Depleted Uranium: European Courts Accept Cancer Risk Denied by Army

Phil Miller An Italian soldier at a Serb police headquarters destroyed by NATO in Kosovo, 1999. (Photo: Mike Nelson / AFP via Getty) Courts across Europe have ruled that depleted uranium can cause cancer among troops. Yet the British army insists it is safe to supply Ukraine with the toxic tank shells. More than 300…

The Story of Seven Countries: A Review of US Aggression in West Asia and North Africa

Ali Karbalaei In the 21st century, the U.S. learnt the hard way of its catastrophic foreign military policy in West Asia: From boots on the ground to so-called precision strikes. Washington’s success in destabilizing a continent with terror and destruction over two decades came at the expense of mass civilian casualties?, dead U.S. soldiers, expensive…

Barack Obama is a War Criminal Whose Crimes Against Humanity Must Be Punished

Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza Barack Obama is often presented as a moral political leader whose historic ascendancy to the U.S. presidency as the first black president is a feat to behold. Yet he was a brutal war criminal who murdered thousands of innocent lives under America’s obsolete war against terror. Despite being awarded a Nobel Peace…

‘Ukraine Victory Resolution’ Act: A Delusional Suicide Pact

Scott Ritter A vote for the resolution is a vote for nuclear war with Russia. The resolution is a literal suicide pact with Ukraine. Hopefully the American people will wake up to this reality before it is too late, and let their representatives know that they chose life over death. Two US Congressmen who sit…

Why are ‘Sensitive US Nuclear Technologies’ in Ukraine?

Drago Bosnic Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant When talking about various reasons as to why Russia launched its counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe the points usually revolve around historical and strategic/geopolitical aspects of the Ukrainian conflict. And while those points certainly stand regardless, there are other crucial reasons, almost entirely overlooked or even censored by…

More than Mercenaries: Police as the Crucible of Fascism in the US

Comrade Dremel Fascism is ascendant in the imperial core. The U.S. and its junior partners are waging an increasingly bloody war on all fronts, in an attempt to bolster the decaying husk of capital. The foot soldiers in this war are the police. Armed to the teeth and trained to kill, police are positioned as…

Ukrainian Nazism: Why a New Nuremberg is Necessary

Viktor Medvedchuk Since the “collapse” of the USSR and the emergence of an independent Ukraine, Western politicians, and special services in Ukraine began to revive Nazism through the introduction of nationalist ideology in the consciousness of Ukrainians. According to Western plans, a Nazified Ukraine was to become a “weapon” against Russia. One of the ideologues…

Black Lives Remain in Danger Throughout the United States

Abayomi Azikiwe Lynnette Williams holds a sign during a gathering at Second Baptist Church in Akron, Ohio, calling for justice for Jayland Walker, July 2, 2022. (AP) Even after three years of mass demonstrations and urban rebellions in the United States, law-enforcement agencies and the entire legal system are still “justifying” the shooting deaths of…

How the West Conjures Up Atrocities Overseas to Cover for its Own

Evan Reif Pete Reed [Source: assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com] Recently, American doctor and ex-Marine Pete Reed was killed near the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine. Since his death, Reed has been lionized as a selfless hero who lived a life of service. Ukrainian sources are quick to condemn his death as a horrible atrocity and Russian war crime….

Haiti, Hunger, and US Prison Imperialism

James Patrick JordanUS deportees in Haitian prisons. (Photo: Jacob Kushner/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism) Imposing coups, forcing fake elections, denying asylum claims, and kidnapping a president aren’t enough subjugation for the US to carry out against Haiti. US built prisons are a death trap for thousands of people in that country. Three prisoners in the…

The US Has a Child Labor Crisis. Lawmakers are Trying to Make it Worse.

Natalia Marques Packers Sanitation Services Inc., one of the largest sanitation companies for the meat processing industry was fined $1.5 million in February for hiring over 100 children in hazardous labor, cleaning equipment such as “skull-splitters” and “razor-sharp bone saws.” (Photo: US Department of Labor) Iowa just passed one of the most extreme pro-child labor…

Migration in Europe: Judging History Through the Eyes of the Present

Mabel LLevat How do we open the spaces through which the extreme right wing grows and expands? The refractory treatment of migrants is undoubtedly one of them. An overview of old technologies and new strategies of dehumanization. Many times the networks of activists and allies of the anti-racist struggle echo messages claiming the right of…

Enslavement of African Migrants ‘Big Business’ in Libya Thanks to EU Funding

Alexander Rubinstein An investigation by the United Nations has concluded that money provided by the European Union to state entities in Libya has facilitated crimes against humanity ranging from forced labor and sexual slavery to torture. Through its financial support of the Libyan Coast Guard and the Libyan Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM), the…

A Multipolar World: Between Pride and Shame

Stephen Sefton We often focus more than anything else on the concrete and material aspects of political, economic and social life, giving less importance to the spiritual and affective aspects of living. However, these aspects in the lives of peoples and societies can have a decisive impact on the development of world events and international…

US Resumes Construction of Biolabs in Ukraine

Russian Defense Ministry briefing on analysis of documents related to U.S. military and biological activities April 07, 2023 According to the document, despite a forced pause due to a special military operation, activities under the Program have now been resumed. The main tasks at this stage are to continue the construction of biolaboratories in Ukraine,…

The Nord Stream Ghost: The False Details in the CIA’s Cover Story

Seymour HershGas emanating from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea, September 28, 2022. / Swedish Coast Guard. America’s Central Intelligence Agency is constantly running covert operations around the world, and all must have a cover story in case things go badly, as they often do. It is just as important to have…

The Security Council Fails the World on Nordstream

Alfred de Zayas After the thorough, coherent and credible investigation conducted by Seymour Hersh[1] of the sabotage of Nordstream, any tribunal under the rule of law would commence an investigation of the terroristic bombing. Indeed, in the United States any grand jury would find that the evidence already in the public domain suffices to indict the…

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…