Poverty and Crisis: Sucking Humanity Dry
The World Bank says nearly 80% (560 million) of the 700 million people who were pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 due to COVID policies were from India. Globally, extreme poverty…
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Important Chinese Intervention In Ukraine Imbroglio
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, have spoken over the phone, in their first official conversation since Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine more than…
Young People From the U.S. Travel to Cuba and Break the Siege
by Manolo De Los Santos and Kate Gonzales It’s a hot and crowded Tuesday morning in the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana, and the air sticks to the skin. You can…
Politicians and the Anzac Tradition: A Story of Manipulation and Mythology
While the mass slaughtering of, and slaughter by, soldiers, is always a touchy subject of commemoration, a tension has existed between those who did the fighting, and those who ordered…
Did Fox News Just Find Religion?
by Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler and Ariel Gold Tucker Carlson got fired! Many liberals are celebrating, calling it a reckoning — a win for racial justice and decency. With this…
How Ecofascists Are Fueling Racism and Deadly Violence
It’s not often that conservative lobbyists beat the drum for increased environmental oversight and regulation. But that’s what happened this month when the far-right Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR),…
2023 Paradox: 75th Anniversary Of 1948 UDHR Launch & Start Of South African & Israeli Apartheid
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the launch of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. Unfortunately in 1948 inhumanity prevailed with the launch of Apartheid in South…
Salute 50th Anniversary of National Democratic Front of Phillipines
Communists and revolutionary democrats should salute in the National Democratic Front of the Philippines on the historic occasion of the 50th anniversary on April 24th.Homage should be paid to Jose…
10 Years After Rana Plaza, Fast Fashion’s Complex Supply Chains Still Put Workers at Risk
The fact that big brands don't source garments directly makes it harder to investigate exploitative labor practices. On April 24, 2013, a multistory garment factory complex in Bangladesh called Rana…
Blood, Golf and Saudi Arabia: The LIV Tournament in Adelaide
The recently concluded LIV Tournament in Adelaide was a matter of bread, circuses and golf. It was something of a triumph for the chief sponsor: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,…
With $2,240 Billion, Global Military Expenditure Reaches New Record High In 2022
Global military expenditure increased by 3.7 % in 2022 and reached a new record high of $2,240 billion, with the three largest spenders being the U.S., China and Russia, according…
Sudan: Coups, Imperialists and Resistance
January 30, 2022. Update added April 23, 2023 Like all the nations of the Horn of Africa that abut the Red Sea, the main passageway for the transit of Middle…
Secrecy Versus Democracy: New Developments
A government with many secrets is not a democracy What are we to think when governments make every effort to keep their actions secret from their own citizens? We…
High Levels of Distress and Stress in USA Emphasize Need for Linking External and Internal Reform
High and increasing levels of distress and stress in the USA point to the need for integrating internal and external reforms. According to a Federal Reserve Report of 2018 on…
War, What Is It Good For?
