Read More ›
Former Drone Operator turned Whistleblower: “I saw men, women and children die”
by Ezra Van Auken American drones have been a problem around the world since their inception in the early 2000s; in the past year or so, the advocacy against drones has increased immensely. This could be partly due to the… Read More ›
Bomber in Chief: 20,000 Airstrikes in the President’s First Term Cause Death and Destruction From Iraq to Somalia
Written by Nicolas J.S. Davies | AlterNet Day after day, U.S. air strikes have conclusively answered the familiar question of 9/11: “Why do they hate us?” Many people around the world are disturbed by U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan,… Read More ›
List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen
Compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports PAKISTAN Name | Age | Gender Noor Aziz | 8 | male Abdul Wasit | 17 | male Noor Syed | 8 | male Wajid Noor | 9 | male Syed Wali Shah |… Read More ›
Justifying assassination
If the White House is going to act as judge, jury and executioner in targeting individuals with airstrikes, the least it can do is divulge its legal rationale. A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama… Read More ›
The ‘war on terror’ – by design – can never end
As the Pentagon’s former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction Last month, outgoing pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on… Read More ›