News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[If Venezuela wins the seat, it will make it more difficult for imperialism to use the UN as its tool. However, imperialism doesn't need to UN. Imperialist military action happens with or without the UN. But the imperialists prefer the perceived legitimacy the UN gives them. -NP] Venezuela Poised to Win UN Security Council Seat... Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON, Sep 11 2014 (IPS) - At least half of global deforestation is taking place illegally and in support of commercial agriculture, particularly to supply overseas markets, new analysis released Thursday finds. Over the past decade, a majority of the illegal clearing of forests has been in response to foreign demand for common commodities such as... Continue Reading →
[Imperialism seeks control of the border to better control the flow of people and value. The flames of fascism are fanned. - NP] MEXICO CITY (AP) — Texas' decision to deploy National Guard troops along its southwestern border is, in the view of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, "unpleasant" and "reprehensible." Last month's deployment had... Continue Reading →
[Israel violates Iran's territory. Imperialism continues to attack Iran. -- NP] VIENNA (AP) — Iran is asking the U.N. nuclear agency to condemn the purported incursion of an Israeli drone. The request, in a letter dated Sept. 9, was posted on Thursday on the website of the U.N.s International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran's Revolutionary Guard... Continue Reading →
Dubbed Terrorists, Mayans Fight Back Against Guatemalan Mining Projects by Pete Guest (Newsweek) The road between the Guatemalan towns of San Miguel Ixtahuacán and Quetzaltenango is guarded by a dozen thin, young, Mayan men in baseball caps and hooded sweatshirts, who mill around a truck parked across the road. “If you are from the mine,”... Continue Reading →
(new-power.org)A recent article from http://aattp.org/ points out the hypocrisy of the US media and foreign policy:"We condemn ISIS’ public beheadings, but in 2012-13, our allies in Saudi Arabia cut the heads off of 79 people.Let’s play “Compare and Contrast” for a moment: Two oppressive, authoritarian Muslim regimes acting under the auspices of Sharia Law publicly behead... Continue Reading →
EDWARD SAID'S DIARY ON MEETING SARTRE, DE BEAUVOIR AND FOUCAULT((http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n11/edward-said/diary)The following are quotes from Edward Said's diary on meeting Sarte, De Beauvior, and Foucault. Said was very disappointed with the French intellectuals, especially Sarte and Foucault's support for Israel and De Beauvior's First Worldist feminism. The following is from Said's diary:Once the most celebrated intellectual, Jean-Paul... Continue Reading →
[Many revisionists confuse Russian imperialism and socialism. Some of these revisionists see Putin's authoritarianism and Russian nationalism as anti-imperialism or even socialism, the reality is very different. -NP] Putin Disses Lenin BY MASHA LIPMAN (The New Yorker) As Russia’s military escalation in eastern Ukraine continued last week, Vladimir Putin found time to visit the Seliger... Continue Reading →
[More genocide bankrolled by the USA. Where there is repression, there is resistance. - NP] Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli police in Jerusalem By Ammar Awad JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scores of Palestinians rioted in East Jerusalem on Sunday after hearing that a youth from their neighborhood had died of wounds suffered in a clash with... Continue Reading →
[As we have said many times, "natural" disasters are not entirely natural. They are a result of poor development. They are a result of centuries of neglect resulting from imperialism, capitalism, and feudalism. There is no reason that anyone should die from "natural" disasters anymore. The social planning and technology exists to prevent any deaths... Continue Reading →
[Libya is still in chaos after NATO and their Islamist allies deposed the Gadhafi regime. Instead of prosperity, Libya is now a land ruled by militias, warlords, and death squads. NATO has delivered the people of Libya into the hands of right-wing sectarian warlords. Without a strong central state, Libya's resources are more easily... Continue Reading →
[US trained and armed death squads assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980. Romero used his position to speak out about injustice in El Salvador. He also wrote a public letter to the President of the United States asking no more military aid be sent to the Salvadorean government that was using the aid to murder... Continue Reading →
