Author: Stephen Millies

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Cuba

How Cuba is fighting back against the U.S. blockade

July 21, 2023 Stephen Millies
Ever since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, the United States bankster government has been trying to strangle it. Wall Street’s biggest weapon is a cruel economic blockade that has cost socialist Cuba over $150 […]
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Around the world

Elliot Abrams and the murdered children of El Mozote

July 19, 2023 Stephen Millies
Elliot Abrams oversaw death squads in Central America and was convicted of lying to Congress. So why did President Joe Biden appoint this evil war criminal to the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy? Abrams […]
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Around the world

Haiti and Bastille Day

July 14, 2023 Stephen Millies
July 14 is Bastille Day. On that date in 1789 tens of thousands of poor people in Paris attacked a hated prison called the Bastille and began the French Revolution. The continual intervention of poor […]
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In the U.S.

The secrets that the Pentagon Papers didn’t reveal

July 5, 2023 Stephen Millies
The death of Daniel Ellsberg on June 16 should be a reminder that every big business war requires wholesale lying. In 1971 it was Ellsberg, along with Anthony Russo, who brought the Pentagon Papers into […]
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Fight racism

Slavery and the fourth of you lie

July 4, 2023 Stephen Millies
The Declaration of Independence is Philadelphia’s proudest claim to fame. It was written by the Virginia slave master and future U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson, who sold his own flesh and blood — the product of […]
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Cuba

New York City says NO! to the U.S. blockade of Cuba

June 28, 2023 Stephen Millies
The New York City Council unanimously approved a resolution on June 22 calling for an end to the cruel U.S. economic blockade of Cuba. The next day a news conference was held in front of […]
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In the U.S.

Good riddance to Pat Robertson: Preacher of bigotry came from the ruling class

June 25, 2023 Stephen Millies
Does anyone care that hate preacher Pat Robertson croaked on June 8? Those inheriting his $100 million fortune must have been waiting for the 93-year-old to die.  The loot came from Robertson’s broadcasting empire, African […]
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Fight racism

‘What do we want? Reparations!’: Celebrating Juneteenth in Newark, N.J.

June 21, 2023 Stephen Millies
Over a hundred people rallied on Juneteenth in Newark, New Jersey, to demand reparations. The June 19 march and rally was organized by the People’s Organization for Progress. People gathered at Market and Springfield avenues. […]
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In the U.S.

The Rosenbergs were heroes

June 19, 2023 Stephen Millies
70th anniversary of their execution In his funeral eulogy for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, W.E.B. Du Bois declared, “They died because they would not lie.” The Rosenbergs were executed by the U.S. government on Juneteenth, […]
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Fight racism

They stole us, they sold us, they owe us: Reparations must be paid!

June 7, 2023 Stephen Millies
The wealthy and powerful in New York are trying to sideline a state reparations bill. To protest and stop this sabotage, a powerful news conference was held in front of the African Burial Ground in […]