The scenes of massive people’s protests that have forced Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to Singapore have filled the news media. On July 20, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister, was appointed interim president.
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What the U.S. government and The New York Times have quietly agreed not to tell you about Ukraine
Today, men like Danyial al-Takbir, a neo-Nazi, former ISIS member and convicted mass murderer, rapist (several of his victims were raped until dead) and arsonist stand at the vanguard of a war planned for seven decades. This is the true legacy of the OUN, from its...
Child labor is alive and well in the United States
A Hyundai subsidiary used up to fifty underage migrant workers at an auto plant known for hazardous conditions, according to former and current employees.
West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulation, slashing worker protections
Western governments and corporations met in Switzerland to plan harsh neoliberal economic policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labor laws, “open markets,” drop tariffs, deregulate industries, and “sell state-owned enterprises to private...
Two hundred years of Mendel’s genetic revolution and the fight against scientific racism
In July this year, the world is celebrating 200 years of Gregor Mendel's birth, widely accepted as the father of genetics.
What would be different about a socialist economy?
The New York Stock Exchange is perhaps the premier institutional expression of the capitalist economy.
China is issuing the same “Red Line” warnings about Taiwan that Russia issued about Ukraine
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued to pour gasoline on the foreign policy dumpster fire that is her planned visit to Taiwan next month, now reportedly encouraging other members of congress to come along for the ride.
Provoking Beijing
In 1991 Pelosi and two congressmen unfolded a banner on Tianamen in front of the international media that said: "To those who died for democracy in China." Police immediately intervened and ended the stunt.
Russia-Ukraine conflict: the propaganda war
What the mainstream media fail to see in the coverage of the current Ukraine crisis is that there is no text (narrative) without context. Long before the mainstream U.S. (and UK) media launched a worldwide propaganda war against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in...
An interview with John Pilger: “Assange is the courageous embodiment of a struggle against the most oppressive forces in our world”
Last month, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange’s extradition to the U.S., where he faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act for publishing true information exposing American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
‘An attack on solidarity’
Trade unions furious with Sir Keir for sacking shadow transport secretary as McDonnell backs growing calls for a general strike.