The Guardian • United States
Issue #2064
Why the US is a Fascist State
Anyone who has been to Washington DC and visited the Capitol, looking up at the Dome, the viewer is treated to an imposing sight. On...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Starbucks ditches Pride for profit
WASHINGTON: Somebody tell Starbucks’s bosses that June is Pride Month. They’ve gone in the other direction. An internal memo, leaked to Starbucks Workers United (SWU)...
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Issue #2057
US-NATO air war provocation
Germany has invited the US and its other NATO allies to start the biggest war provocation in history in its airspace this week. The simulated...
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Issue #2060
Battle against book bans
NEW YORK: Bans on books centring LGBTQ+ people and people of colour are sweeping the country. Led by far-right parents and politicians claiming books dealing...
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Issue #2063
Space War?
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) between the United States and the Soviet Union sought all nations to avoid any future “land grab” leading to...
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Issue #2058
Child labour common in US
Children are our future, and they need to be taken good care of in any society. However, in the United States, child labour is common...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg, once known as “the most dangerous man in America,” died on 16th June 2023 at the age of 92. In 1969 he was...
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Issue #2037
WEASEL WORDS
plans (plænz) – we’ve got … Everyone has plans. Like “arguing for,” having plans can be a weaslish way to distract you from a total...
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Issue #2061
Tereshkova first woman in space
On 16th June 1963, at the age of 26, Valentina V Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space, a major Soviet engineering and...
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Issue #2032
Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis Sixty Years
Sixty years ago during the Cold War the world came close to a nuclear war between the two superpowers of the day, the Soviet Union...
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Issue #2060
Statement on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
We strongly condemn the ongoing extradition proceedings relating to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder under the Espionage Act and Computer Fraud Abuse Act. Assange has...
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Issue #2037
Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena
Fernandes explains Australia’s transference of subservience from the United Kingdom to the United States of America since World War II. His lucid explanation reveals that...
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Issue #2063
Call to action against war
The Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition (AAAC) is campaigning for an Australia that is committed to peace, justice and a nuclear-free world. In Australia, this starts with...
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Issue #2065
Nicaragua: the path to independence
The years under neo-liberalism in Nicaragua saw trade union rights stripped away, collective bargaining agreements junked and, as trade union strength waned, living standards plummeted....
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Issue #2062
Korean war armistice: 70 years on
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War (1951-1953). The war remains a humiliation for the US. On the 27th...
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Issue #2044
Atlanta’s Cop City
In August 2021, the City of Atlanta shocked its citizens when it announced plans to construct a US $90m police training complex in the middle...
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Issue #2065
US shapes ICC to its agenda
Anyone supposing that the newfound enthusiasm in Washington for the International Criminal Court (ICC) would open the door for justice for Palestinians ought not to...
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Issue #2060
4th July: land of the un-free
Americans love to celebrate the 4th of July, commemorating their independence from Britain in 1776. School children and adults are taught that the United States...
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Issue #2062
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SYRIA: The Syrians gave a green light last week for the United Nations to use a key crossing from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held north-west...
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Issue #2046
Call to end Cuban embargo: 63 years of suffering
On 10th February 2023, local councillors in Washington DC put up resolution PR25-0113 calling for the Biden administration to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors...
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Issue #2068
Silencing The Lambs (How propaganda works)
In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the...
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Issue #2064
The US Prison in film: A Marxist View
In the “land of the free,” millions languish in prisons in the name of law and order. The prison, as an institution, is used by...
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Issue #2045
President Biden’s new discriminatory immigration policy
On 2nd February 2023, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that of the 998 children detained at the US-Mexico, border under the President...
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Issue #2040
Solidarity with the Peruvian people
Communist and workers’ parties around the world have expressed their condemnation at the removal of Peruvian president Pedro Castillo in a right-wing coup d’état last...
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Issue #2068
Angela Y. Davis – ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’ revisited
In 1969 Dr Angela Y. Davis was fired from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for being a member of the Communist Party USA...
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Issue #2043
GERMANY: Anti-war demonstrations were held in many countries last weekend, a year after the special operation in the Ukraine started. The largest by far was...
