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Global Economic Losses Since Dawn of Pandemic Hit $3.3 Trillion
Since 2020, the global economy lost $3.3 trillion....
Posted: Thu, Apr 11, 2024 12:46pm PDT
On the Ukraine war: "The end result will be a frozen conflict"
The West, primarily the USA, will not accept a final peace agreement in which Russia retains a substantial part of Ukrainian territory. Even if it is a frozen conflict, the West and the Ukrainians will go to great lengths to subtly undermine Russia's position in the areas of Ukraine it has conquered. The Russians will go to great lengths to ensure that the Ukrainian rump state remains weak....
Posted: Mon, Apr 8, 2024 4:18am PDT
Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqah (وليد دقة) dies, the machine grinds on
Walid Daqqah had been locked up for 38 years - the United States holds anti-colonialists in prison for even longer terms...
Posted: Sun, Apr 7, 2024 3:24pm PDT
A Philosopher's Critique
Because the declining middle classes are unable to see past individualism and economic self-interest, they stick with the fantasy that any loss of purchasing power is a temporary glitch awaiting systemic resolution – as if Capital were an eternal and inexhaustible mode of wealth creation....
Posted: Thu, Apr 4, 2024 1:51am PDT
All people are reporters. On media use in the Internet age
What is missing in the mainstream media landscape are background reports, essays, longer interviews, travel reports and what is called "investigative journalism". What is perhaps boring are ideology-critical internal debates about the right line, i.e. hermetic, exclusionary language. Many people know that Marxian political economy is back in fashion. But it needs an update....
Posted: Mon, Apr 1, 2024 2:05pm PDT
Words on war and peace
"Every cannon that is built, every warship that is launched, every missile that is fired is ultimately a theft from those who are hungry and have nothing to eat, those who are cold and have no clothes. A world under arms not only squanders money. It also squanders the sweat of its workers, the spirit of its scientists and the hope of its children." (45) former President Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Posted: Fri, Mar 29, 2024 12:21pm PDT
USA delivered a pre-emptive strike to Russia prior to the terror attack on Moscow
The White house said it sent Moscow a "warning" prior to the massacre at Crocus concert hall last week. However, it appears the message was a non-specific, boiler-plate that contained no actionable intelligence. Thus, the useless alert could only serve a diversionary tactic; indeed, only as a "pre-emptive" informational warfare strike designed solely for the purpose of "plausible deniability" for the USA...
Posted: Thu, Mar 28, 2024 9:48pm PDT
Genocide To End With Jews Squatting Northern Gaza: National Security Committee Head
The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip will end with Jews settling north of the Gaza Strip, the head of the Knesset's National Security Committee said on Sunday....
Posted: Sun, Mar 24, 2024 6:14am PDT
Why anti-fascism?
Capitalism is not in a position to solve the social and ecological crisis that it is causing. An open-ended transformation of the system is inevitable, and a struggle for transformation will be waged – especially against the fascist threat. Conscious reflection on the systemic crisis is the best antidote to the conspiratorial crisis...
Posted: Sat, Mar 23, 2024 10:02am PDT
Israel Threatens To Destroy Al-Shifa Medical Complex With People Inside
Media office holds US administration, international community ‘fully responsible for continuation of organized crime against medical complex’...
Posted: Sat, Mar 23, 2024 2:03am PDT
NATO and the new Cold War
In the period between 1999 and 2023, 14 states of the former Warsaw Pact were admitted to NATO in several stages: an increasing threat to the Russian Federation due to the ongoing shift of NATO's eastern borders to Russian territory. In 2018, Trump terminated the Arms Control Treaty, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty & in 2020 the Open Skies Treaty....
Posted: Wed, Mar 20, 2024 6:55am PDT
Israeli Army Forces People Inside Gaza Hospital To Evacuate Stripped
"The Israeli army stormed the hospital on Monday with military vehicles suddenly, opened fire, shelled buildings, and arrested women and men," Moumin Bulbul, 24, who works in the reception department, told Anadolu.
"During the arrest, they stripped us forcibly and interrogated us, and some were taken to an unknown place," he added.
Bulbul noted that the "Israeli army forced dozens of Palestinians to evacuate towards the south of Gaza City, naked and handcuffed."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 19, 2024 2:42pm PDT
More Than 250 Killed, Injured In Israeli Raid On Gaza Hospital, Media Office Says
Gaza’s media office says children executed by Israeli forces at Al Shifa Hospital.
"Israeli forces heavily opened fire as they stormed the hospital, killing and injuring more than 250 civilians," the media office said in a statement.
The office said several children were executed by Israeli forces at the hospital....
Posted: Tue, Mar 19, 2024 2:39pm PDT
Israel Lost War Against Hamas In Gaza: Zionist Major General (Ret.)
"This is the most serious scandal since the establishment of the army," he said. "We have already lost the war with Hamas, and we are also losing our allies in the world at a dizzying rate."...
Posted: Sun, Mar 17, 2024 6:07am PDT
Killing Of Rachel Corrie: A Life Given In The Struggle For Palestinian Freedom
US peace activist Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family's home 21 years ago today, March 16th....
Posted: Sat, Mar 16, 2024 6:58am PDT
The difference between wanting to and being able to
The war has exacted an enormous price in terms of human lives, destruction, economic and political collateral damage in Ukraine, in the EU and worldwide. Its continuation would further increase the horrors.The war has changed shape: it has become a proxy war and a war of world order between the West and Russia....
Posted: Sat, Mar 16, 2024 6:40am PDT
Palestinians have the right for armed struggle
UNGA Resolution 3070 in 1973, reaffirms the right of people struggling from colonial domination, can use all available means, including armed struggle. China's Foreign Ministry official Ma Xinmin reminded the ICJ panel of judges on February 22, at the Hague....
Posted: Sat, Mar 16, 2024 12:31am PDT
Israel Prevents Medical Teams From Reaching Al-Aqsa On 1st Friday Of Muslim Holy Month
The Israeli forces also prevented "all ambulance crews in all medical institutions in Jerusalem from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque," the society added, noting that "ambulance crews were attacked while they were heading to the mosque."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 15, 2024 4:20am PDT
Saving the planet means saving the world
Instead of today’s economic system, which increases inequality, a new system is indispensable, according to Rockström and colleagues. What is needed is a ‘wellbeing economy’ which serves people and the planet—rather than people and the planet serving the economy, as the Wellbeing Economic Alliance (WeAll) puts it....
Posted: Wed, Mar 13, 2024 7:22am PDT
A Call To All To Observe Ramadan!!!!
A Call For All To Observe Ramadan In Support Of An End To The Genocide And For A Free Palestine!!!!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 11, 2024 11:01pm PDT