News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[As Leading Lights, the protection and preservation of the environment has always been one of our highest priorities. While Pope Francis' definition of revolution certainly differs from ours, this still comes as welcome news. As the leader of one of the world's largest religions, the Pope commands a great deal of influence, especially in many... Continue Reading →
[The spread of extremism can not just be blamed on Saudi Arabia. The legacy of European colonialism and western imperialism in the region certainly helps to create the fertile ground where these archaic ideologies can flourish. -Uziel] BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group launched his harshest criticism yet of Saudi Arabia... Continue Reading →
[The imperialists are playing a strange game. They are playing all sides to create chaos, to weaken the Third World. -- NP] There have already been been numerous reports that US led coalition planes have been air dropping supplies and weapons to Islamic State terrorists…. From Fars News Agency: Iraq’s army has shot down two... Continue Reading →
[Another cowardly, barbaric attack perpetrated by the the enemies of the People of Bangladesh. These criminals pervert Islam to silence or suppress science, reason, and progress. The People of Bangladesh will not be bullied and intimidated into submission. The way to victory is through serving the people, not butchering them in the streets. True victory... Continue Reading →
[Empire and human rights...] (Reuters) - An Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for renouncing his Muslim faith, the English-language daily Saudi Gazette reported on Tuesday. The man, in his 20s, posted an online video ripping up a copy of Islam's holy book, the Koran, and hitting it with a... Continue Reading →
BY LEITH FADEL (http://www.almasdarnews.com/) Two days after an armored convoy of reinforcements entered the city of Aleppo, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) – in cooperation with the National Defense Forces (NDF) and Kata’eb Al-Ba’ath (Ba’ath Batallions) – captured the strategic Ratyan, Hardatineen, and Bashkawi Quarters from the militants of the Islamic Front (Jabhat Al-Islamiyya). As... Continue Reading →
Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah is fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq, its chief Hassan Nasrallah revealed for the first time Monday in a speech beamed to supporters. "We may not have spoken about Iraq before, but we have a limited presence because of the sensitive phase that Iraq is going through,"... Continue Reading →
by Chavala Madlena, Hannah Patchett & Adel Shamsan 10 February 2015. (source: http://stopwar.org.uk/) “In their eyes, we don’t deserve to live like people in the rest of the world and we don’t have feelings or emotions or cry or feel pain like all the other humans.” A 13-year-old boy killed in Yemen last month by a... Continue Reading →
[A dispute between 1st worldists on gender equality for who has the right to brutalize illegally detained inmates. This is yet another example of how 1st world, liberal feminism can be used as a tool of oppression against 3rd world peoples. -Uziel] FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Some female guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison... Continue Reading →
[Brutal violence against ordinary working people, ordinary Muslims by those who have twisted the religion to serve dark-age barbarism. We must oppose those who would impose a dark-age religious tyranny to help Empire crush our people. --NP] (Reuters) - Two people died in bomb attacks in Bangladesh on Friday, raising the death toll to at... Continue Reading →
(http://www.independent.co.uk/) Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new piece of legislation to deal with terrorism generally, the Saudi King Abdullah has clamped down on all forms of political dissent and... Continue Reading →
[Israel is a rogue state that acts with impunity against its neighbors. It acts as an agent of Empire in the Middle East. This act of assassination should be condemned. - NP] By Mariam Karouny and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter strike in Syria killed a commander from Lebanon's Hezbollah and the... Continue Reading →
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