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Book Review: Border Crossings by “Manuel Tiago” (Alvaro Cunhal), reviewed by Peter Lownds

‘Border Crossings’: Small episodes of the epic fight against fascism in Europe by Peter Lownds Local L.A. activist and writer Eric A. Gordon’s recent translation, Border Crossings (New York: International Publishers, 2021) is one of a series of fictional books written by Manuel Tiago, the nom de plume of Álvaro Cunhal (1913-2005), a beloved radical who held various posts in the Portuguese Communist Party, both before and after the fall of the [...]

By |2022-03-07T23:31:47-05:00March 7th, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Europe, Historical, Movements, Reviews, Russia, Socialism, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Blood on their Hands

War in Ukraine: US, NATO Share the Blame with Putin by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA https://antiracist.org/blood-on-their-hands/ Putin's valid criticism of a US "Empire of Lies" and of NATO war-making and warmongering do not add up to a justification of the Russian invasion. Consortium News shares Putin’s rationale here: https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/  I recommend reading it to understand Putin's rationale, not to support it. Much of Putin’s condemnation of US and NATO aggression since the [...]

By |2022-03-02T01:50:37-05:00March 2nd, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Biden, Europe, Human Rights, Independent Media, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Solidarity, War|0 Comments
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After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump’s Foreign Policy?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst impacts. As a senior member of the Obama administration, Biden surely needed no schooling on Obama’s diplomatic agreements with Cuba and Iran, both of which began to resolve long-standing foreign policy problems and provided models for the renewed emphasis [...]

By |2022-02-01T16:21:21-05:00February 1st, 2022|Activism, Biden, China, Climate Change, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Elections, Europe, Immigration/Migrant rights, Medea Benjamin, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Obama, Palestine, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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The High Stakes of the US-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies https://www.codepink.org/the_high_stakes_of_the_us_russia_confrontation_over_ukraine A report in Covert Action Magazine from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine describes grave fears of a new offensive by Ukrainian government forces, after increased shelling, a drone strike by a Turkish-built drone and an attack on Staromaryevka, a village inside the buffer zone established by the 2014-15 Minsk Accords. The People’s Republics of  Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk (LPR), which [...]

By |2021-12-02T01:35:06-05:00December 2nd, 2021|Biden, Commentary, Europe, Historical, Medea Benjamin, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity, War|0 Comments
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The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Empire

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies In 2004, journalist Ron Susskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove, as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” He dismissed Susskind’s assumption that public policy must be rooted in “the reality-based community.” “We’re history’s actors,” the advisor told him, “…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” [...]

By |2021-02-03T13:08:41-05:00February 3rd, 2021|Afghanistan, Biden, California, Donald Trump, Economy, Historical, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Medea Benjamin, Movements, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Russia, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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Eisenhower’s Warning on Military-Industrial Complex More Apt than Ever

Eisenhower's Ghost Haunts Biden's Foreign Policy Team By Nicolas J. S. Davies   In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony  Blinken said, “we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new administration, and Americans should too.   Biden's foreign policy team will also need a special kind of confidence to confront the most serious challenge they face. [...]

By |2020-12-02T14:07:19-05:00December 2nd, 2020|Biden, Big Business, Commentary, Constitution, COVID-19, Economy, Haiti, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Movements, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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People Get Ready

People Get Ready:  There's a Bad Moon on the Rise by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA (https://antiracist.org) As you read this, there is barely a month to election day. What are you doing to prepare for the possible outcomes and their consequences? Given recent realities, including vehicles being driven at racial justice protesters here in L.A., the murder of two protesters in Kenosha, exposures of organized racist violence being planned in Portland, the repeated [...]

By |2020-10-03T18:19:27-05:00October 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, Commentary, Constitution, COVID-19, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economy, Elections, Environment, Gentrification/Displacement, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Labor, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Palestine, Peace and War, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Surveillance, Unity, Voting, War|0 Comments
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King Joe and the Round Table: Biden’s USA in a Multi-Polar World 

King Joe and the Round Table: Biden’s USA in a Multi-Polar World  by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies In an article in Foreign Affairs in March titled, “Why America Must Lead Again,” Joe Biden claimed that “the world doesn’t organize itself,” and promised to “put the U.S. back at the head of the table” among the nations of the world. But the premise that the world can only organize itself [...]

By |2020-08-01T18:23:50-05:00August 1st, 2020|Activism, Afghanistan, China, Donald Trump, Economy, Europe, Historical, Latin America, Medea Benjamin, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Obama, Palestine, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Solidarity, Syria|0 Comments
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Sanctions Kill at All Times – End the Sanctions on Iran, Venezuela

Why Sanctions During a Pandemic are Cruel by Vijay Prashad – Paolo Estrada - March 18, 2020 Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing across continents, skipping over oceans, terrifying populations in every country. The numbers of those infected rises, as do the numbers of those who have died. Hands are being washed, tests are being done, and social distance has become a new phrase. It is unclear how devastating this pandemic will [...]

By |2020-03-23T15:27:04-05:00March 23rd, 2020|Activism, Commentary, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, Peace and War, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Venezuela, Vijay Prashad|0 Comments
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Julian Assange will never obey Big Brother

Julian Assange will never obey Big Brother Speech by John Pilger, March 3, 2019 httpss://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/04/pilg-m04.html Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no natural light. The air is still and fetid. This is Room 101. Before [...]

By |2019-04-01T23:18:23-05:00April 1st, 2019|Commentary, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Independent Media, Movements, National Security, News, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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Trump’s Real War May Come On Heels of Trade Wars

by Yonden Lhatoo It’s time to be afraid, very afraid, with John Bolton as the United States’ new national security adviser. Of all the specimens of unhinged humanity in the purported pool of talent he’s been dipping into, Trump had to pull out the most reviled and discredited one. While Trump has publicly decried the Iraq invasion of 2003 as “a waste of blood and treasure” – both a reasonable admission of [...]

By |2018-03-28T21:12:38-05:00March 28th, 2018|Donald Trump, Independent Journalism, National Security, News, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity, War|0 Comments
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Pentagon Strategy for Military Confrontation with Russia and China

Pentagon Strategy for Military Confrontation with Russia and China By Bill Van Auken [excerpts] httpss://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/20/ndst-j20.html Trump’s defense secretary, former Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, rolled out a new National Defense Strategy in Jan. that signals open preparations by US imperialism for direct military confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia and China. Mattis made clear that the strategy, the first such issued by the Pentagon in roughly a decade, represented a shift from the justification [...]

By |2018-01-25T01:19:37-05:00January 25th, 2018|China, Nuclear Power, Peace, Peace and War, Russia, Security and Insecurity, War|0 Comments
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