I was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global conflict already known as World War II. Though it ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in…
Celebrating and supporting Earth Day
Today April 22 2023, is the 53rd ‘Earth Day’, which was first held on April 22, 1970. Earth Day is celebrated to demonstrate support to environmental protection. LIVING IN HARMONY…
Sophisticated Naval Forces Bombed Nord Stream, Says Danish Navy Veteran
Whoever sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines likely had access to fast-moving underwater drones, one of Denmark’s most “experienced navy divers” told Bloomberg on Thursday. NATO forces trained with these unmanned underwater vehicles…
U.S. Dollar Losing Reserve Status At Stunning Pace, Says Eurizon CEO
Western sanctions against Russia have accelerated the move away from the U.S. dollar worldwide, Stephen Jen, the CEO of London-based asset management company Eurizon, warned on Tuesday. The dollar’s share…
High Costs of US War on Terror Have Not Led to Basic Corrective Actions
The terrible 9/11 attacks led the USA military and foreign policy establishment to launch a prolonged series of military actions in many countries with the stated aim of curbing terrorism…
BRICS To Pass G7 In Economic Power, Says Bloomberg
The BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – is expected to increase their share of the global economy to nearly 35% by 2028, Bloomberg reported on Monday.…
Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers and Skin-Deep Morality
Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. In 2021, an…
Libelled by the Bot: Reputation, Defamation and AI
Cometh the new platform, cometh new actions in law, the fragile litigant ever ready to dash off a writ to those with (preferably) deep pockets. And so, it transpires that…
Obsolete Cold War Attitudes Are Holding Europe Back
Instead, an independent foreign policy is desperately needed—and gaining support. Recently, the United States has been followed by a number of European countries in supporting a cold war policy toward…
Leaks Reveal Reality Behind U.S. Propaganda in Ukraine
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Leaked document predicts a “protracted war beyond 2023.” Image credit: Newsweek The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the leaking of secret…
China Will Be The World Economy’s Biggest Growth Driver In The Next 5 Years, Doubling The U.S. Contribution, Says IMF
China will become the biggest driver of global growth over the next five years and will contribute double what the U.S. adds, according to the International Monetary Fund. Based on…
PC Racist Australia: Voice For Indigenous Australians But Censoring Supporters of Indigenous Palestinians
Politically correct racist (PC racist) Australia ignores a shocking reality: while 60% of Australians rightly support a Constitutionally-enshrined Recognition and Voice for Indigenous Australians, pro-Zionist MPs are advocating adoption by…
80th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
80 years ago the world witnessed one of the most heroic uprisings in the history of the world. Manifesting the spirit of liberation from tyranny, courage scaled heights almost unparalleled…
Will the West Turn Ukraine into a Nuclear Battlefield? Why Depleted Uranium Should Have No Place There
It’s sure to be a blood-soaked spring in Ukraine. Russia’s winter offensive fell far short of Vladimir Putin’s objectives, leaving little doubt that the West’s conveyor belt of weaponry has aided Ukraine’s…
Penny Wong’s World View: AUKUS All The Way
If anyone was expecting a new tilt, a shine of novelty, a flash of independence from Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s address to the National Press Club on April 17,…
Japan Signals an Attitude Shift to the Growing Power of the Global South
In mid-April, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released its Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, its most important guidebook on international affairs. Japan’s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, wrote the foreword, which begins: “The…
Financial Sanctions Could Undermine The Hegemony Of The Dollar, Admits U.S. Treasury Secretary
The role of the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency may actually diminish due to the U.S. using its leverage on the global financial system to pursue its geopolitical…
Bombing Khartoum; CIA’s Latest Attempted Coup in Africa
As I write the Sudanese Air Force is bombing Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, an act of desperation really, because the war launched by the CIA backed coup attempt is…
A Road Paved with Irritations: Macron’s Strategic Third Way
Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to China did not quite go according to plan, though much depends on what was planned to begin with. In one sense, the French President was…
Significant international currency reform taking place without major disruption is good for the world
If a big problem with the potential of causing major disruption gets resolved in a series of steps without causing major disruption, then this is good news for the world.…
The Leaking Republic: The Pentagon’s Take on Information Security
For years, US intelligence officials could hold their allies, notably the British, in contempt for leaking like sinking vessels and harbouring such espionage luminaries as the Cambridge Five. The whirligig…
Fire And Ice
Robert Frost's poem In 1923, Robert Frost wrote a short poem entitled “Fire and Ice”. Here is the poem: Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in…
Spurring an Endless Arms Race – The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars
Why is the Pentagon budget so high? On March 13th, the Biden administration unveiled its $842 billion military budget request for 2024, the largest ask (in today’s dollars) since the peaks of…
The Rise of the South: Can BRICS Weaken the Dominance of the IMF and World Bank?
