WHY WE FIGHT
From the New York Daily News, Jan. 4: Delaware woman in wheelchair is hit by three cars and left to die A Delaware woman trying to cross a roadway in her wheelchair was killed Tuesday night after three cars struck… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Author: Bill Weinberg
North America
Philip Weiss shills for fascistic demagogue Ron Paul —again
The headlong rush by so-called “leftists” and “progressives” to abandon principle by jumping on the racist, xenophobic, anti-woman, laissez-faire capitalist Ron Paul bandwagon is dealt another disgraceful advance by MondoWeiss.
North America
Glenn Greenwald, Robert Scheer shill for arch-reactionary Ron Paul
Glenn Greenwald and Robert Scheer join the ranks of supposed progressives to sing the praises of Ron Paul—minimizing his radical deregulationist, xenophobic, Christian-conservative and generally anti-freedom agenda.
Iran
Will Iraq pull-out spark war with Iran?
The US “withdrawal” from Iraq comes as the Pentagon is set to augment its troop presence in the Persian Gulf region, Iran threatens to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, and the price of oil nears $100 a barrel.
North America
Ron Paul and the shame of the “left”
It is a sad day indeed. The “leftist” website CounterPunch gushes enthusiasm for Ron Paul—while it is left to the New York Times to uphold anti-racist principles by calling him out on his hateful outbursts and support from neo-Nazis.
North America
Ron Paul’s xenophobic “anti-war” ad
Despite his lukewarm disavowals of “past” ugly racism, “progressives” continue to plug Ron Paul because of his supposed anti-war creds—oblivious to the fact that he even casts his anti-war message in ugly xenophobic terms.
Afghanistan
Af-Pak between two poles of terrorism
Three-year old Shakira, disfigured by a drone strike on her Pakistani village, has just arrived in Houston for surgery. Yet, unlike the woman whose nose was cut off by the Taliban, she will not be exploited for propaganda, at least.
East Asia
Next: North Korean Spring?
Amid concern about stability on the Korean peninsula after the passing of Kim Jong Il, few recall that the DPRK saw a brief wave of protests over economic conditions back in February—just as the Arab Spring was gaining ground.
Watching the Shadows
“Terrorism” conviction for translating agitprop
Media accounts portray Tarek Mehanna as a dangerous conspirator—but he never actually received “terrorist training” in Yemen, and the texts he apparently translated were al-Qaeda propaganda videos.
North America
Ron Paul: oil company shill
Ron Paul wants to privatize the national parks, abolish the EPA and open up virtually all offshore waters to BP and Exxon. Why are so-called “progressives” continuing to shill for this shill of Big Oil and the resource industries?
The Andes
Venezuela, Bolivia: protecting or fighting the cartels?
Even as the White House censures Venezuelan officials for “narco-terrorist” ties, the Hugo Chávez government handed a top Colombian drug trafficking suspect, Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco AKA “Valenciano,” over to US authorities.
Iraq
Iraq: the war is not over!
Despite White House and media crowing about the “end of the war” in Iraq, in fact war continues throughout the country. The day of the US “withdrawal” saw deadly car bombings and oil pipeline blasts that shut production in Basra.