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(12 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 1, 2019 China is Saving the Uighurs From Jihadist Indoctrination
The Chinese government's relationship to the Uighurs, and to China's Muslim population in general, has been wildly distorted by the Western propaganda machine.
(45 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 30, 2019 Do Americans Know How Close They Are To Dictatorship?
A war against "terror" would be a war against an enemy that could never be decisively defeated, and that would be portrayed by the government as an overwhelming threat no matter what the reality was.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 7, 2019 The coming U.S. regime change attempt in Bolivia
The political and media establishment throughout the capitalist world is only superficially opposed to the politics of fascistic politicians like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro. Fascism, wherein corporations use the powers of the state to solidify their dominance, is what the capitalist class always turns to when its power is threatened.
(14 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 12, 2019 Counting down to civilization's collapse
sources of false hope let Western capitalist society continue to ignore the primary role that imperialism and militarism have in the climate crisis, to view the capitalist governments as legitimate, and to not try to break away from the philosophy of capitalism and endless growth.
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 11, 2019 As the American Empire Collapses, It Could Launch WW 3
"Stop being so greedy and so selfish. Realize there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion magazines for the latest styles...
(14 comments) SHARE Monday, November 4, 2019 The Fall of the Neoliberal Order is Drastically Accelerating
For the last half century, the capitalist world has existed in a turbo-charged, exaggerated form that leads it towards boom and bust in even more extreme ways than it was in the past.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, December 20, 2019 The 2020s Will Be When America Experiences a Social Breakdown
The United States, like the other parts of the world that have been ravaged by rampant economic inequality and corporate despotism, is headed for a social breakdown.
(18 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 22, 2019 Iran, Hong Kong, and the desperation of a declining U.S. empire
The U.S. empire's global influence projects, especially the ones in Iran and Hong Kong, have a different nature from the ones that were carried out when American power was still in a stable state.
(17 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 11, 2019 A 21st Century Cold War Calls for 21st Century Propaganda
When it became apparent that U.S. global hegemony was being replaced by a multipolar world, the American ruling class decided it would be necessary to restart a 21st century cold war with Russia and China.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 1, 2019 North Korea Shows How a Society Can Heal After Suffering Through Imperialist Violence
North Korea has built a vibrant democracy, one where elections take place every five years as local, provincial, and national candidates from multiple parties are chosen in mass meetings. When there's only one candidate on the ballot, it's because a consensus has already been reached.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 31, 2019 The Hong Kong Protesters are Violent Right-Wing Provocateurs
When people praise the anti-Beijing Hong Kong protests, it's typically vague as to which forms of Chinese oppression that they believe are being rightly resisted.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 22, 2019 Empires Start by Moving Outward"and Finish by Moving Inward
The story of how America became a global superpower is one in which a group of ambitious and egotistical men rationalized the implementation of a governing model that would lead to massive death and suffering.
SHARE Thursday, June 20, 2019 Why Leftists Should Leave The Democratic Socialists of America
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
Vladimir Lenin
SHARE Monday, September 23, 2019 The global socialist movement needs Juche
The task of building socialism is a science. To figure out how to construct their societies, the leaders of the existing socialist states have let their actions be guided by dialectical materialism, which is the study of objectively assessing one's material conditions so that the correct steps can be applied throughout a socialist project.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 28, 2019 Late-Stage Capitalism is Creating a New Kind of Global Despotism
The power structure that now dominates the globe is a logical extension of the project for colonizing Africa, Oceania, and the Americas that the European imperialist powers began over five centuries ago.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 25, 2019 Guaido Was a Bust, But U.S. Attacks on Venezuela Will Continue
Over the span of only a few months, beginning roughly in January, the illegal U.S.-backed coup that the U.S. has attempted to activate through Juan Guaido and other elements of Venezuela's majority white and well-to-do right-wing opposition has gone from "serious threat" to "complete debacle".
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 22, 2019 To the capitalist ruling class, communism will always be evil
Anti-communism isn't about human rights, at least not human rights as a socialist would define them. Capitalists and imperialists vilify countries like China because they don't like that these countries have challenged the "rights" to exploit and oppress.
SHARE Sunday, August 4, 2019 America's Fascist Paramilitaries Are Rising
In a fascist shift, the state always forms paramilitary groups so that political violence can be carried out without the government being held accountable for it. It's predictable that when this process started to happen in America, our version of Hitler's Brownshirts and Mussolini's Blackshirts would originate from America's instruments of imperialism.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, May 31, 2019 Now That Media Coverage Is Turning In Assange's Favor, We Have A Chance To Free Him
"I am defenceless and am counting on you and others of good character to save my life. The days when I could read and speak and organise to defend myself, my ideals and my people are over until I am free. Everyone else must take my place."---Julian Assange
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 12, 2019 The War on Immigrants and the Rejection of Reality
To maintain their worldview in the face of the catastrophes that capitalism and imperialism have created, the world's reactionaries have launched a war against the people who've been forced to migrate in the face of climate change and U.S.-created destabilization.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 12, 2019 Why Joining The Communist Movement Is The Most Sensible Option For Those On The Left
Vote for Sanders in 2020 if you like, but it's time for the American left to move towards where it can truly succeed. It's time to leave Democratic Party appendages like the Democratic Socialists of America, and join communist revolutionary organizations like the Workers World Party.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 18, 2019 The Imperialist Motives Behind Sanders' Attacks on Chavismo
Many Americans have gravitated towards Sanders simply out of the desire to attain adequate living standards, which his policies would indeed create for them. What anti-imperialists must do is shatter the illusion that Sanders' agenda of bettering life for Americans equates to an agenda of bettering life for the world's colonized people, which Sanders has shown he doesn't want to do.