News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
Bowe Bergdahl Wrote Before Capture: ‘I Am Ashamed to Be an American’ (www.mediaite.com) U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, recently released from years of Taliban captivity following the negotiation of a deal to swap him for the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees, allegedly deserted his fellow soldiers just prior to being captured by Taliban fighters.... Continue Reading →
[India's people suffer. Imperialism, capitalism, feudalism, patriarchy, caste, have created a brutal system where India's poor lived in terror. India's poor suffer daily violence from the system. The only answer is for them poor to make their voices heard, to raise their fists, to raise their weapons, to take power and smash the system. Revolution... Continue Reading →
Activists: Morocco back to pre-Arab Spring abuses RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Ouafa Charaf was heading home from a solidarity sit-in with a group of laid off workers in the northern port city of Tangiers, she says, when a small white van pulled up and two men forced her into the back and blindfolded her. "They... Continue Reading →
[First Worldist, imperialist military gets even more high-tech. It is important for Leading Light people's warriors to develop strategies for countering new imperial technologies. Wars of the future will not look like wars of the past. We must adapt to counter new threats. -- NP] U.S. Military's 'Iron Man' Suit Prototype Debuts This Month (livescience)... Continue Reading →
[Marx wrote that part of why capitalism was so revolutionary is that it unleashed the productive forces, technology. However, there comes a point where the capitalist system of economic, social, power relations begins to hinder further advance. It is easily within our ability to provide a decent, creative, fun, dignified life for everyone on the... Continue Reading →
[Israel is a racist society that has waged a genocide against the Palestine people for over half a century. As a proxy state of US imperialism, Israel has waged nonstop war against its neighbors since it was founded. The genocide of the Palestinians is bought for and paid by Uncle Sam. --NP] Israel Arabs rekindle... Continue Reading →
[Private spooks illegally spying using social networking.. NP] US contractors profiled 'Cuban Twitter' responses As part of a program shrouded in secrecy to build a "Cuban Twitter" on the Communist-governed island, Cambronero profiled Cuban cellphone users, categorizing them as "pro-revolution," ''apolitical" or "anti-revolutionary." The social media network, paid for by the U.S. Agency for International... Continue Reading →
[Don't agree with 100% on the part on Stalin. The video falls into liberal Trotskyist cliches without much evidence. If Stalin were put on trial, he too would be found not guilty. Leading Lights like Lenin and Stalin lived through very difficult times. They had to face challenges that few leaders ever do. They led... Continue Reading →
[Imperialist forces have sought to use the Venezuela's military against the nationalist regime of Chavez. The CIA sought to overthrow the Chavez regime in a coup in 2002. It is no secret that the US seeks to create chaos and overthrow the current regime there. The US has voiced its support for the opposition many... Continue Reading →
[We must oppose all attempts by the imperialists to expand their abilities to threaten the world with nuclear destruction. --NP] Argentine leader claims Falklands a NATO nuclear base Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentine President Cristina Kirchner claimed Wednesday that the Falkland Islands serve as a nuclear base for the NATO alliance in the South Atlantic.... Continue Reading →
[Israel's genocide against the Palestinians continues. As usual, little or no action from the international community to oppose the genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a genocide bankrolled by the USA and other Western powers. -- NP] Group: Israel moving forward with settlement homes JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is pushing forward with plans to... Continue Reading →
["Good riddance!" to unhealthy bad food.. -- NP] McDonald's to go: US fast food chain shuts doors in Crimea Simferopol (Undefined) (AFP) - Crimeans discovered to their chagrin Friday that they would have to live without Big Macs for a while after McDonald's suspended operations on the Ukrainian peninsula due to its annexation by Russia.... Continue Reading →
NEW POWER 