Assata Shakur: don’t believe the ‘terrorist’ hype
…appear to many as covert, and the military powers deeply imbalanced, the position of extreme conflict is nonetheless expressed. Contrary to some absurd rhetoric issued by idiotic sectors of the…
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Why I am renouncing my Project Censored award
…signatory to the UNAC statement, was called out by some of her erstwhile Palestinian comrades for her support for the Qaddafi dictatorship two years ago. But large swaths of the left in the US continue…
‘Anti-war’ movement still betraying Syrian people
…Syria is a fact, regardless of whether the US intervenes. This degree of denial isn’t surprising given the unhealthy diet of dictator-dupery dished out by the “left” (sic) media. In…
Syria: denialism delegitimizes ‘anti-war’ position
…period of grief, amid all the tough talk by western leaders, refugees believed that something would be done to punish the Syrian regime. Abu Atum, who left his village near…
NYC: Syrians march against Bashar Assad
…activist and blogger Saran al-Jijakli, when asked about the anti-intervention rally that had taken place in Times Square earlier in the day, said: “After two years of war, the left has suddenly…
Toward a progressive position on Syria
…those left-wing currents in the civil resistance that oppose US intervention, I am advocating first and foremost for SUPPORT FOR THE CIVIL RESISTANCE. Not by the US government, but by…
Iran: artist gets 12 years for political cartoon
…who else has picked it up? The arts website Hyperallergic. Who else? Fox News and the (loathsome) Breitbart. Where is the American left? Not a peep, as far as we…
Oops, it actually was kind of ‘interesting’ in Libya and Egypt…
…the consulate was overrun by protesters in Benghazi—over some wacky film dissing the Prophet Mohammed produced by some stateside Islamophobic idiots. There were similar protests at the US embassy in…
Coup d’etat at Amnesty International?
Now, this is truly depressing. We have long defended Amnesty International against “left-wing” charges that it is a front for US imperialism (ironically mirrored by establishmentarian charges that it is…
‘Anti-Semite’ de Blasio schmoozes AIPAC
…that Gorn and Stavisky left Nicaragua because they were allies of the 1937-1979 Somoza family dictatorship, “not because they were victims of anti-Semitism.” According to Siegel, “the CIA agents said…
Will Ukraine ‘go nuclear’? Looking scarier…
…Russia—Without Debate.” This is yet another parroting of Putin propaganda of the type that Cohen has been spreading all over the “left” (sic) and even mainstream media in the US since…
Tiananmen Square revisionism, East and West
…tellingly, pillars of the paleocon right as well as exponents of the sectarian idiot left have sought to deny or justify the massacre. (The egregious Workers World Party is even…