A poetry submission for the CP100 Series.
I became a Communist in the summer of 2019,
not through my reading of Marx, Engels, Connolly, or Lenin,
but by sitting in the humid air of a Mississippi Justice Court,
keeping tally as tenants, one-by-one, lost their home
to their landlord’s uncontested petition for
“immediate possession of the premises.”Read More »
When the U.S. instigates its so called ‘color revolutions’, the transatlantic main stream media are usually supportive. But the support is rarely as extreme as the extraordinary one the New York Times gives to the rioters in Hong Kong.
For the timeline we check with Wikipedia on the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests:Read More »
Slavery is an issue in politics in the United States. A new bill on the issue is in the U.S. Congress. Activists have been calling for reparations for years. In 2016, a UN panel declared that the U.S. owed black Americans reparations because of slavery and its link to injustices today in America.
In late-June, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held the first hearing in a decade on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. Read More »
Behind much opposition violence stood US regime-change NGOs.
“Nicaragua’s social and economic achievements and its open rejection of imperialism present the classic ‘threat of a good example.’”
Live from Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup? A Readeris a thoughtful, multifaceted collection of essays, eyewitness accounts, interviews and news clips of last year’s US-backed regime-change war against Nicaragua. Precisely because of its importance, quality and scope, this 270-page e-book will neither be acknowledged nor reviewed in the corporate media. The book is offered free by Alliance for Global Justice (afgj.org ) as an ebook and aPDF .
The extended heat wave afflicting India has surpassed 50⁰C (122 degrees Fahrenheit), even worse than the terrible scorcher that was assessed “the 5thdeadliest on record” and claimed thousands of lives in 2015.1 Matters could get even worse, the city of Chennai has almost run out of water, putting 10 million lives at risk.2 South-eastern Africa has been hit by an unprecedented series of devastating cyclones, affecting millions of people.3 The global North is beginning to feel the crisis too. Forest fires are increasing across North America and Australia. The late June heat wave across continental Europe pushed temperatures in France over 45⁰C, and triggered a wildfire in Catalonia, which authorities believe started when a pile of manure self-ignited.4 The **** really has hit the fan.Read More »
Tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets across Sudan today, as mass demonstrations continue against the shooting of school students in the North Kordofan State on Monday.
In the meantime, talks between a section of the opposition alliance and the military junta, which were set to resume on Tuesday, were put on hold. The leaders of this alliance, which is known as the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF), visited North Kordofan’s capital city of El Obeid to express their condolences to the families of the victims.
U.S. high-level officials are seeking support from a number of Latin American right-wing governments for Trump’s new destabilization strategy.
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton and the U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will attend a Lima Group meeting next week to consolidate the support of the Latin American right-wing governments to continue their“blockade or quarantine” strategy whereby President Donald Trump seeks to oust Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro out of power .
In less than a month, the United States air raids in our Maiquetía Flight Information Region (FIR) have multiplied, following a pattern that is obviously very worrying. The routes described by its EP-3 Ares II aircraft are revealing, taking into account the nature of this type of aircraft.
The EP-3 Aries II is a signal intelligence reconnaissance aircraft, and they would be able to provide fleet commanders and theaters of US operations, in the event of an aggression, real-time information on our radar (frequencies, range, location), aerial devices (flight identification, threat characterization, trajectory, speed, height) and frequency bands of military and civil communications for electronic radio interference actions.Read More »
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