by By DESMOND BUTLER, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. agency's secret infiltration of Cuba's underground hip-hop groups scene to spark a youth movement against the government was "reckless" and "stupid," Sen. Patrick Leahy said Thursday after The Associated Press revealed the operation. On at least six occasions, Cuban... Continue Reading →
Not to be outdone by ISIS, Obama burns a 13-year-old Yemeni boy alive
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 →
Media targeted ‘with impunity’ in Libya
[These are just some of the fruits of the imperialist intervention into Libya. -Uziel] Tunis (AFP) - Journalists in post-revolution Libya face the constant threat of attack and have lost even the limited freedom that existed under slain strongman Moamer Kadhafi, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. A 54-page report by the New York-based rights... Continue Reading →
Kerry stresses to Iran foreign minister March nuclear deadline
[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 →
The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit
by Rakhi Chakraborty (http://yourstory.com/) “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.” ... Continue Reading →
Diplomat: US won’t curtail support for activists in Cuba
[The US cries out for human rights in other countries while ignoring its own abhorrent record at home and abroad. The imperialists will not stop their interference with Cuban affairs. What remains to be seen is the effects the thawing of relations will have on Cuba and its people. Time will tell. -Uziel] WASHINGTON (AP)... Continue Reading →
Photos: Rubbish pickers of Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, there is such great poverty that many are forces to live off garbage. This is the sad reality of capitalism. The First World is rich. The Third World barely survives: more: more: See more photos here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
The Myth of Bernie Sanders
[This is nothing new. Social-democrats have always attacked the proletariat. They have a long history of supporting imperialist war. The thing is that Sanders' politics are reflective of middle America, working America. It is not just the richest in America who are imperialist, the American population itself is. So Bernie Sanders is exactly what we... Continue Reading →
Israel issues tenders for new settler homes ahead of election
[While Israel's extinction agenda is carried out against the Palestinians, the United States merely "criticizes". The hypocrisy of the imperialists continues to run deep. -Uziel] JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel published tenders on Friday for the construction of 450 new housing units in occupied Palestinian territory, a move that critics denounced as a political gesture ahead... Continue Reading →
1945: Auschwitz death camp liberated
[The fascists murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, political dissidents, including communists. The Red Army saved the world from Hitler's genocidal tyranny. -- NP] (Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/) The Red Army has liberated the Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland. According to reports, hundreds of thousands of Polish people, as well as Jews from a number... Continue Reading →
Reality Show Sends Fashion Bloggers to Work in Cambodian Sweatshop
[LOL - NP] (Source: http://www.ecouterre.com/reality-show-sends-fashion-bloggers-to-work-in-cambodian-sweatshop/) by Jasmin Malik Chua , 01/23/15 A young blonde woman weeps openly on camera, her manicured fingers perched wanly against her cheekbones. “I can’t take it any more,” she sobs in Norwegian. “What sort of life is this?” Her name is Anniken Jørgensen, one of three 17-year-old fashion bloggers who “star”... Continue Reading →
Firebomb attacks kill two in worsening Bangladesh unrest over vote
[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 →