News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[The US currently has a hand in almost every major conflict on the globe. As of 2013 the US Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, has been operating in 134 countries. -Uziel] RIYADH/ADEN (Reuters) - The United States is speeding up arms supplies and bolstering intelligence sharing with a Saudi-led alliance bombing a militia aligned with... Continue Reading →
["Resistance is not terrorism." Of course the imperialists don't see it that way. -Uziel] Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Hamas on Friday denounced a European Union decision to keep the Palestinian Islamist group and de facto Gaza Strip ruler on its terrorism blacklist, despite a court ordering its removal. "This decision completely contradicts the... Continue Reading →
[Once again ISIS shows its ignorance and blatant disregard for history and culture. If these crimes weren't so damaging to our shared human history, they would almost be comical in their stupidity, akin to book burnings. -Uziel] Baghdad (AFP) - Condemnation poured in Friday of the Islamic State group's bulldozing of the ancient city of... Continue Reading →
[Israel, the only nuclear armed country in the region, has proven time and time again that it is indeed the greatest threat to peace in the Middle East. It engages in near constant aggression against its neighbors and is actively carrying out genocide against the people of Palestine. The presence of an Iranian bomb may... 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 →
[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 →
[The real war criminals are the imperialists who destabilized Syria, then armed and trained the al-Nusra Front and ISIS. Any ad hoc tribunal would be a farce without including as suspects: the United States, NATO, and their Mideast allies. -Uziel] GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations war crimes investigators plan to publish names of suspects involved... 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 →
[This piece points out that the Palestinian victims of Israeli aggression are mainly civilians. It is rare to see a western, mainstream news outlet make such a report. While the Associated Press has traditionally been viewed as one of the few sources in the mainstream western media that isn't blatantly pro-Israel, one can hope that... 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 →
[The only country in the world that has used atomic weapons on human beings is leading the charge on preventing Iran from pursuing its nuclear program. Once again the hypocrisy of the imperialists is on display. -Uziel] Munich (Germany) (AFP) - Secretary of State John Kerry stressed to his Iranian counterpart Friday that the US... Continue Reading →
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