Topic: Thinking Politically
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Ukraine’s European Lives Matter! Iraqi Vietnamese Asian MidEast African Latin Lives Didn’t! An Element of Racism?
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While it would be expected for Western media to report fully on civilian life taken in the Ukraine by the military of US designated enemy Russia, people in Asia, Africa, MiddleEast and Latin America are surly noticing an element of racism with so much media attention given White European lives lost reminding them of the complete…
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Fact Finding Mission To Donbass Part 2
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This is a heart-wrenching account of brutality and neglect, the lack of water and food, danger in leaving and coming to Rubizhne. It generally corresponds with what I heard from the people of Lugansk at the shelter where there were 350 people who had escaped as their homes were bombed by tanks. They were totally…
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NATO and Africa
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The late Dr. Walter Rodney accurately described the early foundation of colonial Africa’s relationship with NATO in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: ”… in the 1950’s when most Africans were still colonial subjects, they had absolutely no control over the utilization of their soil for militaristic ends. Virtually the whole of North Africa was turned into…
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Solve Tomorrow’s Uvalde in nano seconds…
dial 9-1-1 singing the dispatcher this: “I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Akron…) “I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Brunswick…) “I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Cleveland…) Tell the cops, “He’s got a broken brake light…Treat it like a traffic stop!” “I…
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UKRAINE IS A PAWN ON THE GRAND CHESSBOARD
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The importance of NATO and Ukraine With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact, many people in the West believed NATO was no longer needed. NATO claimed to be strictly a defensive alliance and its only rival had disbanded. Brzezinski and other US hawks saw that NATO could be used to expand US…
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US, Ukraine and Russia: What Went Wrong?
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This is a report of a 2015 public event on this subject, with talks given by John Mearsheimer and Rick Rozoff. This provides some basic information BEFORE the Russian invasion in 2022 that many people don’t know and/or don’t want to know.
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The Only Commonality is Uncommonality: Progressive Protest from Below since the Mid-1980s
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Noting the extensive number of progrssive protests, mobilizations, and social disruptions from below since the mid-1980s, not just in the US but around the world, this article suggests that what is going on is the expansion of the global economic and social justice movement, a bottom-up form of globalization. It suggests that this is, ultimately,…
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Backed by AFRICOM, corporations plunder DR Congo for “climate-friendly” materials and blame China
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Cobalt, a key metallic element used in lithium batteries and other “green” technology, is sourced from slave labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the West points the finger at China, the US Africa Command is indirectly policing mining operations that profit US corporations. It may turn out that the millions of destitute Congolese…
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IPCC Climate Report: Capitalism is Unsustainable
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The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) states that the only way to avoid climate collapse is to end capitalism’s perpetual economic growth model. In a recent article co-authored by journalists and climate researchers, with content first published in the Spanish online publication CTXT, Progressive International reports that a “leaked draft of the third…
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Challenge Capitalist Use of Agriculture as a Weapon of Domination
It is time to take action against corporate methods of agriculture which poison the food our families eat, threaten the survival of soil ecosystems, destroy the livelihood of farmers, crush farmworker organizing efforts and subjugate entire countries. Here are a few of the many ways that people are challenging capitalist agriculture, from the very theoretical…
