Tortilla con Sal In North America and Europe, the class war spiraled to new levels of intensity during and after the 2008 financial crisis. Governments acting on behalf of their countries’ corporate elites ensured an unprecedented transfer of wealth, imposing public sector austerity to protect Western corporate control of the international financial system. Simultaneously, Western…
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USA: Oligarchs Succeed! Only the People Suffer!
By James Petras Introduction On a scale not seen since the ‘great’ world depression of the 1930’s, the US political system is experiencing sharp political attacks, divisions and power grabs. Executive firings, congressional investigations, demands for impeachment, witch hunts, threats of imprisonment for ‘contempt of Congress’ and naked power struggles have shredded the façade of…
US Soft Coups in Latin America: The Cases of Ecuador and Bolivia
By Stansfield Smith Via Cuba-Network in Defense of Humanity The US now engineers “regime change” not so much by using the military, in part because of their military quagmires in the Middle East, in part because Obama has sought to give a new face and new credibility to the Empire after the damage it suffered…
Africa: Terrorism and the Upsurge of Russian Arms Sales
By Alex Gorka The Egyptian-Russian deal for the purchase of Ka-52K helicopters is at the final stage. According to Andrei Boginsky, the CEO of Russian Helicopters Group, Egypt is expected to decide this month on the purchase of Russia’s deck-based Kamov Ka-52K ‘Alligator’ helicopters for Mistral-type amphibious assault ships. Cairo is seeking to boost its blue…
Internationalist Gerald A. Perriera on Counterrevolution in Libya, Venezuela, and Nicaragua
The People’s Minister of Information JR International Journalist Gerald Perrirra talks about the counter-revolution being led by the imperialist powers against Libya, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. He also discusses the role that Christo and Islamo-fascist have played in the establishment of Africom all over Africa. To hear more, listen to BlockReportRadio.com. Previous Block Report Radio Interviews…
War and Empire: The American Way of Life
By Paul Atwood A few months ago I received a message from a professor at the Khomeini Institute for Education and Research in Tehran, Iran, informing me that my 2010 book “War and Empire: The American Way of Life” (London, Pluto Press) had been translated into Farsi. He requested that I write an Introduction for…
