In the U.S.
Jail Trump for racism and war crimes
The whole world witnessed the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election. So why did it take two and a half years to finally indict […]
In the U.S.
In the U.S.
Oppenheimer, war criminal
“I don’t think that your father ever met Oppenheimer,” my mother told me the other day. I can’t ask my father, since he died last year, at 90 years of age. My father was a […]
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NYC transit fares have risen 58 times since 1948
Transit and rent hikes are wholesale robberies The Metropolitan Transportation Agency is raising the fare on New York City’s buses and subways to $2.90 on Aug. 20. Transit fares are also going up in the […]
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Artificial intelligence and the class struggle
Since the earliest days of the industrial revolution, workers have fought company owners over their use of automated machinery to step up the pace of exploitation. “Programmable” looms in textile mills allowed owners to hire […]
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JoAnn Watson, beloved Detroit leader, dies
Cuba lost a good friend on July 10 when the Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson joined the ancestors. Watson originated the call “Doctors for Detroit” with the late Rev. Lucius Walker, founder of the Interreligious Foundation […]
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Tampa 5 solidarity: ‘Protesting is not a crime’
New Yorkers answered the call from Students for a Democratic Society for a national day of action for the Tampa 5 on July 12. They gathered during the evening rush hour outside New York City […]
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The Supreme Court has no compassion for working-class families
The following was presented as part of a discussion of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on affirmative action, LGBTQ+ rights, and student loans. The Court outlawed affirmative action against racism, endorsed discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, […]
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Report shows how military-industrial complex sets media narrative on Ukraine
The Quincy Institute—whose own start-up funding came mainly from George Soros and Charles Koch—looked at 11 months of Ukraine War coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, from March 1, 2022, through January 31, 2023, and […]
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The secrets that the Pentagon Papers didn’t reveal
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 […]