By Stephen Gowans July 9, 2022 Below is a quick summary of a July 8 speech on the war in Ukraine by Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), delivered to a conclave of communist parties from Greece, Mexico, Spain, and Turkey. Earlier this year, Koutsoumbas’s party initiated a statement on the … Continue reading The Last True Communist →
[Abby Martin gives talk at CAM 44, a celebration and fundraiser for CovertAction Magazine. Below is the text of her […]
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On June 24th, at the think tank, the Hudson Institute, U.S. President Trump’s CIA chief and Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, delivered a 5,000+-word speech, suggesting that America has an essentially God-assigned mission to control the world, so as to preserve freedom and democracy for everybody, and that victory against Russia and China is therefore obligatory for the United States[Read More...]
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. — Hunter S. Thompson, “September,” Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72, p. 413. Imagine, just how programmed […]
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“Capitalism can pursue no other policy than that of imperialism.” Rudolph Hilferding “Imperialism is an inevitable accompaniment of capitalist development.” Nikolai Bukharin “Colonial politics and imperialism are … the inevitable consequences of the very foundations of capitalism.” V.I. Lenin By Stephen Gowans June 18, 2022 Blaming the war in Ukraine on Russian aggression or, alternatively, … Continue reading The Real Cause of the War in Ukraine: Capitalism →
LeRoy Clarke (Trinidad and Tobago), Now, 1970. This past week, as part of its policy to dominate the American hemisphere, the United States government organised the 9th Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. US President Joe Biden made it clear early on that three countries in the hemisphere (Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) would not […]
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The U.S. sought to bolster its support in Asia by reassuring nations they do not need to join a coalition against China, drawing a stark contrast with Beijing’s threats to defend its interests with military force, said Bloomberg. The Bloomberg report — US Makes Asia Inroads by Playing Down Need to Oppose China — said on June 13: U.S. Defense[Read More...]
An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana. In April 2018, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, said that Ghana has “not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the United States of America.” His comments came after Ghana’s parliament had ratified a new defense cooperation agreement with the[Read More...]
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Cashless & cardless society? Yahoo News reports that soon we may be able to “pay with a smile”. The cashless society has been on …
Eric Zuesse The United States Government is now actively backing the Indian Government’s demand that China not build a bridge in China that would cross from one side to the other of a lake that is half in China and half in India. This bridge would be crossing a portion of that lake that’s around […]
