News on China No. 133 by Dongsheng News / February 4th, 2023 This weekâs News on China in 2 minutes. âą Bolivia and China agreement for CBC consortium to mine lithium âą 892 million trips for the Chinese new year âą Extension of rights for migrant workers âą The challenges of football in China Dongsheng (Eastern Voices) is an international collective…
By Ralph Nader / February 4th, 2023 The word âinequalityâ is everywhere in the media. It usually refers either to race, gender, rich vs. poor, or other differences between human beings. Absent from the public debate is the biggest perpetrator of âinequalityâ against human beings â the corporate entity itself. Ever since 1886 when a U.S. Supreme…
By Allen Forrest / February 4th, 2023 Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books, is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine for 2015, and his Bel Red landscape paintings are part of the Bellevue College…
But for now, let me repeat: the worldâs richest 85 individuals do not have the same amount of accumulated wealth as the worldâs poorest 50 percent. They have vastly more. The multitude on the lower rungsâeven taken as a totalityâhave next to nothing. â Michael Parenti Funny stuff seeing the MoveOn outfit go after ONLY the one percent who are…
Image credit: Hrayr Badalyan Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), a self-governing enclave in the South Caucasus, remains under total blockade by Azerbaijan. Over 120,000 Armeniansâincluding 30,000 childrenâare on the brink of an unspeakable humanitarian catastrophe as food runs scarce, medicine cabinets fall bare, and children now suffer malnutrition. A…
By Mickey Z. / February 3rd, 2023 Like many of you, I watched parts of Vera Sharavâs new documentary series, Never Again is Now Global, this week. With its sharp focus on the Holocaust and Nazi tactics in general, I felt the need to reach back into some of my older research and remind readers who was supporting and enabling the rise of Hitler. Spoiler…
Image credit: Great Lakes Now Forever Chemicals are found everywhere from the depths of the Mariana Trench to the mountaintop of Mt. Everest. Following 80 years of manufacturing various PFAS chemicals, the world is swimming in chemical permanence. And yes, it is a toxic price society pays for modern-day conveniences â made easy! But maybe it would…
By Allen Forrest / February 3rd, 2023 Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books, is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine for 2015, and his Bel Red landscape paintings are part of the Bellevue College…
In the modern lexicon of supporters of the liberal ideology, the word âdemocracyâ means a certain positive phenomenon, to the triumph of which humanity must certainly strive in all spheres of public life. They declared despotism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, totalitarianism and other similar negative things as the antipodes of this phenomenon…
Think about this ⊠The neocons lied to us about Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo. They lied to us about Afghanistan. They lied to us about Iraq. They lied to us about Libya. They lied to us about Syria. Theyâre currently lying to us about Yemen, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Colombia, and China. So ⊠Why would we for a microsecond think that…
Abdel Rahmen al-Mozayen (Palestine), Jenin, 2002. Israel calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality. This year, 2023, will be the seventy-fifth year after the Nakba, the catastrophe of 1948 when Israeli troops illegally removed Palestinians from their homes and tried to erase Palestine from…
By Allen Forrest / February 2nd, 2023 Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books, is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine for 2015, and his Bel Red landscape paintings are part of the Bellevue College…
By Mickey Z. / February 2nd, 2023 Questions provoked by the widespread decision to expose young children to drag performances: 1. Why are prepubescent children being taught about sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation? Itâs one thing if a child has same-sex parents and other kids ask questions about it. Some basic details should be shared. Beyond…
By J.B. Gerald / February 2nd, 2023 Graphic by Julie Maas The Williams Lake First Nation of British Columbia has announced discovery of another 66 sites which are possibly the graves of children on land of the St. Joseph Mission Residential School which closed in 1981. 93 suspected burial sites were previously announced. Control of the school passed…
By Roger D. Harris / February 2nd, 2023 Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the USSR were in an existential standoff. The US had deployed ballistic nuclear missiles in Turkey. When the Soviets responded by placing missiles in Cuba, the US demanded their…
The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. With one single exception: Palestine. 76 percent of all respondents to the poll, which is carried out annually…
The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) vehemently protests CELACâs (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños / Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) apparent support for multinational military intervention into Haiti, and strongly opposes CELAC including unelected Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in its…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead / February 1st, 2023 This is warrior policing on steroids. â Paul Butler, law professor That the police officers charged with the beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols are Black is a distraction. Donât be distracted. This latest instance of police brutality is not about racism in policing or black-on-black…
By William E. Scheuerman / February 1st, 2023 As I pulled into the gas station to fill up, my car radio car told me that on January 31st Exxon-Mobile announced record-breaking profits of over fifty-five billion dollars. With the price of gas again approaching four bucks a gallon, I was certainly making my contribution to Big Oilâs profiteering. The…
By Allen Forrest / February 1st, 2023 âCoronavirus vaccine makers are shielded from liability.â Is this normal? Should one consider this procedure as protecting the rights of those mandated to be vaccinated? Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books…
Yah, I am training to be a school bus driver. Iâve written about it in previous pieces, and thatâs First Student, a foreign outfit in 49 states, 7 Canadian provinces, and itâs an equity firm out of Belgium. Bidding on school district transportation contracts far and wide, and alas, this Belgium company is getting paid by guess who? USA and Canadian…
Only by means of intense deceit does the U.S. Government allege that it and its allies are âdemocraticâ and that the countries that they impose sanctions against and overthrow (or try to overthrow) in coups and invasions are not. Irrespective of whether some of the countries that the U.S. Government targets for overthrow are or are not dictatorships…
French workers currently live nearly two years longer than their counterparts in member states in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), composed of roughly the worldâs most advanced capitalist countries. Further, they retire with full benefits, on average, nearly three years earlier than their counterparts in the OECD…
By Mickey Z. / January 31st, 2023 The images in this post are not photographs taken at a recent party for relatively well-off white people. These people do not exist. Rather, they were created by an artificial intelligence platform called Midjourney. Remember these images whenever the ânewsâ or some other âofficialâ entity shows you photos or…
By Allen Forrest / January 31st, 2023 Spockâs logic as to why one should blindly obey: âWithout followers, evil cannot spread.â â Star Trek, âAnd the Children Shall Leadâ Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books, is the winner of the Leslie…