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Issue #2049
Weasel Words
Hitler (just like) By now, everyone has heard of “Godwin’s law”, an internet saying amounting to this: if you compare someone to Hitler or the...
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Issue #2050
No weapons in space
As the US war preparations escalate, its plans for domination here on earth also extend to the weaponising of space. At the UN Conference on...
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Issue #2035
DINGO
The latest cost estimate for taxpayers of Australia’s pending nuclear submarines at more than $170 billion. Don’t be surprised when Australia’s supply of weaponry to...
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Issue #2053
US school shootings and gun manufacturing capitalism
On 29th January 1979 Brenda Spencer, a 16-year-old girl, shot and killed the principal and a custodian, and wounded eight children and a police officer...
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Issue #2056
A history of US debt
The US Congress has approved a bill to lift the country’s US$31.4 trillion debt ceiling days before its default. The day after it passed the...
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Issue #2063
PEACE NOTES
“As a colonised people, its not glamorous … you look at all the social indicators from poverty to homelessness to drug and alcohol addition, abuse,...
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Issue #2044
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA: Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel criticised the inclusion of his country in the US Department of State’s list of “States sponsor of terrorism.” “The US...
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Issue #2065
USA: Hunger and food insecurity
The United States is a net exporter of food, yet hunger is a worsening phenomenon with many Americans unable to buy basic foods, due to...
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Issue #2046
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HONDURAS: The President of Honduras has announced that the country will seek to establish diplomatic relations with mainland China instead of Taiwan. The Foreign Minister...
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Issue #2041
“Hands off the world”
On 2nd February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they...
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Issue #2047
GLOBAL BRIEFS
America: The Pentagon has blocked attempts by the US federal government to share alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
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Issue #2050
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA: The deputies of the newly constituted National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) re-elected Miguel Diaz Canel as President of the Republic of Cuba with...
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Issue #2044
US Congress passes the “Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism” Bill
On 7th February, 2023, the US House of Representatives passed the “Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism” Bill, with 219 Republicans and 109 Democrats voting for...
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Issue #2065
NATIONAL BRIEFS
UNITED NATIONS: Global prices for food commodities such as rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia pulled out...
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Issue #2039
US imperialism and the gangs of LA
By November 2022 over 58,000 people, accused of having gang affiliations had been arrested in El Salvador, filling up its already overcrowded prisons. Most arrests...
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Issue #2071
GLOBAL BRIEFS
AFRICA: Three former French colonies – Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali have formed a defensive alliance. Alliance of Sahel States (AES) aims to jointly combat...
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Issue #2050
63 years: A call to end the Cuban blockade
On 10th February 2023, local councillors in Washington DC put up resolution PR25-0113 calling for the Biden administration to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors...
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Issue #2058
US Police Violence
On 16th June the US Justice Department announced that the Minneapolis Police Department needed to be reformed. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division had launched...
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Issue #2064
The Police-Industrial-Complex
US citizens believe they have the right to representative democracy, freedom of speech, religious worship, a free press, and equality before the law with a...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
PEACE NOTES
Whose Artemis? Hannah Middleton More than 50 years after the first human stepped onto the lunar surface, the moon has become a strategic asset hosting...
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Issue #2046
GREEN NOTES
Anna Pha Humanity faces two major existential threats: climate change and nuclear war. The doomsday clock is ticking on both these threats. Ironically, the US...
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Issue #2043
Book Banning American Style
For anyone who is a book lover what is happening across the USA will be shocking. Over the past year, a nationwide campaign has removed...
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Issue #2053
GLOBAL BRIEFS
INDIA: The Indian state of Karnataka held the most crucial state election before parliamentary elections due in 2024. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered...
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Issue #2066
US spies take over
At the recent AUSMIN (Australia-United States Ministerial) talks in Brisbane, it was announced that US intelligence operatives will be integrated into Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organisation...
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Issue #2047
US maternal death rate highest in developed world
According to a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maternal mortality rose by 40 per cent at the height...
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Issue #2043
PEACE NOTES
In the latest escalation in Australia’s increasingly forceful campaign to manufacture consent for war with China, the Murdoch-owned Sky News Australia has aired a jaw-droppingly...
