Working-class people in the United States are now at a turning point–whether to compliantly return to the pre-Covid conditions capital set for them, or to shift toward a new militancy toward capitalism.
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How Zionism is fuelling a religious war over al-Aqsa Mosque
The ongoing attempts to take over Muslim holy places, whether in Jerusalem, Hebron, or in Nablus, continue apace, as does valiant Palestinian resistance to them.
‘They’re playing really dirty’: Amazon lashes back in Staten Island warehouses
The company has billed itself as the everything store. Now Amazon is the throw-everything-at-them union-buster—trying every trick in the playbook to throttle worker organizing at its Staten Island warehouses in New York City.
Inflation and the case of the missing profits
Everyone knows that inflation in the United States is increasing. Anyone who has read the news, or for that matter has gone shopping lately. Prices are rising at the fastest rate in decades. The Consumer Price Index rose 8.6 percent in March, which is the highest rate...
U.S., EU sacrificing Ukraine to ‘weaken Russia’: fmr. NATO adviser
Former Swiss intelligence officer and NATO adviser Jacques Baud on the roots of the Ukraine-Russia war and its growing dangers.
New York Times’ ridiculous attack on me exposes its deceitful propaganda tactics
The New York Times printed absurd claims about Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton in a smear piece, using an image of his face crossed out by a red line, without giving him an opportunity to comment. This hatchet job reflects the newspaper’s long history of...
Russia’s Sergey Glazyev introduces the new global financial system
The world's new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.
We do not want a divided planet; we want a World without walls
While the United States began its illegal war against Iraq in 2003, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro spoke in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ‘Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples’, he said, ‘nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities … Our country’s tens...
Russia investigating ISIS-style Ukrainian “social ad”
The unsettling video portrays a mock execution of a Russian soldier.
Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets
The Washington Post–owned by billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has CIA and Pentagon contracts–has called for censoring Chinese news outlets on social media, while praising Silicon Valley for purging Russian publications.
“Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0”
The new Cold War and the spread of anti-Asian racism.
International law and ‘European civilisation’
Despite its promises of universalism, international law has clearly not yet shaken its foundation as a racial order.