News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
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 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 →
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 →
[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 →
[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 →
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 →
[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 →
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/
[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 →
[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 →
