Middle East

In Middle East visit, oil access trumps human rights

No Palestinians living under Israeli occupation benefitted one iota from President Joe Biden’s brief Middle East visit. Biden had the…

July 20, 2022

Emigration and war: Capitalist media suppress the obvious

The reports about tens of thousands of desperate refugees scrambling out of the Middle East and North Africa, trying to…

August 15, 2015

No to NATO and AFRICOM in Spain

The following are edited excerpts from a news release from the Global Platform Against War, which organizes across the Spanish…

July 9, 2015

U.S. bolsters Egyptian military regime as ousted president sentenced to death

Egypt’s military ruling class tightened its grip over the country on May 16 as three judges imposed death sentences on…

May 22, 2015

San Francisco protesters hit Netanyahu’s speech

Demonstrators gathered March 3 at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco to protest war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's…

March 21, 2015

Saudi oil and U.S. hypocrisy

Few events expose the utter hypocrisy of U.S. politicians’ grand words about democracy so starkly as their praise for the…

January 27, 2015

Pentagon deploys more troops

With an air of absolute cynicism, the Pentagon announced on Jan. 16 that it will send 400 combat troops and…

January 22, 2015

U.S. bombs Syria, opens new war in Middle East

Sept. 28 — The U.S. military machine has opened up a new bombing campaign, this one within the boundaries of…

September 29, 2014

WWP hosts Philly socialism conference

Some 100 community members, students and activists attended the Philadelphia Workers World Party Socialism Conference on Sept. 13 held at…

September 18, 2014

Gaza slaughter exposes Democrats

If your eyes weren’t open to the true role of the Democratic Party, the Israeli military’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians…

August 9, 2014