Around the world
Their oligarchs and ours
Jeff Bezos’ $500 million yacht was a hot news item back in February. The ship was so large that in order to move it from a Dutch shipyard a bridge in Rotterdam would have to […]
Author: Stephen Millies
Cuba
How socialist Cuba helped Ukrainian children
The United States Congress just cut $15.6 billion in coronavirus aid from a budget bill. It did so to ship nearly $14 billion in weapons and other war supplies to Ukraine. Other NATO countries have […]
In the U.S.
GM and Intel aren’t heroes
President Biden wants to be seen as a dragon slayer of wealthy Russian oligarchs. But he praised immensely richer and more powerful U.S. oligarchs in his March 1 State of the Union speech. While conducting […]
In the U.S.
Stop the landlord attack!
Rents are going through the roof while a tidal wave of evictions has begun. Average rents increased by 14% last year across the United States. Rents went up in Austin, Texas, by 40%, while in […]
In the U.S.
President Zelensky and Mayor Goode
While landlords are raising rents by 40%, the capitalist media wants you to hate Russia. They are trying to turn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into a folk hero. Zelensky is a professional clown. He played […]
U.S. / NATO war
A century of lies for war, about Russia
Before the planes can drop the bombs, capitalist newspapers and TV networks have to spread the lies. In 1898, U.S. banksters wanted to grab Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines from Spain. They used the […]
Fight racism
Racism + COVID = death
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared that “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” The COVID-19 pandemic is more proof Dr. King was right. Death rates […]
Labor and strikes
Railroad workers under attack
A common sign in sweatshops back in 1900 was “If you don’t come on Sunday, don’t come on Monday.” At the Sparrows Point steel mill outside Baltimore, employees worked 84 hours a week. Their only […]
Fight racism
Murder and voting rights
The Moore home after the bomb explosion Photo: Moore Cultural ComplexHarriette Moore and Harry T. Moore died for the right to vote. The Ku Klux Klan bombed their Mims, Florida, home on Christmas Day in […]
In the U.S.
Blaming the victims: The Bronx fire tragedy wasn’t an accident
Seventeen people died in the Jan. 9 apartment building fire that broke out in the Bronx, New York. Eight of those killed were children. Ousmane Konteh was just 2 years old when he perished. Haouwa […]