News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
(http://www.cbc.ca/) Why did so many ancient societies around the world make human sacrifices to appease the gods? A new study supports the theory that the practice may have played a key role in keeping the poor downtrodden and the elites in power. And barbaric as it sounds, human sacrifice may have created one path for more... Continue Reading →
[The shills for US imperialism in the so-called left are doing their job. ISIS and the YPG paving the way for US invasion of Syria. - NP] (http://ekurd.net/) WASHINGTON,— The Obama administration is considering sending 250 additional U.S. special forces to Syrian Kurdistan to advise Kurdish-led alliance groups as part of a broader Pentagon recommendation... Continue Reading →
[Older article, but worth reposting. This guy Sokal hoaxed himself. Shows just how bad the standards are in French pop philosophy, postmodernism, poststructuralism, etc. - NP] By Henry Samuel in Paris (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) Mr Lévy, who in France goes simply by his initials BHL, has been doing the media rounds to promote his new work, On... Continue Reading →
(The New Arab) Since the start of Syria's war in 2011, $26 million worth of antiquities have been imported to the United States from the war-torn country, according to Live Science. The news website gathered its information from US Census Bureau documents, which listed many unidentified and undated items, marked only as "over 100 years old." The documents did not reveal, however, whether... Continue Reading →
[This information should come as no surprise to anti imperialists. US Imperialism is the enemy of the world, as the Syrian people have discovered. - RR] (http://www.inquisitr.com/) by Andrew Galbreath A newly-released Hillary Clinton email published by Wikileaks has confirmed that the Obama Administration helped ignite the civil war in Syria as “the best way... Continue Reading →
[More barbarism from the Islamic State. -NP] (http://www.janes.com/) A CHRISTIAN man - identified as 68-year-old Hussein Ali Sarkar - was stabbed to death by Islamic State militants in Bangladesh's Kurigram district on 22 March, Reuters reported. Three suspects were reportedly detained by security forces. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that Sarkar... Continue Reading →
[Typical. Predictable. - NP] (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) by Helena Horton A day after Microsoft introduced an innocent Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter it has had to delete it after it transformed into an evil Hitler-loving, incestual sex-promoting, 'Bush did 9/11'-proclaiming robot. Developers at Microsoft created 'Tay', an AI modelled to speak 'like a teen girl', in order to... Continue Reading →
[Saudi Arabia is one of the most reactionary regimes in the world. It is less a traditional state than a family-owned corporation that has been entrusted to secure oil for Empire. It is now Empire's instrument to subdue the people of Yemen through a campaign of massive violence. All good people oppose Saudi Arabia and... Continue Reading →
[As Leading Lights we believe the Kurdish people have a right to defend themselves. It is unfortunate that they are opening their doors to the worst imperialist offenders to do so. No doubt the United States will use these air bases to combat Assad and push its greedy interests in the region. For more in... Continue Reading →
Delmer Berg, Last of American Volunteers in Spanish Civil War, Dies at 100 by Sam Roberts March 2nd (NY Times) Delmer Berg, the last known living veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which vainly fought against Fascism’s advance into Spain in the late 1930s, died on Sunday at his home in Columbia, Calif. He was... Continue Reading →
[All Zionist political parties are fascist. The oppressor will never willingly stop oppressing, they must be brought to heel with force. -Uziel] Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said Wednesday that no peace deal was possible for now and his country must begin unilaterally separating from the Palestinians "as much as possible" to... Continue Reading →
[Turkey, like the Gulf States and Israel, are allied with the USA against the Syria people. Fascism is on the move.. -- MP] Turkey’s nationalist 'Gray Wolves' enter Syrian fray by Fehim Taştekin is a columnist at the Turkish newspaper Radikal, based in Istanbul. He is the host of a weekly program called "SINIRSIZ" on... Continue Reading →
