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Kim Jong-Un, “Juche-oriented socialism,” and the DPRK in 2018

NOVANEWS Photograph of Kim Jong Un Making His New Year Address​​, via dprktoday.com. As you may know, Kim Jong-Un (called Kim in the rest of this article), the duly-elected chief of state of People’s Korea, or the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) gave a New Year’s address for Juche 107 (2018), on January 1, as he does every year. The bourgeois media, at least in the murderous empire, extracted only a certain number of elements from the speech, even though a rough translated version of the whole speech was available as of January 1st, only relying on a partial translation by the Associated Press. While PressTV, an Iranian state media outlet, and the RT, the Russian state outlet that liberals scream about, seemed to just takefrom Western media accounts, the bourgeois media was i...
Haiti, USA

Trump “Shitholes,” and White Supremacy

NOVANEWS Trump “Shitholes,” and White Supremacy: Building Resistance on 8th Anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake. My Family and I Survived. With his analogy between Black people and feces, Trump has once again shown the world his commitment to wickedness, vulgarity, and racism. By Jesse Hagopia Common Dreams   Eight years ago today, my family and I survived the earthquake in Haiti. I had been laid off from my teaching job that year in the wake of the great recession and so I had joined my wife, with our one-year-old son, on her work trip to Haiti where she was conducting trainings on HIV. In the immediate aftermath of the quake, our hotel became a makeshift clinic. One of the hotel guests, an emergency medical technician, quickly assembled a triage and treatment area in the circ...