News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Zimbabwe is suffering from a severe drought combined with a severe economic crisis. An overwhelming majority of young children in the country are malnourished, and there has been a recent increase in the number of children who have died due to severe malnutrition. The tragic situation in Zimbabwe can be largely attributed to economic underdevelopment... Continue Reading →
[The situation in Yemen continues to deteriorate due to brutal aggression by the Saudi-led military coalition which receives intelligence and logistical support from the United States. Amidst widespread malnutrition, epidemics of cholera and diphtheria, tens of thousands injured, and the destruction of its water and sanitation infrastructure, Yemen has run out of fuel and must... Continue Reading →
[There was a recent clash in the Central region of Ghana between cocoa farmers and the staff of a palm oil plantation company when bulldozers showed up unannounced and began bulldozing the area, destroying the farmers’ cocoa trees in the process, to make way for palm trees that the company intends to grow. According to... Continue Reading →
[The article below details how environmental destruction, poverty, and economic crises are rooted in the imperialist nations' problems of overconsumption and unequal wealth distribution. The neo-Malthusian narrative about "useless eaters" and that the world has an "overpopulation" problem is beneficial to the capitalist class because when all focus and blame is shifted away from the... Continue Reading →
[Genuine aid would be unconditional and impartial. Retinal scanning and facial recognition technology should not be a necessary component of a food aid operation. Clearly there are ulterior motives for such a move. It turns out that the largest donors to the WFP (the program responsible for food aid in Yemen) are the same barbarous... Continue Reading →
[Recently the Venezuelan government has rightfully rejected the U.S.-backed “humanitarian aid” convoys’ attempts to infiltrate the country through the Colombian and Brazilian borders. These convoys are nothing more than ‘Trojan Horses’, and pretexts for a U.S.-led military invasion against the country. They are also deliberate provocations against Venezuela, for the convoys are carrying anti-Maduro right-wing... Continue Reading →
[We are bombarded with stories of inhuman atrocities in Syria, of children suffering and indiscriminate bombing. While this is clearly horrible the Western media turns a blind eye to the situation in Yemen. In Yemen, the backwards monarchy of Saudi Arabia carries out air-delivered butchery in hopes of crushing the Houthi rebels. The Saudi invaders... Continue Reading →
[Although boycotts aren't a good tool for social change, this article contains important truth behind imperialist corporations and First World lifestyles. Sweet tooths are based on slavery. -LL] Beware of These 10 Popular Chocolate Brands that Exploit Child Slaves by Nathan Wellman (http://usuncut.com/) Americans spend over a billion dollars every Halloween on chocolate, accounting for... Continue Reading →
[Northern Korea received more aid form the US than any other Asian country during much of the 1990s. Today, northern Korea receives support from the UN. Despite claims to the contrary, the regime is hardly self sufficient. --NP] WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Food Program may have to shut down its operations in North Korea... Continue Reading →
[Unfortunately, this article went to our spam folder for some reason. We just noticed it in there. We regret that we did not see it earlier. Our apologies to the author. -- NP] The Bali Package By Red Lion (new-power.org) The Bali Package is a trade agreement that was signed on December 2013 by the... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism is a system that causes billions of deaths: genocide, structural poverty, endless wars, famine, curable diseases, etc. Capitalism is a nightmare. We must wake the people up. Their future, the future of their children, the entire planet depends on it. Revolution is a necessity. --NP] Remembering India’s forgotten holocaust by Rakesh Krishnan Simha (http://www.tehelka.com)... Continue Reading →
[The poor of the Third World starve while the First World people throw food into the garbage. -- NP] UN: One-third of food worldwide gets wasted ROME (AP) — The U.N. food agency says one-third of all food produced in the world gets wasted, amounting to a loss of $750 billion a year. The Rome-based... Continue Reading →
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