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Haiti, USA

No U.S. intervention in Haiti!

BY ASHLEY SMITH The Battle of Vertières was the final battle of the Haitian Revolution that overthrew France’s colonial slavocracy and established Haiti as a free Black republic. Photo credit: Cap-Haitien, Wikipedia Commons. Once again, the U.S. and other imperialist powers are threatening military intervention to impose “order” on Haiti’s spiraling economic, social, and political crises. They claim they are responding to the call for international forces from Haiti’s de facto prime minister and president, Ariel Henry, to repress gangs blocking access to gas and water terminals in Port-au-Prince. But Henry does not represent the Haitian people. He was not elected, but selected to be president by the U.S. Henry only retains power based on Washington’s support and is opposed by...

A Deficit Spending Scam Destroyed UK’s Prime Minister…Who’s Next?

4Nov

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Politics, United Kingdom

A Deficit Spending Scam Destroyed UK’s Prime Minister…Who’s Next?

BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph Source: Policy Exchange – CC BY 2.0 With its disguises as “high finance” for the mystified and “Keynesian fiscal policy” for those “in the know,” deficit spending by the government was quite a successful scam for a long while. When the UK’s ex-prime minister opened her new government in September, Liz Truss followed tradition by trying to run the oft-used scam again. But this time it did not work. Eventually, even successful scams stop working. Its failure became hers but also her party’s, the Conservatives.’ Neither of them understood the scam’s limits. Perhaps its disguises had worked best on those who repeated them most in thought and word. In its UK version, the deficit spending scam entailed the Conservative (but also some Labor) gover...

Revolutionary Marxism vs. Chomsky: Reflections on a Recent Interview

4Nov

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Literature

Revolutionary Marxism vs. Chomsky: Reflections on a Recent Interview

BY PAUL STREET Recently The Nation published an interview with the great left intellectual Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian that first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Below I write up some critical reflections expanded from my notes in the margins of my print-off of this interview. They are I hope instructive on some of what distinguishes a modestly accomplished revolutionary Marxist (myself) from a legendary left thinker who identifies as a workerist left anarchist and tends towards social democratic reform in real world/real time politics. There is much in the interview that I agree with, of course, and I was struck (as always) by the precision and eloquence of Noam’s prose, reflections of a magnificent mind at work. For what’s it’s worth, it has l...

The Military Industrial Media Complex Strikes Again

4Nov

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USA

The Military Industrial Media Complex Strikes Again

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison – Public Domain Tens of thousands protested against the skyrocketing cost of living and against Macron in France October 16, led by left-wing politician Jean Luc Melenchon, but there were few front page or top-of-the hour headlines in the U.S. Huge protests occurred in Rome the same day to demand an end to Italy’s involvement in NATO, but no coverage on the west side of the Atlantic. Thousands protesting in Paris October 22 against NATO, but little notice in North America. Massive protests against NATO and inflation due to sanctions on Russian energy in France, Germany and Austria in September, but little news of it here in the heart of the empire. German police beat citizens protesting en...

The Long, Indecisive War in Ukraine is Reshaping the Political World Map

4Nov

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Ukraine

The Long, Indecisive War in Ukraine is Reshaping the Political World Map

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photo by Nick Tsybenko “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time,” British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey famously remarked to a friend in August 1914. He was, of course, dead right about the longevity of the First World War, which did not end decisively in 1918 but went on sparking crises and wars up to 1939. The Second World War ended with the total defeat of Germany and produced a frozen peace in Europe which largely stayed in place, with the exception of the break up of Yugoslavia, for 77 years, until the Russian invasion of Ukraine this year. The Ukraine war is the third of these great pan-continental conflicts sucking in the rest of Europe and the US. Most European states are not directly invol...

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Environment

Can the Climate be Restored?

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Li-An Lim. A fresh approach to fixing climate change/global warming is outlined in a new book: Climate Restoration, which focuses on how the climate can be restored. Indeed, the book is full of fascinating details, meriting a closer look and critique (Peter Fiekowsky and Carole Douglis, Climate Restoration, Rivertowns Books, 2022). But first: The words climate change and global warming have become imbedded in the fabric of society so much so that the attendant dangers become a nonevent in people’s minds. Over time, they become comfortable with their own personal knowledge of what it means. That’s a problem because studies suggest that only a tiny fraction of people truly understand the real science and inherent da...

Rishi Sunak and Britain’s Post-Brexit Fairy Tales

4Nov

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United Kingdom

Rishi Sunak and Britain’s Post-Brexit Fairy Tales

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Rory Arnold / No10 Downing Street – OGL 3 Much mirth is expressed over President Joe Biden mispronouncing the new Prime Minister’s name as “Rashee Sanook”. Many see this as showing how the merry-go-round of British leaders has confused the rest of the world. Some take up the opportunity to sideswipe Biden, saying that he was pretty confused to begin with. I doubt if it matters that much: world leaders tend to know surprisingly little about allied and hostile states because they single-mindedly focus on their own domestic politics. Biden’s attention will be fixed these days on the midterm congressional elections and his own prospects in the presidential election of 2024. More important for Rishi Sunak will be the real stand...

3Nov

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China, USA

Biden’s Obsession With China

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State from United States – Public Domain The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 mandated that the White House produce for the Congress an annual report on its national security vision. The National Security Strategy (NSS) is supposed to discuss all facets of U.S. power that can achieve the nation’s security goals. The NSS must discuss U.S. commitments and objectives, along with defense capabilities to deter threats and implement plans. For the most part, the report is a boilerplate document. The Trump administration ignored the requirement for four years, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine led to delays in producing President Biden’s first NSS. The report that was ...

3Nov

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Russia, Ukraine

Infrastructure Wars

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt – Public Domain In 1944, a V-2 rocket blew up my parents’ house in St John’s Wood in London, reducing it to a heap of ruins. Fortunately for my mother and father – and for me – they were both out at the time. I still have the telegram which my mother, Patricia Cockburn, who was safely in Cumbria, sent to her mother. It begins: “I hope you are alright. My house destroyed…” As a child, I learned that the V-2 explosion had vaporised much of the furniture in the St John’s Wood house, but a small round marble table had survived which I could see in the front room. It was not unscathed and had a great scar across its surface where the blast had ripped out the yellow, red and green stone inlay. I used to run my fingers dow...

Why Inflation is Not the Main Issue in the Elections

3Nov

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Politics, USA

Why Inflation is Not the Main Issue in the Elections

BY DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: Photo by Phil Scroggs The media have been obsessed with inflation for the last year and a half, reporting as though this is the only economic issue that matters to people. In the real world, people have other things to worry about, like jobs. Jobs are a really big deal for most people since it is hard to get by if you do not have one. Fortunately for the American people, the economy has created almost 10 million jobs since President Biden took office, a record pace of job creation. The unemployment rate has fallen to 3.5 percent, reaching the lowest point in a half-century. Having a job is only part of the story, people want to be able to have jobs with decent pay, where their bosses treat them with respect. We have a very long way to ...