News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Israel is a racist, militarized apartheid society propped up by US and Western aid and support. The racist state could not exist there without external support. Israel and its allies are perpetuating a slow-motion genocide against all Palestinians, both Christian, Muslim, and even Jew. This is a genocide that is armed and financed by the... Continue Reading →
[Capitalist consumption is out of control. It is leading the planet toward ecological collapse. --NP] UN study: Electrical waste up by third by 2017 BERLIN (AP) — The mountain of refrigerators, cellphones, TV sets and other electrical waste disposed of annually worldwide is forecast to grow by a third by 2017, according to a U.N.... Continue Reading →
[The new scramble for Africa is on. Imperialist powers are seeking to reconquer Africa under the guise of peacekeeping and anti-terrorism. --NP] France pushing EU to fund military interventions PARIS (AP) — France is pushing its European partners this week to create a fund to pay for overseas military interventions, like the operation France is... Continue Reading →
[The US imperialists are seeking to reassert their power in South Asia. They are working more closely with the revisionist fake-communist regime of Vietnam. It is only a few decades since the people's war in Vietnam ousted the imperialists, now the revisionists have let them come back. -- NP] U.S. offers help to South East... Continue Reading →
[The Security-industrial complex is growing. Both Democrats and Republicans have thrown their support behind a growing high-tech state that seeks to monitor and control dissident populations. -- NP] Judge: NSA spying ‘almost Orwellian,’ likely unconstitutional (yahoonews) In a stinging rebuke to President Barack Obama’s surveillance policies, a federal judge on Monday branded the National Security... Continue Reading →
[The USA has been waging a secret bombing war in Yeman, killing thousands of civilians. The US has blacklisted and encouraged the imprisonment of those reporters who report on the human rights abuses by the USA there. It is a secret, dirty war that needs to be exposed. The popular outcry against the mass death... Continue Reading →
[The US-backed dictatorial monarchy in Bahrain is so brutal that even bourgeois human rights groups have criticized its actions. While the US claims to support democracy, it props up one of the bloodiest dictatorships in the Middle East. --NP] Amnesty accuses Bahrain of torturing detained children Dubai (AFP) - Amnesty International accused Bahrain on Monday... Continue Reading →
[Israel is a racist apartheid state that is kept in power by imperialist aid from the USA and Europe. Whenever it is criticized, zionists accuse their critics as "anti-semites." The truth is that zionism is racism. Zionism and all racism needs to be wiped off the map. -- NP] US researchers body votes to boycott... Continue Reading →
High prospects for Uruguay's legal marijuana business (new-power.org) MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay's pioneering move to legalize the planting and sale of marijuana opens the door for a clandestine cottage industry of pot growers to transform into a legitimate business that could even export medical cannabis, a commodity in short supply. More and more countries are... Continue Reading →
NSA 'planned to discredit radicals over web-porn use' (BBC NEWS) The US authorities have studied online sexual activity and suggested exposing porn site visits as a way to discredit people who spread radical views, the Huffington Post news site has reported. It published a document, leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, identifying... Continue Reading →
[Israel is a racist society with racism officially sanctioned in its apartheid laws and Constitution. Israel would not exist without the USA. The USA sends massive military and economic aid to Israel to finance their genocide against the Palestinians, -- NP] Israel police kill Palestinian in raid on illegal migrants Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli border... Continue Reading →
Over 50,000 illegal Ethiopian workers sent home from Saudi Arabia Addis Ababa (AFP) - Ethiopia has flown home over 50,000 citizens in Saudi Arabia after a crackdown against illegal immigrants in the oil-rich state, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. "We projected the initial number to be 10,000 but it is increasing," foreign ministry spokesman Dina... Continue Reading →
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