(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 4, 2017
Venezuela Crisis: the US Wants "Its" Country Back What is taking place in Venezuela is an attempt at counter-revolution. Washington wants "its" country back, which is why it is providing both overt and covert support to an opposition determined to return the country to its previous status as a wholly owned subsidiary of the United States.

SHARE        Saturday, July 29, 2017
Trump's Hezbollah Gaff Was No Gaff Though tempting to ascribe Trump's seemingly bizarre statement lumping Hezbollah in the same box as ISIS and Al Qaeda to a gaff, this would be a mistake. Along with Syria and Iran, Hezbollah forms an axis of resistance in the region not only to Salafi-jihadi terrorism but also US hegemony. Trump's statement should be seen and treated in this light.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 25, 2017
Trump's Attack on Cuba Whereas the US sends missiles and Marines to poor countries in order to kill their people, Cuba sends medicines and doctors to heal them. It marks the difference between a culture of death and a culture of life, between cultural values of oppression and domination and cultural values of solidarity and internationalism.

(6 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 17, 2017
Grenfell is a Monument to Tory Britain The hollowing out of the state, deregulation, the near free rein accorded to property developers and private landlords, all at the expense of people's well-being and safety, is tantamount to a crime committed by the rich people who govern us in the interests of other rich people. Don't politicize the Grenfell Fire, they tell us. Are they serious? Are they having a laugh? This event is verily dripping in politics.

(6 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 24, 2017
London and the Dreary Ritual of Terrorist Attacks The idea that you can set fire to countries in the Middle East, collapse their societies and traumatize entire populations, sowing carnage on a biblical scale, and not expect any reaction in the form of blowback, is utterly insane.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Scottish Independence, Round Two: Let It Come! The stakes involved are higher than they were in 2014. They involve the question of whether we should be offering the hand of friendship to migrants and refugees or the fist of fury; defending multiculturalism and diversity or abandoning them; and ultimately the choice between outward-looking Scottish internationalism or backward-looking British nationalism.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 6, 2017
In Defense of Multiculturalism The working class is not a product of race, religion, culture or creed. Multiculturalism embraces the working class of our time, and as such it provides the locus of the only potential resistance that offers hope of a desperately needed alternative to either the nativist bigotry of Trump or the Clintonian liberalism that paved the way for Trump.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Firestarter: the Unwelcome Return of Tony Blair Tony Blair's every public appearance and utterance is an insult to the millions of men, women, and children in Iraq who were slaughtered as a result of the brutal and illegal imperialist war he unleashed in conjunction with Washington in 2003. It reminds us that their cry for justice from the grave is one that is yet to be heard.

(30 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 8, 2017
"You Think Our Country's So Innocent?" Trump's "Truth Bomb" While nobody should be under any illusions when it comes to Donald Trump as the reincarnation of Hugo Chavez, he has revealed a propensity for dropping the odd "truth bomb" here and there, much to chagrin of conservative and liberal commentators alike.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Muslim Bans, White Supremacy and Fascism in Our Time Trump's first two weeks in office have been the most tempestuous of any president in US history. No sooner did he enter the Oval Office than executive orders started flying off his desk with the alacrity of a man intent on reshaping an entire country and world with the stroke of his pen. But in the process of doing he has cultivated a mass movement across America in resistance to his presidency.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 23, 2017
Trump's Inauguration: Hail Caesar! Donald Trump has unleashed ugly anti-migrant and anti-minority sentiment in the land. It is why despite making references to uniting the country during his inauguration speech Donald Trump begins his time in office as possibly the most divisive American president since Abraham Lincoln.

SHARE        Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Israel is a Rogue State Rather than a state operating in accordance with international law and diplomatic norms, Israel increasingly evinces the character of a rogue state, making up its own rules and norms as it goes along. We are talking here about a country that believes it can act with impunity.

(10 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Anti-Russian Hysteria in Washington Is a Byproduct of Imperial Decline Sanders was denied the nomination by a Democratic Party machine that supported Hillary Clinton from the outset, and which approached the presidential election as courtiers at a coronation. It is their inability to deal with Clinton's defeat at the hands of a billionaire reality TV star with no prior political experience that lies at the root of the current crisis.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 17, 2016
Moral Quicksand: Samantha Power's Temper Tantrum What stood out most during the verbal broadside unleashed by Washington's ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, at her Iranian, Syrian and Russian counterparts over the fighting in Aleppo, was her ability to do so with a straight face. Being lectured to by a representative of Washington on human rights violations and war crimes is like being told to sit up straight by the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

(14 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 27, 2016
Fidel Castro's revolutionary life and legacy Such is the legacy that Fidel leaves behind; it is impossible to fully comprehend the sheer magnitude of the role he played in breaking the chains of millions across the Third World, both literally and figuratively, in defiance of the racist conceit of apologists for imperialism.

SHARE        Sunday, November 20, 2016
Putin's 2015 UN speech on "multipolar world" coming to fruition The 2015 speech Putin proceeded to deliver to the delegates in attendance, along with an expectant world via the international media, was tantamount to announcing the birth of a multipolar world, one in which Washington would no longer enjoy the uncontested primacy and hegemony it had since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 13, 2016
Trump, Brexit and the Collapse of the Liberal Order Donald Trump and Brexit are symptoms of the rise of anti-politics in response to the massive inequality that has engulfed both British and US society in recent years. Far too much wealth is now owned by far two few, with the result that people are angry and in no mind to continue to support a status quo widely regarded as corrupt and hopelessly compromised by its support for a corporate elite and vested interests.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 23, 2016
Washington's game of good terrorists vs bad terrorists The conflict in Syria, it bears repeating, has never been about democracy in the eyes of Washington. Instead, it is about domination, about reshaping the region according to strategic objectives that pre-date the conflict. The Assad government had long been considered a key obstacle in this regard.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Clinton vs. Trump: a Zero-Sum Game With few exceptions media coverage has been on Trump, depicting him as an out of control nut who would be dangerous for the country. In truth it is Hillary Clinton, with her penchant for war and the destruction of Arab countries, who is far more dangerous -- not only for the people of the United States but a world grown weary of US hegemony.

(9 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 2, 2016
9/11 and the Saudis -- When Will the Hypocrisy End? The 9/11 families and a US Congress that dare not defy them, given the emblematic and iconic status of 9/11 within the country, have with this vote punctured this cozy relationship. For many it is something long overdue. For justice to be truly just, there has to be enough to go round.