Republican politicians and reactionary media outlets have joined the ultrarightist Tea Party types in an all-out attack on the Internal Revenue Service and, by extension, on the Barack Obama administration. Instead of meeting this unwarranted and unsubstantiated attack head-on the way it deserves, the Democrats have caved in, forcing the IRS to apologize to the [...]
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‘Nakba’ means disaster, but not surrender
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Editor May 15, 2013 » Add the first comment.
May 15 marks the 65th anniversary of the beginning of what Palestinians and their supporters call the Nakba, “the disaster,” which followed the illegal founding in 1948 of the state of Israel, with the full cooperation of international imperialism. The founding of the Israeli state was accompanied by massacres and the forced removal through terror [...]
Shut Guantánamo down!
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Editor May 12, 2013 » Add the first comment.
They won’t try us. They won’t let us live in peace, and they won’t let us die in peace.” — Fayiz al-Kandari, hunger striker at the Camp Delta, U.S. military prison, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (The Guardian, May 4). In the face of a growing number of hunger strikers, now numbering as many as 130 of [...]
Condemn big-brand exploitation
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Editor May 1, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Any real war on terror would start by hunting down those responsible for the textile factory collapse outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Start from the bottom, round up the subcontractors who place the job orders. Then the garment factories owners who ordered workers back into the Rana plant. They ignored the big crack in the wall. Then [...]
REAL terrorist in the world today…
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up!” is the title of an excellent Saul Landau video revealing the terror campaign against Cuba waged from Florida and the five Cuban men now in U.S. prisons going on 15 years who infiltrated anti-Cuba groups in Miami to prevent them from slaughtering Cuban civilians. It could equally be [...]
A tale of two cities’ explosions
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Editor April 23, 2013 » Add the second comment.
In one week, not one but two U.S. cities were rocked by deadly explosions. On April 15, bombs at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured 170. An area with over one million people was put in a 24-hour lockdown by a combined force of over 9,000 police, FBI and Department of Homeland Security [...]
The Boston bombing & racist media
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Editor April 16, 2013 » Add more comments.
April 16 — Much still remains unknown about the bomb explosions yesterday at the finish line of the Boston Marathon and what was behind this disaster that has tragically hit so many individuals and families who were on the scene, the majority of them spectators. The famed event draws runners and their families and supporters [...]
Stop the rightist coup in Venezuela
April 16 — Fascist-like elements backed by U.S. imperialism are attempting a coup against constitutional rule in Venezuela. The Venezuelan masses, other Latin Americans and progressives worldwide are standing up and saying “no” to this coup, which follows the rightist defeat in that country’s free and fair election April 14. It is vitally important that [...]
Imperialist intervention (A case study)
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Editor April 11, 2013 » Add the first comment.
No matter how it may have started, there is absolutely no doubt now that the conflict in Syria is not a “civil war” but an imperialist-funded and -driven intervention to pull down a government that refuses to be a puppet of the United States and its NATO allies. In this full-blown war, more than 70,000 [...]
Thatcher’s brutal legacy
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Editor April 10, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Class counts. The bosses and bankers love the political leaders who serve them best and hurt the workers and oppressed the most. The workers and poor people who suffered and still suffer from the acts of these leaders continue to hate them — dead or alive. This explains why the British reactionaries and bankers and [...]
