Police fire teargas on China village after land grab protest (Reuters) HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese security forces fired tear gas and beat protesters in a village in southern China on Sunday to quell a grassroots protest movement over a land dispute, residents said. Dozens of villagers were taken to hospitals in Mianhu town and... Continue Reading →
Recent heat spike unlike anything in 11,000 years
Recent heat spike unlike anything in 11,000 years By SETH BORENSTEIN (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike. Research released Thursday in the journal Science uses fossils of tiny marine... Continue Reading →
Chavez, you will be remembered.
We just learned that Hug Chavez, President of Venezuela, has passed from cancer. Although we had our differences with Chavez, he was a progressive and important force in the world. -- New Power
‘People want Assad to stay’
[The Baathist regime in Syria is not socialist nor consistently anti-imperialist. Even so, the reporting on the regime in the media has been extremely one-sided. The conflict in Syria is one largely manufactured by outside forces. The West and its Libyan, Turkish, Israel, and Gulf allies are fighting a proxy war in Syria against Iran's... Continue Reading →
Guatemala judge postpones ex-general’s hearing
[Not only do the death squads and local military deserve punishment, the entire US military-intelligence-political establishment deserve punishment for their role in the establishment of death-squad states in Latin America amongst many other atrocities. -- NP] Guatemala judge postpones ex-general's hearing (AP) GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan judge has again postponed a hearing to... Continue Reading →
Soldiers stole children during El Salvador’s war
[The United States financed and backed the brutal regime in El Salvador during its genocidal war against the poor and indigenous communities there. Tens of thousands died. Many thousands murdered by US-trained "death squads." Even decades later, more and more atrocities committed by US-backed forces are being exposed. After disarming, the Soviet-backed FMLN guerrillas that... Continue Reading →
Qatar poet remains in prison for ‘offensive’ verse
[The United States and its allies silence dissent when it is to their advantage. They claim to support human rights. However, such claims are just a smokescreen for advancing imperialist interest. -- NP] Qatar poet remains in prison for 'offensive' verse By ABDULLAH REBHY (AP) DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A poet jailed for a verse... Continue Reading →
Dubai officials block Bahrain-based AP journalist
[The United States is the major military backer of the Gulf states. The Gulf states along with the West are in a proxy war against Iran, which is why the West and their allies support the oppression of the Shia majority in Bahrain by the dictatorship there. The United States claims to support free speech,... Continue Reading →
Palestinians bury man who died in Israeli custody
[Israel is an illegitimate, racist, apartheid country. The genocide against the Palestinians by the Zionists is financed and armed by the West, especially the United States. --NP] Palestinians bury man who died in Israeli custody By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH (AP) SAEER, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian man who died under disputed circumstances in Israeli custody... Continue Reading →
Sri Lanka security forces rape, torture Tamil detainees: group
[The Sri Lankan regime brutally oppresses the Tamil population so much so that even bourgeois human rights organizations have noticed. -- NP] Sri Lanka security forces rape, torture Tamil detainees: group By Nita Bhalla (Reuters) NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces have used rape to torture and extract confessions from suspected Tamil separatists... Continue Reading →
Maoists had enough with Communism, now say Nepal to go capitalist
[We at LLCO were the first to really call out the revisionism in Nepal's Maoist movement and Prachanda Path. We told you so. While all kinds of fake communists failed to call them out, we took the correct line. That is what scientific thinking is, willingness to use revolutionary science, Leading Light Communism, even when... Continue Reading →
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