In Episode 121 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg notes the grim irony that on the week of International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day, Russian regime and state media figures issued blatant threats to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war. This follows criminal recklessness by Russian… Read morePodcast: Chernobyl and nuclear fear in Ukraine
The junta in Mali is accusing France of spying and subversion after the French military used a drone to film footage that Paris says shows Russian mercenaries burying bodies in a mass grave near a military base. The French government… Read more‘False flag’ plot behind Mali mass grave?
At least 150 were killed April 24 as paramilitary troops attacked a village in Sudan’s conflicted Darfur region. Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), many riding motorbikes or driving vehicles mounted with machine-guns, swept in on the village of Kereinik, torching houses and… Read moreSudan: 150 killed in new Darfur massacre
The African island nation of Mauritius exploded into angry protests April 22, with residents of poor Kreol communities erecting roadblocks and fighting the police. The island had seen days of peaceful demonstrations over a sudden and drastic increase of petrol and gas prices,… Read moreProtests over fuel price hikes shake Mauritius
In Episode 120 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg invites the enmity of his comrades on the left with a long-overdue deconstruction of the increasingly sinister, genocide-abetting politics of Noam Chomsky. In relentless sycophantic interviews, Chomsky inevitably opposes a no-fly zone… Read morePodcast: against Chomsky’s genocide complicity
Pro-democracy activist and popular radio DJ Tam Tak-chi, also known as “Fast Beat,” was found guilty April 20 of “seditious speech” and sentenced to 40 months in prison by the Hong Kong District Court. The former vice-chair of the People Power party is the first person… Read moreHong Kong activist jailed under colonial-era ‘sedition’ law
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, adopted a resolution April 14 formally recognizing the actions of the Russian armed forces in the country as genocide of the Ukrainian people. Said the MPs in a statement upon passage of the resolution: “The… Read moreUkraine formally accuses Russia of ‘genocide’
Afghanistan authorities say some 60 civilians, including five children, were killed as Pakistan launched air-strikes across the border on Khost and Kunar provinces April 15 and 16. The strikes, carried out by both missiles and warplanes, follow a series of attacks by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan… Read morePipeline plans threatened by Af-Pak border clashes
Thousands of young Mongolians with no political affiliation filled central Sukhbaatar Square in the capital Ulaanbaatar for two days of peaceful protest April 7 and 8, demanding reforms to address a long list of grievances related to taxation, inflation, job opportunities, police… Read moreYouth protests in Mongolian capital
In Episode 119 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg explores the intellectual challenge posed to Western anti-fascists by Putin’s ultra-cynical fascist pseudo-anti-fascism. Russian state media have issued a “blueprint for genocide” in Ukraine—in the perversely paradoxical name of “de-nazification.” With much… Read morePodcast: Antifa and the Azov Battalion
Moscow police on the night of April 13 broke up a concert by pianist Aleksey Lyubimov and singer Yana Ivanilova at the city’s Rassvet Cultural Center. The official reason for the raid was an anonymous bomb threat on the venue. But… Read moreRussian crackdown on Ukrainian… composers
Four journalists who worked for the independent Moscow student magazine Doxa were sentenced to two years’ “correctional labor” April 12 over an online video in which they defended the right of young Russians to engage in peaceful protest. The four—Alla… Read moreRussia: student journalists sentenced to labor
