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29Apr

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Ukraine

Ukraine: From coup d’état to war

A brief history of Ukraine from 1991 til today, which aims to fill in a few of the gaping holes in the western corporate media narrative. Mario Souza Subscribe to our channel Ukraine’s notorious Azov battalion is just one of many openly fascist militias in the country, all of which are connected both to the Ukrainian coup government and to the CIA. Their supremacist ideology is perfect preparation for fighting against Russians, whether inside or outside the territory of the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine. That is why the ‘tradition’ of Ukrainian nazism was carefully kept alive by imperialist sponsors of Ukrainian exiled communities from the end of WW2 until the 1990s, when it could be reintroduced on the ground in the conditions of post-Soviet economic collapse and ...

29Apr

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Human Destiny in Ukraine

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: МВС України – CC BY 4.0 To scale the pinnacles of corporate, political or military power in the United States requires certain rigid deficiencies of character, specifically the absence of compassion, decency and humanity. In their personal lives, powerful individuals may possess these qualities, but as an elite class, they lack them utterly. How else to explain the abandoned cruelty of U.S. foreign policy since 1945, the wars, with napalm and Agent Orange in Vietnam, depleted uranium and white phosphorus in Iraq, the massive bombing campaigns that destroyed 85 percent of all buildings in Korea, to say nothing of the deliberate destruction of Iraq and Vietnam, the millions upon millions of dead all over the planet, the regime changes, sett...

Some Congress Members Need to Sit Down and Shut Up

29Apr

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USA

Some Congress Members Need to Sit Down and Shut Up

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Alan Levine – CC BY 2.0 Not too long ago, senator Marco “Bring Back Aerial Dogfights” Rubio took to the airwaves to inform the American people that their military must send fighter jets to escort drones near Russia’s border. About the same time as Rubio’s idiotic recipe for global nuclear annihilation, senator Tom “Invade Mexico!” Cotton lectured us on the necessity of sending MORE drones to Russian airspace, after those wily Slavic pilots disposed of one spying on Crimea. He followed up this imbecilic escalatory scheme with a proclamation that the U.S. should wage war on Mexico or on its drug cartels, the distinction was not too clear. Representative Marjorie “Jewish Space Lasers” Taylor Greene couldn’t keep quiet about that either. She ...

A Free Press in Peril: The Assange Case Drags on

28Apr

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Human Rights, United Kingdom, USA

A Free Press in Peril: The Assange Case Drags on

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Alisdare Hickson – CC BY-SA 4.0 Years pass and Julian Assange languishes in a dungeon. His crime? Well, he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, but he had the intolerable courage to embarrass the U.S. military and national security state, by reporting on how American soldiers murdered Iraqis for sport. This was a truth the pentagon never wanted aired to the world. But Assange did just that. His collaborator, Chelsea Manning, was instantly clapped into prison and tortured until she attempted suicide. The viciousness with which the so-called justice system pursued her even involved a de facto double jeopardy prosecution. Meanwhile Assange hid out in the Ecuadorian embassy for seven years in London, where he had been granted asyl...

A Socialist Survival Tactic: Cuba’s Worker Parliaments

28Apr

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Cuba

A Socialist Survival Tactic: Cuba’s Worker Parliaments

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Keith Ruffles – CC BY 3.0 Defending itself from the extremely hostile bully to the north is old hat and a constant activity for Cuba. This was especially so, after the collapse of the USSR and European socialism roughly 35 years ago nearly crushed Cuba, which immediately lost its chief trading partners, while the U.S. blockade strangled it. Forced to turn inward, Cuba strove to improve its productivity and workforce, without damaging the twin foundations of the revolution, education and health care. That it did so, that this small, besieged nation turned a dangerous even deadly situation around, happened thanks to the efforts of committed revolutionaries like Pedro Ross, who helped found the workers’ parliaments – specifically to save the...

A Dangerous Fishing Expedition: The Select Committee on China

28Apr

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China, USA

A Dangerous Fishing Expedition: The Select Committee on China

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy – Public Domain Riled up against China, GOP congressmembers have long felt that Washington’s new cold war needed a special venue. So as soon as the baton passed to Republicans in the House, they set up a select committee on China. This is majority leader Kevin “Trump’s the Man” McCarthy’s baby, and if it sounds to you like a forum for much grandstanding and frothing about the communist menace, the yellow peril and the need to beef up the FBI, CIA, DIA and NSA, so they can hunt down China’s spies from the halls of government to the groves of academe – “they’re everywhere” supposedly – you may be onto something. I’m not sure what that something is, but it’s a good bet it ends with U.S. navy aircraft carriers s...

Did Washington Boost Another South American Coup?

28Apr

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USA

Did Washington Boost Another South American Coup?

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Braian Reyna Guerrero – CC BY 2.0 The U.S. tyranny of monopoly capital has long preferred to deal with fascist governments abroad, specifically in the Global South. American oligarchs’ foreign fascist sycophants are so much more malleable than democratic representatives; they don’t even have to be told what to do because they know. It’s in their DNA. From murdering peasants to tossing leftists out of helicopters during flight, to privatizing anything in the public domain to stuffing their offshore bank accounts with cash, to financing death squads to doing the bidding, whatever it may be, of Washington bigwigs, foreign fascists all read from the same script, and nowhere is their chorus more uniform than in Latin America. That’s because de...

As American Life Expectancy Plunges, Political Bigwigs Stay Busy Not Noticing

28Apr

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As American Life Expectancy Plunges, Political Bigwigs Stay Busy Not Noticing

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Life expectancy in the U.S. plummets down, down, down, driven chiefly by the multitudinous gun deaths of children. Amurica outstrips the world with its hordes of kids shot to death, whose blood hydrates the idiocy of a second amendment deformed into pimping for gun manufacturers and their great friend, the currently beleaguered National Rifle Association. The NRA and its fans love to yammer about “responsible” gun owners. Well, we had three recent grisly demonstrations in just one week of how such gun owners behave toward young people: 16-year-old Ralph Yarl shot and injured in Kansas City, Missouri, when he went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings. This was followed a few days later by 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis shot dead...

28Apr

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USA

May Day and Abolition

BY PETER LINEBAUGH Image Source: The Haymarket Riot – Harper’s Weekly – Public Domain “Murther, murther, murther, murther …” shouted Free-born John Lilburne from prison. “M’aidez, m’aidez,” says the international distress signal. Murder is the crime, and help is the need. That is the dynamic of the day, May Day. It’s methodology therefore requires answers to two questions: Who? Whom? We remember los martiros, that is the martyrs who were hanged for their support of the Eight Hour Day and the police riot at Haymarket, Chicago. That struggle commenced on May 1st 1886. Who? Whom? The bosses hanged the workers. Their names were August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel. Their hanging was judicial murder or state sponsored terror. “The day...

28Apr

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USA

Roaming Charges: Nipped and Tuckered

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR + Tucker Carlson’s transformation from the brattish scion of a “Deep State” diplomat and former head of Voice of America to a bow-tie-wearing talk show smart-aleck into the white working-class tribune of Fox Populi is one of the greatest acts of political crossdressing in American history. + As in all these cases, Tucker’s offense wasn’t his racism or lies or on-air libels but threatening the bottom-line of the Boss. There are many more Tuckers being test-driven now in Rupert’s Body Shop. + When Tucker was asked the pressing question of our time, “What is a woman?” He apparently answered with the C-word. + We are meant to believe that the man who built his media empire by running photos of topless women (many of them barely legal teenagers) on pag...