News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Typical. The majority of North Americans think that maintaining their comfort is more important than saving the planet. This poll reflects the mindset of individualist, capitalist culture that puts one person's comfort above humanity's. -- NP] Majority Say Pipeline More Important Than Climate Change By Susan Graybeal | Yahoo! Contributor Network A new poll released... Continue Reading →
[The Assad regime has recently been winning ground against the opposition. Syria is being torn apart by imperialists and their regional proxies. The war in Syria is a proxy war between the Gulf states, Turkey, Israel, and the West against Iran, Hezbollah, and to a lesser extent Russia. Recently, the West has been accusing the... Continue Reading →
[Where is due process for the political prisoners in Guantanamo prison? -- NP] Guantanamo prison hunger strike notches up to 94 MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. military says a couple more prisoners have been designated as hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay. Lt. Col. Samuel House says 94 men are on the hunger strike, up two... Continue Reading →
[The imperialists continue to carve up Africa. They do so under the banners of so-called "peace keeping" and "democracy." The imperialists are the reason Africa has the problems of poverty and instability. To invite the imperialists in is allowing the fox into the hen house. -- NP] French defense minister visits northern Mali By BABA... Continue Reading →
[The whole planet pays for First World consumption. Capitalism is killing us all. -- NP] Scientists find Antarctic ice is melting faster CANBERRA (Reuters) - The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of... Continue Reading →
[Although Mugabe is no revolutionary, he is an anti-imperialist, a nationalist. His regime is one of the patriotic bourgeoisie. Leading Lights and anti-imperialists support Zimbabwe's attempts to resist Western domination. --NP]Zimbabwe president: No interference in new pollsBy ANGUS SHAWHARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At Zimbabwe's independence celebrations, President Robert Mugabe said Thursday his nation won't accept... Continue Reading →
Kerry pushes Turkey-Israel rapprochementBy MATTHEW LEE (AP) ISTANBUL — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged Turkey to speed up and cement an American-brokered rapprochement with Israel, and he explored with Palestinian officials new ways to relaunch Mideast peace efforts. Kerry tried to advance those second-term foreign policy priorities for President Barack Obama... Continue Reading →
[The US has been intervening in Latin America for over a century. Of course the US intervenes in all kinds of ways when the US perceives its interests threatened. Death squads and banana republics are the legacy of US attempts at spreading so called "democracy." -- NP] Chavez heir charges US is behind unrest over... Continue Reading →
[On the bright side, no more crappy Top Gun movies? --NP] Israeli official says drones could replace planes By DANIEL ESTRIN (AP) TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's air force is on track to developing drones that within four to five decades would carry out nearly every battlefield operation executed today by piloted aircraft, a high-ranking... Continue Reading →
[Typical imperialist double standards. -- NP] Pentagon chief stresses Israel's right to hit Iran By ROBERT BURNS (AP) JERUSALEM — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held out hope Sunday for a nonmilitary way to ending the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, but he also emphasized Washington's willingness to let Israel decide whether and when it... Continue Reading →
The United Fruit Co. by Pablo Neruda When the trumpet sounded, it was all prepared on the earth, the Jehovah parcelled out the earth to Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities: The Fruit Company, Inc. reserved for itself the most succulent, the central coast of my own land, the delicate waist of... Continue Reading →
[The United States overthrew the social-democratic, nationalist regime of Salvador Allende in Chile. In its place, they established a fascist, death-squad dictatorship. Pinochet's dictatorship rounded up students, intellectuals, all who questioned the regime. It terrorized workers and peasants. The fascist coup was directly backed and controlled by US intelligence agencies. --NP] Chile successfully exhumes body... Continue Reading →
