News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[US imperialism knows no shame when it comes to murdering innocent civilians around the globe. According to a recent UN report, in 2019 the United States has thus far killed more civilians than ISIS and the Taliban have in Afghanistan, demonstrating the utter hypocrisy of the US in its claims to be fighting a “war... Continue Reading →
[In the United States, Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has cast her vote in favor of the anti-BDS bill that has now passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate and is awaiting final approval by US President Trump, after which it will go into effect as an official law. The BDS... Continue Reading →
[Following the recent example of Britain’s illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar, Ukraine seized a Russian tanker at the port of Izmail in southwestern Ukraine on the 25th of July. The Ukrainian government claims the Russian-flagged tanker “Nika Spirit” was involved in the Kerch Strait incident that occurred in... Continue Reading →
[Honduran troops recently shot several students on a university campus who were protesting the privatization of healthcare and education that is taking place under the presidency of Juan Orlando Hernández. Fortunately, none of the students were killed, but some are still in the hospital. In Honduras, a country that suffers from rampant corruption, a majority... Continue Reading →
[The third anniversary of the failed coup attempt against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey falls on the 15th of July 2019. The coup attempt was organized and carried out by a faction of the Turkish military with links to the Gülen movement, an organization designated as a terrorist group by the Turkish... Continue Reading →
[The Venezuelan government has criticized a report recently released by the UN which presents distorted and misleading information about the country’s human rights situation in an attempt to blame the government of Venezuela for conditions which have been largely caused by US sanctions and the freezing of Venezuelan assets abroad. The UN report is in... Continue Reading →
[The following is an archived article from 2017 that summarizes a Wikileaks report. As was previously touched upon in our case study on Afghanistan, the capitalist class has a vested interest in the drug trade, to which a large percentage of the money-laundering has direct links; most of the generated profits are then placed in... Continue Reading →
[The United States continues its military buildup against Iran as tensions grow in the region with the recent attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman followed by the downing of a US drone which penetrated Iranian airspace despite multiple radio warnings. The US relentlessly peddles an absurd false narrative about Iranian complicity... Continue Reading →
[This revelation highlights the complete hypocrisy of the US and its lapdogs as they fabricate more reasons to start a war of aggression against Iran. It has been well known for nearly half a century that Israel, the most belligerent and aggressive actor in the region, possesses atomic weapons. And now there is evidence that... 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 →
[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 →
[The United States made the unilateral decision to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty on December 2018; the official withdrawal begins on February 2, 2019. Despite Russia consistently complying with the terms, the U.S. had always been looking for an excuse to not keep its end of the bargain. Just before the official U.S.... Continue Reading →
