News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[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 →
[The poor of the Third World should not look to Madonna or any other liberal do-gooder to save them. The poor of the Third World do not need so-called NGOs. They do not need charity. They need liberation. They need political power. They need the power to build their own schools. If Madonna were serious... Continue Reading →
[The United States is still using Kony as its bogeyman in order to extend its presence, both militarily and economically, into Africa. The United States and other imperialists have killed far more, done more damage, than Kony. This is yet another imperialist smokescreen. Kony 2012 was a psywar campaign aimed at generating support for imperialist... Continue Reading →
UN says not enough people in Haiti eating enough (AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United Nations says a growing number of Haitians are not getting enough to eat. The U.N. mission in the Caribbean nation of 10 million people said in a monthly bulletin Tuesday that a spike in malnutrition has been recorded in... Continue Reading →
[The United States throws away due process when it suits their interest. --NP] US won't allow Russians to see Guantanamo prisoner By BEN FOX (AP) MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. won't grant Russia access to one of its citizens held at the Guantanamo Bay prison because the prisoner refuses to meet with the delegation from... Continue Reading →
