Bloodshed, Tear Gas Bombs and Mudslides: 100 Days of Dictatorship

Clau O’Brien Moscoso Cyclone Yaku recently devastated Peru with flooding and mudslides. (Photo: AFP 2023 / Jao Yamunaque) Clau O’Brien Moscoso continues her dispatches from Peru in the wake of a natural disaster and the ongoing coup against President Castillo. A Spanish translation follows. National Strike, Day 75 Perú has plunged into chaos since the…

Why Human Rights Watch Deliberately Only Scratched the Surface in Exploring Ukraine’s Use of Banned ‘Petal’ Mines

Eva Bartlett [Source: Photo Courtesy of Eva Bartlett] Since Ukraine dropped thousands of mines on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in July, 104 people have fallen victim to the internationally-banned PFM-1 ‘petal’ (otherwise known as ‘butterfly’) devices. Nine of them are children. Of which three died. Among the most recent civilians to be injured, on March 19, were two 60-year-old men….

The Pentagon’s Budget from Hell

William D Hartung On March 13th, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were — or at least should have been — stunning, even by the standards of a department that’s used to getting what it wants when it wants it. The new Pentagon budget would come in at $842…

Why Britain’s Uranium Ammo Decision a Big Deal

Scott Ritter The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense announced that it would be sending anti-tank ammunition for the Challenger 2 tanks being delivered to Ukraine that contain depleted uranium. According to the British MoD, depleted uranium, or DU, “is a standard component and has nothing to do with nuclear weapons,” adding that “The British Army has…

Iraq Invasion 20th Anniversary: 5 Million Dead in Iraqi Holocaust

Dr Gideon Polya The 20th anniversary of the war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq in 2003 will fall on about 20 March 2023. On this occasion mendacious and racist Western media will at best remember the Iraq War as a US policy mistake. However decent people will remember the carnage. From 1990…

The US Blockade and its Effects on Cuban Medicine

Carlos L. Garrido Rural health care in Cuba (Photo by Carol Foil, 2009). The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world.1 It is innovative, preventative, people-oriented, comprehensive, community-centered, internationalist, and, of course, de-commodified—treating healthcare as a human right, not a profitable commodity. However, in spite of its extraordinary successes,…

On the Twentieth Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq: The U.S. is the Greatest Threat to World Peace and Collective Humanity

​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka (Image: Song Chen, China Daily) History teaches that the greatest threat to peace today is the United States. No other nation creates dangers as great as those emanating from the U.S. commitment to the doctrine of Full Spectrum Dominance. As anti-imperialist and Anti-war activists are preparing to mobilize in Washington D.C. on the 20th…

Women of the Earth: Landless Women

MST Photo: MST in Minas Gerais Coluna Aromas de Março extols the importance of women in Popular Agrarian Reform in the struggle for a more egalitarian country All over the world we are experiencing a crisis of the capitalist production model, which expresses its contradictions in different aspects, among them: political, economic, social, and environmental….

State-Sanctioned Violence in Peru and the Role of Canadian Mining

Kirsten Francescone Protests against the Tía María copper mining project in Islay, Arequipa Region, Peru. Photo by Diario Correo. Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment. On January 18, 2023, as thousands of Peruvians were taking to the streets in Lima to denounce the…

Environmental Сatastrophe at Nord Stream

Orienrtal Review Baltic harbour porpoise According to European scientists, the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipeline led to an ecological disaster in the Baltic Sea. The consequences of this sabotage vary, but the cumulative damage to nature is enormous. An immediate consequence of the pipelines’ explosion was the death of marine animals. According to Research…

Commission Reveals that Trudeau Government Lied About Nature of Truckers Protests in Ottawa Last February to Justify Invocation of Emergencies Act

Ray McGinnis Anti-vaccine mandate protesters were falsely accused of being rapists, white supremacists and violence-prone by a liberal prime minister who endangers Canadian freedoms. A year ago Canadian mainstream media and politicians described an unruly mob headed for Ottawa. On January 26, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadians there was a “fringe minority” with…

Was the Pentagon and CIA Behind the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Jeremy Kuzmarov Bioterrorism expert and whistleblower alleges that CIA secretly collaborated in supporting unethical gain of function research that resulted in the manufacture of the COVID-19 virus, which was then leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Andrew G. Huff is an Iraq War veteran and infectious disease epidemiologist with a Ph.D. from the…

US Hegemony and its Perils

US troops steal Syrian grain and oil while US sanctions are killing the Syrian people, obstructing urgent humanitarian aid to victims of the recent earthquakes. U.S. Hegemony and Its Perils February 2023 Contents Introduction I. Political Hegemony — Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony — Wanton Use of Force III. Economic Hegemony — Looting…