[Trigger-happy pigs kill migrants. Typical. -- New Power] Trooper fired from chopper to stop truck, kills 2 By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and JUAN CARLOS LLORCA (AP) LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — A Texas state trooper who fired on a pickup truck from a helicopter and killed two illegal immigrants during a chase through the desert was... Continue Reading →
Internet rolls into Bangladesh villages on a bike
[As the masses are able to access the internet, it means that state and corporate monopolies on information breakdown. Marx long ago observed that those very forces that capitalism requires to exist end up bringing about its own downfall. For example, the capitalist mode of production requires a greater socialization of production that early modes... Continue Reading →
Syrian rebels arm Palestinians against Assad
[The "Free Syrian Army," which is armed and financed by the Gulf states and indirectly by the West, is now attacking Palestinians and Palestinian liberation groups base in Syria. Syrian conflict is not merely about Syria. The conflict represents a regional civil war between Iran, its allies, Baathists, and some pan-Arabists versus the West, Gulf... Continue Reading →
Must see video: The Panama Deception
Recently, our writers covered the recent protests in Panama. Here is some background on imperialist aggression against the people of Panama. This is a must see.
Sudan accuses Israel of air raid, threatens action
[Israel wages wars and instigates acts of war all over the region. Israel's genocide against the Palestinians is almost completely ignored in the Western media. Israel acts with almost total impunity because it has absolute backing by the United States and Europe. Israel is a racist, apartheid state. There can be no peace with such... Continue Reading →
Keep Corporate Hands Off Panama
Keep Corporate Hands Off Panama (new-power.org) Violent protests have been sparked by recent decisions by the Panamanian government to sell land in part of the duty-free Colon area of the Panama Canal. The protests were sparked by a new law that was passed, but then as pressure from the street mounted, it is now reported... Continue Reading →
Mexico raids seized campuses, battle protesters
[Everyone deserves a good education and a decent job. Capitalism is a system that is designed for profit, not people. Under socialism, by contrast, society is organized to empower the poor. Serve the people. Society is organized by the principles of revolutionary science, Leading Light Communism. Over and over, we see people starve. Farmers can't... Continue Reading →
Cardinal causes uproar with “Muslim scare” video at Vatican
[Islamophobia is alive and well in Europe. Islamophobia plays a similar role to anti-migrant, especially Latin American, sentiment in the United States. In many ways, these play the role that anti-communism played decades ago during the Cold War. All of these reactionary literatures are filled with images of commie, Mexican, narco, Islamic hordes overwhelming Christendom.... Continue Reading →
UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013
[Capitalism is not capable of solving environmental problems in the long term. Capitalism is about increasing profits. It is not about serving the people. To capitalism, people, and their environments, do not matter. Capitalism is designed to meet the needs of market, not the needs of people. The anarchy of production under capitalism is irrational... Continue Reading →
Colombia rebels opaque heading into talks
[Learn from history. "Without the people's army, the people have nothing." Leading Lights of the past, just as the Leading Light today, teach that revolution is not simply about changing the personnel in the government. Rather, it is about smashing the Old Power, including the old state, while simultaneously creating New Power. The current state... Continue Reading →
For Mass. lab chemist, an unlikely road to scandal
[It is a myth that justice is blind under capitalism. Bias, people's assumptions about society, the state, race, class, gender, etc. -- skew the process all the time. Even areas considered "hard science" are not immune. First Worldism, White supremacy, classism, racism, sexism, national chauvinism, patriarchy, age-ism, etc. all enter into the decision making process.... Continue Reading →
Freed Israeli soldier speaks of Hamas captivity
[Do you think Palestinian soldiers in Israeli captivity would be treated so well? Israeli jailors are known to torture and torment their prisoners. What about American jailors? Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo. The United States is known to torture soldiers who fight against it and even those who do not. Then there is the practice of rendition... Continue Reading →