February 20, 2024
When I was still in a 401(k)-like plan and approaching age sixty-five after thirty-seven years of university teaching, I took stock of my future retirement income. I wanted to know what it would look like in terms of achieving the 70 percent of pre-retirement income that retirement experts state is necessary to maintain one’s standard of living...
February 20, 2024
"...while these diabolical schemes were taking place, it was Haiti, through its diplomatic missions, particularly in London, that was plotting against the United States..."
February 20, 2024
As a long-time, consistent analyst of this settler colonialist society, and the writer of books on many disparate topics, Horne is in a position to weigh in with some clear perspective on Israel and Historic Palestine. In an interview with Brian Becker, Horne lay out some of the specific manifestations of a shifting political climate, and argued that if anything, the bombardment of Gaza has severely backfired....
February 20, 2024
In their new book "Extraordinary Threat," Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur delve into the critical questions: What is the nature of Venezuela's government? Is it a dictatorship? Are Venezuela's problems due to misgovernment, or are they due to U.S. interference? What would happen if Venezuela fell to U.S. imperialism? How has the U.S. been able to get away with this? And above all: Taking Venezuela as a case study, how does regime change propaganda work?
February 20, 2024
‘Washington’s bullets"....Their main purpose, he says, was to “contain the tidal wave that swept from the October Revolution of 1917 and the many waves that whipped around the world to form the anti-colonial movement"....
February 20, 2024
Rather than looking out for hi-tech solutions, Wallace insists that we should learn from the international peasants’ movements such as La Via Campesina in its call for food sovereignty and resistance against global corporate trade and food regime.....
February 20, 2024
....Internationalism in the Black American community, in particular, has been critical, not least because of the potency of white supremacy on these shores. Historically, international alliances have allowed us to construct a countervailing power against our domestic foes. You see that, for example, with regards to the Haitian Revolution from 1791 to 1804, which ignites a general crisis of the entire slave system, not least in the Americas, which can only be resolved with its collapse....
February 20, 2024
To the Editor: I never thought that I’d live to see this day: a full, front-page article that exposes the realities of Palestinian life under Israel’s military rule....None of it is news to Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem or within Israel. Nor is it news to many thousands of your Jewish readers, like me, who have visited Palestine and closely followed what is happening on the ground.....
February 20, 2024
News articles have emphasized the fact that border encounters for March and April were at the highest level since 2000, but the differences between now and then are rarely mentioned. The number of Border Patrol agents has nearly doubled since the early 2000s, the agency’s budget has tripled, and most of the 650 miles of barriers now at the border were constructed after 2000. The total monthly border apprehensions may be similar, but migrants have much less chance of eluding today’s outsized enforcement apparatus....
February 20, 2024
"And so when we take these things into account, it underscores the necessity, the obligation, of internationalizing the struggle and -- not seeing 74-75 million people voting for Trump in November 2020 as some sort of aberration, but as an abomination -- that it is, that calls for more stringent measures, more stringent measures that I'm afraid to say, are now being bogged in the U.S Congress..."
