Above Photo: Protesters at 2021 Kill the Bill march in London (Extinction Rebellion). Protesters in some nations are celebrated. Others are ignored. Protest is a human right to be respected but instead can be used as a pretext for nefarious motives such as regime change. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is on the verge of effectively…
Above Photo: (Zeyi Fan via Flickr). Journalist Matt Taibbi reported a massive scoop regarding Twitterâs internal handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story in a long Twitter thread on Dec. 2 after receiving documents from Elon Musk. The following is a thread of Tweets written by Matt Taibbi on Dec. 2 about Twitterâs content moderation practicesâspecifically…
ï»ż Above Photo: Screenshot of Richard Wolff (Left) and Chris Hedges (Right). Screenshot / TRNN Capitalist profiteering is the real driver of the inflation crisis, and raising interest rates only passes the costs onto workers already overwhelmed by personal debt and stagnant wages. The Federal Reserve has responded to runaway inflation by hiking up…
Syria has drifted from the headlines, but the U.S. is still stealing their oil, occupying large swaths of their land, and economically obliterating them. This month, UN special rapporteur Alena Douhan came back from Syria and demanded an end to all sanctions imposed by US and its allies. In her statement, Douhan said, âThe economy is hostage to…
The US dollar is used in the majority of international trade, and its status as the global reserve currency gives the United States an âexorbitant privilegeâ that underpins its geopolitical and economic dominance. Yet opposition to Washingtonâs hegemony is growing around the world. Institutions of Eurasian integration are proposing their own…
Above Photo: A worker rides a rail car at a BNSF rail crossing in Saginaw, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Most railroad workers werenât surprised that Congress intervened this week to block a railroad strike, but they were disappointed because they say the deals lawmakers imposed didnât do enough to address their quality of life concerns about…
Lindsey German on social division, the ruling class and why anti-oppressive advances need protecting The row over the queenâs former lady in waiting who repeatedly demanded to know where domestic violence campaigner Ngozi Fulani was from has made headlines. Racism at the palace is hardly a shocker, but the temerity with which Lady Susan Hussey questioned…
As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to Israelâs own nuclear weapons capabilities. Luckily, many countries around the world do not subscribe to this endemic western hypocrisy. âThe Conference on the Establishment of…
TCC4J members at November 28 press conference to denounce fake "reform." (Fight Back! News/staff) Minneapolis, MN - In early December, the Minneapolis city council will vote on a âCommunity Commission on Police Oversightâ (CCPO). But despite the name of this proposed commission, Twin Cities activists say that this commission would do nothing to…
Tallahassee, FL - On December 1, Tallahasseeâs Civilian Police Review Board (CPRB) held its monthly meeting. A major topic of concern was the recent attack of one of the boardâs members, Taylor Biro. During the October 12 city commission meeting, Commissioner Dianne Williams-Cox, who was endorsed by and received donations from the Police Benevolent…
Challenges Ahead for the Pink Tide. A surging Pink Tide has brought left electoral victories in Latin America and the Caribbean protesting the neoliberal model imposed by the US and its collaborators. Neoliberalism has failed to meet the needs of the peoples of the region and is losing its legitimacy as a prototype for development. However, the countries…
ï»ż After over two weeks of the largest higher education strike in US history, postdoctoral employees and academic researchers at the University of California have reached a tentative agreement with the UC system. The agreement will lead to significant wage increases, one of the key demands of the striking workers. However, these university employees…
Above photo: Committee to Protect Journalists. US Tax Dollars at Work. On October 7th, in the face of massive and ever-growing demonstrations all across Haiti demanding the uprooting of the right-wing Haitian TĂ©t Kale Party (PHTK) dictatorship, Prime Minister Ariel Henry exploited the fiction of a war between his regime and âgangsâ to call for…
Above photo: Redwing Thomas created the new program that daily teaches Santee language, history and culture to students at the iSanti Community Schools. Thomas was also briefly suspended from school after verbal altercations with another teacher, who allegedly said demeaning things about Santee students and the cultural program. Thomas was reinstated…
Tiwi people argued they should have been consulted before a massive gas drilling project started near their island, the Federal Court of Australia ruled. The ruling could slow other offshore projects. A group of indigenous  hailed a âhistoric decisionâ by the countryâs Federal Court on Friday to delay plans for a massive gas project in the…
Today we are taking a look at a spicy dish that mixes sausage and bok choy and is very easy to make.To begin you want to make the sauce that will ultimately be used in the dish.Sauce Ingredients:1/4 cup beef broth1/4 cup rice vinegar2 tablespoons soy sauce2 teaspoons corn starch1 - 2 teaspoons red pepper flakesTake all the ingredients and mix together…
Israelâs incoming national security minister, speaking to the soldier who shot a Palestinian man dead at point-blank range on Friday, hailed the killing as "precise, swift and rigorous", calling the shooter a "hero". Itamar Ben-Gvir said the soldier had carried out a job "well done" in fatally shooting 22-year-old Ammar Mefleh, whose death was caught…
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By: The LGBTQIA+ Commission of the American Party of Labor. Since the overturning of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, the reactionary Supreme Court has made it known that they are interested in reviewing and most likely reversing progressive victories of the past. This includes the landmark victory in June of 2015 from Obergefell…
Delivery workers in Japan are fed up with Amazon Japanâs practices that make accidents and injuries more likely by increasing delivery volume and speed. They are now organising unions to take on Amazon. Here is their story. In his 40s, Susumu Adachi (not his real name) has been delivering for Amazon for nearly three years. âThe last mile is the…
Is China heading for an uncontrolled COVID infection surge as it relaxes is strict lockdown policy, as is claimed by the Western media here? SOME FACTS: China is going through its third major wave of infections, with around 4,000 new (symptomatic) cases a day of late. But relative to its huge population this is nothing like whatâs being experienced…
The US military industrial complex has made news with another eye-wateringly expensive product, a near totemic tribute to waste in a time of crisis. The $700 million B-21 Raider stealth bomber was unveiled by Northrop Grumman Corp. and the United States Air Force on December 2 at Airforce Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. There was much slush and…
Photo provided by Sutton Community Farm The UK farming sector is in the middle of an existential crisis. As a consequence of leaving the EUâs Common Agricultural Policy, the Conservative government has had to draft a new agricultural support scheme to either match or replace the direct payments received by UK farmers from the EU. What will replace…
Above photo: China provides medical supplies during the pandemic. Wikipedia. Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, and China. The US has long considered Latin America and the Caribbean to be its âbackyardâ under the anachronist 1823 Monroe Doctrine. And even though current US President Biden mistakenly thinks that upgrading the region to the âfront…
