Imperial logic: why the US cannot escape its ‘New Middle East’ wars, by Steven A. Cook
Article from Foreign Affairs, PDF below, original post here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-10-13/no-exit
The Saudi-Israeli-US Propaganda War On Iran, by Benham Gharagozli
“Shortly after the horrific attacks on 9/11, it was discovered that there was an American plan to dismantle the regimes of seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and lastly, Iran. Since then, the world witnessed regime […]
The Strange Demise of the American Herald Tribune, Another independent news source is suppressed, by Philip Giraldi
“What is happening here is an effort by the U.S. government to suppress any news source if it can be plausibly linked to a foreign government that is unfriendly. “ PDF below, the original post at Dissident Voice is […]
‘Karl Marx in Wuhan: how Chinese socialism is defeating COVID-19’, by Carlos Martinez
Reproduced from International Critical Thought, April 2020, Vol 10, No 2, PDF below and online here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21598282.2020.1779504
Full debate: Denis Rancourt and Tim Anderson debate the 2020 pandemic
The OffGuardian site initiated a written debate between Dr Denis Rancourt (Canada), leading pandemic sceptic, and Dr Tim Anderson (Australia), an advocate of stronger public health systems. Proposition: ‘SARS-COV-2 merits suppression measures in order to combat the virus […]
COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Fatal Health Inequities, by Meredeth Turshen and Annie Thébaud-Mony
From Monthly review, PDF below, original post is here: https://monthlyreview.org/2020/11/01/the-covid-19-pandemic-exposes-fatal-health-inequities/
Neoliberal fantasies: ‘How US foreign policy will shape the ‘Great Reset”, WEF.
The WEF promotes the decaying US regime as the centre of transformation into a ‘new’ neoliberal world. PDF attached, original post linked here. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/us-foreign-policy-shape-the-global-recovery-experts-explain/
Caught in the US-China Thucydides Trap: What are Australia’s options?
by Jay Tharappel The rise of China has prompted many US geostrategic thinkers over the past decade to talk about the degree to which another ‘world war’ is inevitable, including most recently Henry Kissinger, who warned that if […]
‘Herd Immunity’ is unethical, says WHO chief
From Counter Currents, 13 October 2020, Full article below, original post here: https://countercurrents.org/2020/10/herd-immunity-is-unethical-says-who/ The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the idea of allowing Covid-19 to simply spread through society, calling this “herd immunity” approach to fighting […]
The Three Visits of Hugo Chavez to Syria
Prensa Latina / SANA, translated from the Spanish by CCHS Comandante Hugo Chavez made his first official visit to the Syrian Arab Republic in August 2006, when he held several work activities with the Syrian government, headed by […]
The China and Africa Connection U.S. Imperialism Does Not Want You to Know About, by Danny Haiphong
The US sows hysteria about China because Washington can no longer dictate global affairs without any significant challenge. AFRICOM’s growth is aligned with the ‘pivot to Asia’. Full article here: https://www.blackagendareport.com/china-and-africa-connection-us-imperialism-does-not-want-you-know-about?page=1
Korea: Dispelling myths about Cuban doctors
Jeong I-na, former professor at the Busan University of Foreign Studies, wants to set the record straight about the public healthcare system in Cuba. Full PDF below, original post here: http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/PRINT/964270.html
The creeping privatisation of healthcare in the EU, Rachel Tansey
The creeping privatisation of healthcare: problematic EU policies and the corporate lobby push, 02.06.2017, by Rachel Tansey for Corporate Europe Observatory. Original post here: https://corporateeurope.org/en/power-lobbies/2017/06/creeping-privatisation-healthcare# Privatisation in its various guises is “spreading across Europe’s health services like a […]
Full speech of Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on the occasion of the tenth day of Muharram (08/30/2020)
Translated by Alahed News staff, original post here: https://www.english.alahednews.com.lb/55043/596 I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious the Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers […]
The Liberal Disingenuousness of ‘Trump’s America’, Erica Caines
“After weeks of a panic-driven insistence that we can vote out fascism by self-proclaimed leftists, mainstream media has taken it up a notch with terminology like “Trump’s America.” In using that term, what both leftists and liberals are […]
Iran-Russia-China alliance transforming global balance of power: Naqqash
Transcription by Middle East Observer of a July 2020 interview with Lebanese Resistance analyst Anees Naqqash. Full text below, original post here: http://middleeastobserver.net/iran-russia-china-alliance-transforming-global-balance-of-power-naqqash/ Description: During a televised political talk show, senior Lebanese political analyst Anees Naqqash commented on […]
Anti-Imperialist Working Class Platform, by PCOA
Initiative by the Venezuela based PCOA (Plataforma de la Clase Obrera Antiimperialista@nucleoPCOA), arising from the First International Meeting of Workers in Solidarity with the Government and People of Venezuela. Caracas- Venezuela 2019
Sayyed Nasrallah to Zionists: ‘One Israeli Soldier for Every Hezbollah Fighter’, by Sara Taha Moughnieh
From al Manar, 30 August 2020: http://english.almanar.com.lb/1130384 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech on the 10th of Muharram in which he tackled local and regional developments as he expressed that “this year the 10th day […]
Lebanese Patriarch promotes peace with the enemy and backs its propaganda against the Resistance, al Akhbar
Translation of an important article at al Akhbar, on the betrayal by Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Beshara Rai, who is now openly identified with Samir Geagea’s Lebanese Forces (which gained 9% of the national vote in the 2018 […]
A Web of Deceit: Amnesty International in Hong Kong, by Laura Ruggeri
How Amnesty International has become embedded in Washington’s campaign against China, through interventions in the politics of Hong Kong. 14 Aug 2020. Laura Ruggeri is an Italian national and resident of Hong Kong. In June 2018 five law […]
Heavy cost of Germany’s ‘reunification’: the economic Anschluss of the GDR, by Rachel Knaebel & Pierre Rimbert
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former East Germany remembers the deliberate, immediate destruction of industry and jobs for the profit of West German firms and money-makers. East Germans still want to know how […]
Germany and Israel’s long, strange relationship, by Daniel Marwecki
Postwar West Germany helped build the new state of Israel, and had an important and little-known role in shaping the modern Middle East. But its early efforts to make amends often revealed old sentiments.
La industria biofarmacéutica cubana en el combate contra la pandemia de COVID-19 / The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic (Esp)
The main article is in Spanish, but here is the English abstract: ‘The new coronavirus pandemic has challenged the capacity of health systems in most countries. Cuba’s strategy has recently been analyzed in an article published by President […]
Trump’s ‘new opium war’ against China, Global Times
‘Trump’s Armistice Demands: the trade war against China has entered fever pitch’. This article is from Eddie Cheong, translation of an article from the Global Times written in Chinese, August 2020 The White House has announced that if […]
China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with US-funded ‘experts’, by Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal
Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz. Full PDF […]