News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[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 →
[It is no secret that Saudi Arabia, the other Gulf monarchies, and [post-Nasserist] Egypt are NATO-aligned client states which assist in carrying out U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, along with Israel. Sitting on top of an extraordinary amount of oil wealth, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in particular, assists the U.S. in plundering... Continue Reading →
[On August 25th, 2018, Senator and former U.S. Republican Presidential candidate John McCain died at the age of 81; he was diagnosed with brain cancer last year on July 2017. Given the current climate of identity politics in the Trump Era, “anti-war” liberals have gone as far as to rehabilitate once-widely reviled war criminals such... Continue Reading →
[Yet another atrocity carried out by the Saudi-led coalition against the people of Yemen. Despite the growing humanitarian crisis, the situation in Yemen still seems to be largely ignored by western media outlets when compared to other conflicts. This omission is most likely due to these imperialist governments' desire to downplay their support and active... Continue Reading →
By Dylano Williams US President, Donald J. Trump is expected to visit London on the 13th of July amidst significant public opposition. Such opposition ought to be manifested in a phenomenal mass demonstration in London. It is expected by the Stop the War Coalition UK to reach up to two million demonstrators: “Polling suggests that... Continue Reading →
[The Leading Light Communist Organisation (LLCO) hopes countries that have managed to operate outside of US/NATO tutelage will respond to any deal or concession offered by the empire of the United States with relentless suspicion. The US is not trying to limit Iran’s nuclear programme to maintain peace and regional stability. It is trying to... Continue Reading →
What can the ‘Yinon Plan’ tell us about the events in the Middle East By Dylano What is the Yinon Plan? “The area of the Jewish State stretches: From the Book of Egypt to the Euphrates” -Theodore Herzl (1) On the 9th July 1947, member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Rabbi Fischmann put forward... Continue Reading →
[Last week, we booted up New Power after a long absence with a look into the conflict in Yemen. We discussed how the US imperial policy is to outsource the dirty work of conventional warfare to local thugs such as the Saudi Crown. Today we provide more evidence to this fact. These articles will hopefully... 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 →
[Israeli involvement in the genocide of Third World peoples -- NP] (HAARETZ ) The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the denial of a Freedom of Information request to make public documents about Israeli defense exports to Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide in that country. In 2014, attorney Eitay Mack and... Continue Reading →
[The shills for US imperialism in the so-called left are doing their job. ISIS and the YPG paving the way for US invasion of Syria. - NP] (http://ekurd.net/) WASHINGTON,— The Obama administration is considering sending 250 additional U.S. special forces to Syrian Kurdistan to advise Kurdish-led alliance groups as part of a broader Pentagon recommendation... Continue Reading →
(The New Arab) Since the start of Syria's war in 2011, $26 million worth of antiquities have been imported to the United States from the war-torn country, according to Live Science. The news website gathered its information from US Census Bureau documents, which listed many unidentified and undated items, marked only as "over 100 years old." The documents did not reveal, however, whether... Continue Reading →
