The People vs. Petrocracy
BY STAN COX On Time by Priti Gulati Cox. The United States is moving fast on climate change—in the wrong direction. The Energy Information Agency forecasts that by 2023, the nation will set a new annual record for […]
Julian Assange Is Enduring Unbearable Persecution for Exposing US War Crimes
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout Human Rights and Global Wrongs Ever since U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel formally ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. last week, press freedom advocates around the world have been mobilizing. […]
The Age of Stupidity: From Johnson and Biden to Putin and Xi Jinping
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The role of stupidity in determining the course of history is often underestimated by historians. They neglect it as too crude and shallow a factor […]
Electoral Victory of Colombians Petro and Marquez is Unprecedented
BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: National Police of Colombia – CC BY-SA 2.0 The comment overflowed with enthusiasm: “June 19 will be remembered as a day of the people and will be a moment of celebration for democracy […]
Free Assange? Yes, But That’s Not Nearly Enough
BY THOMAS KNAPP Photograph Source: thierry ehrmann – CC BY 2.0 On June 17, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face 18 criminal charges: One count of […]
Senate reaches accord on insultingly weak gun reform bill
Nicholas Stender Download PDF flyer Photo: Students in New York City hold a walkout to demands gun reform A gun reform bill arrived at by a negotiating team of Democrats and Republicans has cleared several […]
East European governments pledge loyalty to U.S. war drive
Patricia Gorky Download PDF flyer Photo: Armored unit participates in a NATO military drill. Credit: Sgt. Sebastien Frechette Presidents from nine east and central European countries recently met in Bucharest to lay the groundwork for […]
Biden’s Failed Summit: Latin America Resists
The Socialist Program Download PDF flyer This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it, produced as […]
Building Revolutionary Solidarity Across the Americas Against the Failed “Summit of the Americas”
The Socialist Program Download PDF flyer This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it. You can […]
Bolivia: Right wing, corporate media rush to defense of convicted dictator Añez
Reem Zubaidi Download PDF flyer Photo: Nov. 11, 2019 demonstration against the coup in Washington, D.C. Credit — ANSWER Coalition Powerful U.S. figures are rushing to the defense of former Bolivian dictator Jeanine Añez after […]