Who would have expected that the BRICS nations could rise as the potential rival of the G7 countries, the World Bank and the IMF combined? But that once seemingly distant…
Role of Peace Movement in a Divided World
Disturbing events in recent months have led to a deepening divide of the world between two fast consolidating power blocks, one led by the US and the NATO and the…
U.S. Must Stop Encouraging War In Ukraine, Says Lula
Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on Saturday: The U.S. and its allies should focus on promoting peace instead of fueling the Ukraine conflict by arming Kiev. Lula has concluded a state…
Pentagon Leaks Show A Failing US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine
21 year old American Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira has been arrested and charged in the US District Court in Boston for leaking highly classified intelligence documents of the…
Crucial Questions for Europe Related to External Relations and its Place in World
Europe is passing through difficult times when, due to a complex of factors, several uncomfortable issues which could remain under the carpet in normal times are getting blown up in…
WWII & Holocaust Could Never Have Happened Without American Corporations Investing & Joint Venturing with Hitler’s Poor Nazi Germany – Chapter 14
Peal Harbor Surprise Japanese Attack on the US Pacific Fleet and European Colonial Forces in Asia - Germany, Italy and other Axis Countries Declare War on the United States hol On December 7th,…
The Global South Is Done Waiting for the UN to Solve Humanity’s Challenges
Dag Hammarskjöld, the tragic second United Nations secretary general, once said the organization “was created not to lead mankind to heaven but to save humanity from hell.” Of course, this…
Macron’s Warning
French President Emmanuel Macron's recent remarks to journalists on his way home from China visit about the three-way relationship between China, Europe and the U.S. did more to rile his…
Japan Proposes to Dump Radioactive Water into the Pacific
Activists took to the streets today in front of the Japanese Consulate to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the second worst nuclear power accident in history demanding the Japanese government…
Recruiting Children
After more than 20 years of losing wars, recruiting for the U.S. Army is now officially a mess. Last year, that service fell short of its goal by 15,000 recruits,…
Imperialist Powers Use ICC For Judicial Imperialism, Says Communist Party Of South Africa
The South African Communist Party (SACP), in an April statement, asserted that the timing of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant issued against Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued just…
How the War in Ukraine Is Shaking up the Global Arms Industry
The struggles of Russian weapons manufacturers have added to historic shifts in the global arms market. On March 21, 2023, India’s air force confirmed that a major Russian arms delivery would not…
A New Leader’s Big Banking Opportunity to Improve Global Development
Will the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement be able to fulfill their original mission with the arrival of the new bank president Dilma Rousseff? The first event…
At a Time of Increasing Concern Regarding Sanctions, Security Council should Compensate Iraq
There is increasing concern all over the world regarding the increasing and widespread use of economic and related sanctions by some of the richest and most powerful countries, led by…
Stranger in a Strange Land
I wonder how many of you reading this agree with the above? In order to best fit this narrative you have to be someone who dismisses this current economic, financial…
Legalising Same-Sex Marriage – Appeal to Member Countries of G-20 Summit 2023 in India
Hon’ble Members, The logo of the G20 meet in India has a message of ‘one earth, one family, one future’. Lofty idea indeed but pray could LGBTQIA community be permitted…
BRICS Overtakes G7 In Terms Of GDP, Finds Study
BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa — have surpassed the Group of Seven (G7) in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP),…
Finland’s NATO Move Leaves Others to Carry On the “Helsinki Spirit”
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On April 4, 2023, Finland officially became the 31st member of the NATO military alliance. The 830-mile border between Finland and Russia…
UN Vote Condemning Sanctions Represents Strong World Opinion on Their Increasing Misuse
On April 3 a resolution condemning sanctions being imposed increasingly on many countries was approved by 33 votes to 13 in the United Nations Human Rights Council. While the countries…
Will It Never Stop? From Forever War to Eternal War
“It is time,” President Biden announced in April 2021, “to end the forever war” that started with the invasion of Afghanistan soon after the tragic terror attacks on this country on September…
Zionazism: Genocidally Racist Apartheid Israel Is Presently Attacking 5 Countries
Western Mainstream media (MSM) are reporting the Israeli police violence against worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, token rocket responses by Palestinians, and horrendously disproportionate Israeli bombing of Gaza, Lebanon and…
Calculated Misrepresentations: The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Succeeding administrations have a chronic habit of blaming their predecessors. The Biden administration has been most particular on the issue, taking every chance to attack former President Donald Trump for…
Prosecuting Donald Trump
Donald Trump is currently being charged with 34 felonies The State of New York, under the leadership of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr., has arrested the former president,…
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