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Issue #2069
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton While the United States is colonising northern Australia, occupying Australian military bases and ports, bringing in nuclear submarines and nuclear-capable B52 planes, establishing...
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Issue #2044
Black troops killed by white US soldiers
There has long been a rumour in Queensland that dozens of African American troops were killed by their white officers during World War II, but...
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Issue #2072
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The second US-Pacific Summit took place in the USA. Two Pacific countries decided to stay away from the meeting – the Solomon Islands and...
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Issue #2045
Beating the war drums
Marx noted that in military state capitalism, building and operating the armed forces and the arms manufacturers is the primary activity of government. Last week...
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Issue #2055
US Military Build-up in Australia
In the upcoming Exercise Talisman Sabre war games, between the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and United States military, an expected 30,000 military personnel will participate...
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Issue #2072
Fighting with America
In September 1951, during the Korean War, Australia and New Zealand, signed the ANZUS treaty. In Fighting with America James Curran, Professor of History at...
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Issue #2067
More War Games
Australia has just hosted the Malabar Exercises which were held in Sydney and across the NSW south coast from 10th to 21st August. The naval...
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Issue #2064
DINGO
A new political force uniting left and progressive parties and other organisations with a clear pro-people agenda is needed urgently. The Communist Party is convinced...
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Issue #2065
DINGO
Some readers might remember the Michael Moore show Sicko about the US for-profit health system, where he campaigned for a patient to have a life-saving...
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Issue #2066
Talisman Sabre 23
Talisman Sabre 23 Talisman Sabre 23 came to Australia amid a blast of PR media showing big war machines whipping through the seas along our...
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Issue #2041
US Health Care – A failure at every level
In Michigan, a man falling off his bicycle had obvious injuries and I offered to drive him to a public hospital for treatment. He refused,...
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Issue #2057
GLOBAL BRIEFS
NORWAY: A new report commissioned by the Norwegian police into a deadly shooting during Oslo’s annual LGBT Pride festival last year blasted Norway’s domestic security...
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Issue #2039
The power of internationalism
27th January marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, the agreement which ended the US war on Vietnam. From 1955...
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Issue #2055
The Warfare State
The National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies has released an analysis of the militarised budget in the United States, titled “The Warfare...
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Issue #2057
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton Russia and Belarus have signed a deal to deploy Russian tactical nuclear missiles in Belarus. “In the context of an extremely sharp escalation...
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Issue #2055
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton Papua New Guinea is being pressurised by the US and Australia to join their plans for war on China. PNG’s location north of...
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Issue #2049
People’s power in the 21st Century
As year 2000 ticked over, the leaders of the United States claimed the 21st century as an “American Century” but it is unfolding more like...
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Issue #2045
NO AUKUS
Under the appalling AUKUS plan announced by US President Biden on Tuesday (Australian time), Australia will begin hosting US nuclear-powered and armed submarines from this...
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Issue #2047
Rules-based international order: Whose rules?
Having rules and keeping them sounds like a good thing. Rules keep our roads safe. All our sports have rules. Rules mean other people don’t...
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Issue #2044
Peace and Australia Post
Have you heard of the Peace Budget? If you’ve been reading News Corp or Fairfax publications this year, you won’t have seen any trace of...
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Issue #2051
Cut-and-paste US world domination
“So today I want to talk to you about how we avert war and maintain peace – and more than that, how we shape a...
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Issue #2064
Learning from Cuba
Really standing up to the US is something Australia could do, but which the vast majority of our media and both our largest political parties...
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Issue #2067
Statement in solidarity with the Communist Party of Venezuela, PCV
The Communist Party of Australia has growing concerns at the increasing actions against the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) by the use of the judiciary...
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Issue #2051
Military uses for Arnhem Space Centre
Last year the Guardian reported on the development of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in north-east Arnhem Land in the remote Northern Territory. We warned...
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Issue #2051
Selling out Australia
In recent years, former US Navy officials have played critical but secretive roles as paid advisers to Australian governments. Since 2015, six retired US admirals...
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Issue #2057
Julian Assange “close to extradition”
Julian Assange has lost his latest legal appeal against being extradited from the UK to the US. This means that there is now only one...
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