Socialism in America

Julie Caron/iStock/Getty Images Plus Dried coca leaves What are the implications for a country when its most lucrative business is one considered illicit throughout the world? According to a report from Bloomberg Economics, cocaine is poised to become Colombia’s top export, surpassing even oil. This comes amid the South American country’s efforts to legalize the cocaine trade. Whereas oil exports...

Rather than send troops in response to the coup, France and the U.S. seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution applied in Mozambique earlier this year, writes Vijay Prashad. Only this time ECOWAS would apply force.     On July 26, Niger’s presidential guard moved against the sitting president — Mohamed Bazoum — and conducted a coup d’état. A brief contest among the...

The past week the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the US, issued guidance on the use of leftist activist symbols in public school classrooms. As part of their advice to teachers, they recommended violating district and state rules and hanging items such as pride flags and BLM flags. This is generally cited as a means to “start...

flickr.com Wayne Allen Root We have this never-ending debate in America and especially in Washington, D.C., about what works: Left or Right, liberalism or conservatism, capitalism or socialism. Well, there’s no need to debate anymore. The answer is in. We won! Yes, the debate is over. All the stats are in from a hundred directions. “The Great American Divorce” I’ve...

Since its founding, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has led the Chinese people in a bitter struggle toward national independence and popular liberation, and it has brought about the country’s rapid economic development. Every one of China’s significant achievements is inseparable from the CPC’s leadership. By adhering to the basic tenets of Marxism, the CPC has upheld and developed...

Commentary In recent months, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) have been crisscrossing the country. They are offering dueling narratives regarding the upsides of their own states while lambasting the downsides of their opponent’s states. Why are these two governors sniping at one another? Are they raising their national profiles and jockeying for position in...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, has vetoed a bill that was meant to protect children from transgender gender-change surgeries and other procedures like giving kids cross-sex hormones. House Bill 648, known as the “Stop Harming Our Kids Act,” was passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature along party lines in early June. The bill sought to prohibit hormone treatments...

Commentary Allow me to explain why we have not seen a recession yet, despite the collapse in base money supply. We are witnessing the stealth nationalization of the economy. What does this mean? The entire burden of the monetary collapse and rate hikes is falling on the shoulders of families and small businesses, while large corporations and governments are virtually...

As it did again this year, Britain hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977. Our competition entry, a song called "Rock Bottom," seemed to capture the moment. The contest itself had been delayed by five weeks because of strike action by BBC technicians. Although the lyrics were supposedly about a low point in a love affair, the fact that the...

SolStock/iStock/Getty Images Plus Those who seek tyrannical control over the masses would much rather deal with docile men than with ones willing to fight back. Understanding this provides a useful heuristic for understanding many modern social phenomena. From transgenderism to feminism to the promotion of sedentary lifestyles, a lot of the things being inculcated in people — particularly men —...

franckreporter/iStock/Getty Images Plus France is saving Mother Earth by banning domestic short-haul flights. The country’s Minister of Transportation, Clement Beaune, says this will help combat climate change by cutting carbon emissions.  The initiative came into force on May 23 and affects any flights that can be substituted with a journey by train of less than two-and-a-half hours.  Agenda 2030 Reports...

Commentary In Part I, I said China should not wake a sleeping elephant, that democracies are slow to react, but once aroused, their citizens united, those who attack them, Germany and Japan during WW II, soon wish they hadn’t. To this day the Persians wish they hadn’t attacked the Greeks at the plain of Marathon in 490 BC. Fearful of losing what they had...

Published in La Jornada (Mexico) on 28 May 2023 Translated from Spanish by Patricia Simoni. Edited by Michelle Bisson. Posted on May 31, 2023. Yesterday Henry Kissinger, the most important strategist and ideologue of U.S. imperialism since World War II, celebrated his 100th birthday. If the world were governed by justice, the multiple crimes against humanity perpetrated under his orders...

Commentary Can California further socialize the raising of children, reducing the parents’ role even more? Yes, it can. In the May Revision to his budget proposal for fiscal year 2023-24, Gov. Gavin Newsom advances what’s called “Whole Child” health care: “The state is reasonably positioned to sustain the continued multi-year implementation of the California for All Kids plan—a whole child...

Luis Miguel Trendiness should never take the place of timelessness. Not in the life of the individual, not in society, and not in a political movement that earnestly seeks to do good for society. Yet the mainstream conservative movement’s desperation to be “hip” and “relevant” in order to win over the youth vote has led to a pitiful state. Like...

Commentary On the same day the Durham report was released, revealing there was never any substance behind the Trump-Russia collusion story despite the media obsessing over it for two years, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger ironically wrote about the importance of an unbiased press. In his piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, he strongly advocates that the New York...

Shop For Night Vision | See more... Nearly 700 Professors at UNC Oppose Requiring Study of the Constitution Ryan Herron/iStock/Getty Images Plus UNC-Chapel Hill Should college students be required to study the U.S. Constitution in order to graduate? A bill pending before the North Carolina state Legislature — HB 96 — would mandate just that. Specifically, students seeking to graduate...