News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[The United States preparing an escalation of its role in Syria. At the same time, the United States is preparing legislation to send aid to a number of dictatorships in the region, including Bahrain, which has been killing protesters in the streets. Once again, we see the hypocrisy of US foreign policy. It is not... Continue Reading →
[Turkey has been supporting the rebellion in Syria yet uses violence against its own people. Where is the outrage over use of violence against the Turkish people? The outrage against the use of violence against the people of Bahrain? --NP] For a third day, police, protesters clash in Turkey Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Protesters hurled... Continue Reading →
[The West says next to nothing about the suppression of protests in Turkey and Bahrain, both allies of the United States. Once again, the double standard is seen. The West is about its own interests, not human rights or democracy as it claims. The West is fine with the suppression of dissent when it serves... Continue Reading →
[The Guatemalan military has long been trained and armed by the United States. An estimated 200,000 people were killed in the days when Guatemala was ruled by a CIA-backed, death-squad state. The same forces still rule Guatemala today. The poor, indigenous peoples have their rights trampled on by the comprador elites and their imperialist allies.... Continue Reading →
[Israel is making provocative moves against Lebanon and Hezbollah to put pressure on Hezbollah to remove its forces from the Syrian civil war. The West makes statements threatening Hezbollah for its involvement in Syria yet they say little about the Sunni Islamists who have come from all over the Arab world to fight against the... Continue Reading →
[Zionist terrorists not only target Muslim Palestinians, but Christians also. Where is the outrage from Christians in the United States? -- NP] Palestinian cars damaged in suspected settler attack JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Fourteen Palestinian vehicles were vandalized on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem in what appeared to be attacks by... Continue Reading →
[Indigenous peoples are still fighting colonization. Genocide since 1492... -- NP] Deadly attack stokes Chile Mapuche conflict VILCUN, Chile (AP) — The hooded men approached the ranch by night, scattering pamphlets about the death of a Mapuche Indian activist shot in the back by a policeman. The property belonged to an elderly couple who had... Continue Reading →
[The Zionists continue their genocide against the Palestinians. So brazen is their attack against the Palestinians that even John Kerry has had to speak up, albeit softly. Israel is a racist Apartheid state with no interest in allowing a Palestinian homeland to exist. Israel's policy is "yap, yap; fight, fight." They yap about the possibilities... Continue Reading →
[The United States supported, armed, finances, trained, etc. military juntas all over Latin America. Ex-dictator of the Argentina just died in prison. Dead bodies, torture and the disappeared are a legacy he shares with Uncle Sam. --NP] Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It was just about a day after... Continue Reading →
[Bourgeois justice in action. Not even too little, too late. Zip. Nada.-- NP] Guatemala top court overturns genocide conviction GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's top court has thrown another curve into the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, overturning his conviction and ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of... Continue Reading →
[It is no surprise that Ford executives worked closely with deathsquad juntas in Latin American. After all, Ford worked with Hitler's regime. Ford had personal ties to fascists in Europe. He funded anti-Semitic publications in the United States. Click here to read more. Ford was not that different than many industrialists of his day in... Continue Reading →
Syria, Israel exchange fire over border DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an Israeli patrol, damaging a vehicle and prompting its troops to fire back. The two sides appeared... Continue Reading →
