2022 – Page 14 – Struggle

Does the U.S. chip ban on China amount to a declaration of war in the computer age?

October 30, 2022 Prabir Purkayastha

The United States has gambled big in its latest across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap China and retain its global dominance. From the slogans of globalization and “free trade” of […]

Jimmy Cherizier with sick man in Boston in Sep 2021 photo John Wesley Amady 696x392

Haiti: U.S. disinformation campaign provides pretext as UN military intervention looms

October 30, 2022 Dan Cohen

As a popular uprising engulfs Haiti and threatens to topple the U.S.-backed regime of de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry, Washington is seeking to deploy a military force to target the figure at the storm’s […]

Guinea’s plight lays bare the greed of foreign mining companies in the Sahel

October 30, 2022 Vijay Prashad

On October 20, 2022, in Guinea, a protest organized by the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC) took place. The protesters demanded the ruling military government (the National Committee of Reconciliation and Development, or […]

Demand buried evidence in Mumia’s case be heard

October 29, 2022 Lallan Schoenstein

Protesters rallied in Philadelphia at a Pennsylvania court on Oct. 26, demanding the release of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Protesters inside the court supported his lawyers, Judith Ritter and Samuel Spital. The lawyers argued that […]

Bolivia: Elitist coup attempt in Santa Cruz

October 29, 2022 Angel Guerra Cabrera

The ultra-right-wing governor of the department of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, and his separatist clique have been maintaining an elitist and bosses’ strike against the government of Bolivia since October 21, which has already […]

The sport of marking the enemy

October 29, 2022 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

On Monday, Oct. 24, at noon Twitter users noticed a modification to the tagging policy. The social media platform began tagging a group of public media outlets as “affiliated with the Cuban government” and the […]

The military-industrial media complex strikes again

October 29, 2022 Eve Ottenberg

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 […]

Elon Musk is not a renegade outsider – he’s a massive Pentagon contractor

October 29, 2022 Alan MacLeod

First published May 31, 2022 AUSTIN, TEXAS – Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of Twitter has ruffled many feathers among professional commentators. “Musk is the wrong leader for Twitter’s vital mission,” read one Bloomberg headline. The network also insisted, “Nothing in […]

Alexis Castillo (Alfonso), internationalist fighter in Donbass

October 29, 2022 Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic

An internationalist warrior from Colombia, a member of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic (KPDPR), a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth of the DPR, Alexis Castillo (callsign Alfonso), died […]

2022 10 17 UN Security Council 2 listening to BINUH chief Helen LaLime in session on Haiti by Rick Bajornas 696x464

U.S. tries to bend UN Charter to bless illegal, unwanted invasion

October 28, 2022 Kim Ives

The gloves came off at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Mon., Oct. 17, 202,2 in one of the best bare-knuckle diplomatic throw-downs since the dawn of the new multipolar world on Feb. 24, 2022. […]