The Guardian • US
Issue #1989
China-US relations seek to chart new course
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping opened dialogue in a virtual summit for over three hours on 16th November
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Issue #1952
Russia denounces Biden for only giving them “a few minutes of warning” before the US attack on Syria
The attack ordered by US President Joe Biden against Syria received condemnation from Damascus and Moscow ...
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Issue #1990
China, Russia jointly decry US democracy summit, call for past lessons to be remembered
A joint article by the Chinese and Russian Ambassadors to the US decrying the so-called Summit for Democracy is a clear declaration of opposition to the upcoming event.
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Issue #1962
American democracy is dominated by money
Does the US want democracy or money-dominated democracy?
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Issue #1957
Farmworkers need families, not deportation and exploitation
During the Trump administration, the US deported an average of 275,725 people per year, almost the same number of workers – 257,667 – brought by growers last year to labour in US fields.
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Issue #1959
No crime lasts a hundred years
Twitter’s news feed did not stop. Facebook played live videos, one after another.
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Issue #1968
Loyalty oaths for teachers in Florida’s new red scare
The Red Scare is back in Florida.
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Issue #1972
Study reveals shocking decline in life expectancy in the US
The United States life expectancy fell by more than a year, from 78.8 years to 77.3 years, during the first half of 2020.
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Issue #1977
Free Meng campaign marks 1000 days of incarceration
Thursday, August 26, 2021, marked the 1000th day of unjust incarceration by the Trudeau government of Meng Wanzhou.
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Issue #1978
Don’t believe all that you hear — here’s what’s really going on in Cuba
The emails kept coming in … from farmers and students and chefs and academics whom I’d taken to that tiny island country over the past two decades to learn about her leadership in sustainable agriculture, cooperatives, and growing food in cities
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Issue #1970
End of the forever war?
The United States’ longest war has officially come to an end.
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Issue #1977
Afghanistan: no clean end to a dirty war
The Russian Foreign Ministry was the first to announce [last month] that a suicide attack outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport killed at least two people and wounded fifteen more.
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Issue #1959
Xi calls for “unprecedented ambition, action” to build community of life
We should protect nature and preserve the environment like we protect our eyes.
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Issue #1974
How to read Donald Duck: imperialist ideology in the Disney comic
One of the first acts committed by the Chilean military, after the coup of 11 September 1973 was to confiscate and burn books.
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Issue #1963
The US’ unilateral coercive policies and the truth about Venezuela
Washington’s aggression against Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and other countries is a flagrant violation of human rights.
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Issue #1947
Storming the Capitol: staging a farce
On the 6th January 2021, the US Capitol was overrun by various factions of Trump supporters under the false pretence that the recent election had been rigged.
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Issue #1948
Will we follow our allies this time?
It might be a good idea to return – in January 2022 – to the promises that Joe Biden made on his first day as President of the United States of America on the 20th of January 2021.
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Issue #1980
Ramifications of the US blockade on Cuba – international socialism
From its inception in 1962, the embargo against Cuba has remained the most comprehensive US economic sanctions regime against any country in the world.
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Issue #1978
Maduro warns of plot to destroy dialogue from Colombia and US
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, denounced the attempts by Colombia and the United States to boycott the dialogue process between the government and the opposition.
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Issue #1962
Have we become the 51st state?
How can Australia’s subservience to the United States be explained?
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Issue #1979
Afghanistan: what’s next?
Little was said about the horrendous consequences of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and the tens of thousands of Afghan lives that were lost, and the wreckage and chaos that was left behind following the hasty withdrawal by US and allied troops.
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Issue #2001
WASHINGTON BULLETS by Vijay Prashad
The present war between Russia and Ukraine reveals the heavy hand of US imperialist intervention behind the scenes, making this a timely and important book....
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Issue #1968
US seizes Iranian news websites
The United States has committed yet another act of piracy, this time digital.
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Issue #2005
Extradition “death sentence” for Assange
The UK court has given its stamp of approval for WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange to be delivered into the hands of the United States’ justice...
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Issue #1984
Letter
Dear Editor, I was disappointed to read Matthew Hole’s article, “Afghans Reclaim Sovereignty as US-NATO Occupation Comes to an End” (Guardian #1977), ironically with a...
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Issue #1958
Chauvin murder trial
The defence rested this week in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer ...
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Issue #1959
Australia scraps BRI agreements, eager to injure relationship with number one trade partner
The Morrison government has vetoed the state of Victoria by cancelling four agreements it had with other nations relating to cooperation and education.
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Issue #1993
Distractions
Under the cloak of the global pandemic, the US military-industrial complex is gleefully organising another war to rescue capitalism. The propaganda machine has certainly made...
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Issue #1964
Bridges of love global campaign
On Sunday the 30th of May, activists in Perth joined the global campaign Bridges of Love.
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Issue #2003
The end of US dollar hegemony
What is the potential impact on Australia and its workers of the end of US dollar hegemony? This is not an idle question, but a...
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Issue #1976
Djibouti Africa – its international significance
Djibouti is a country of modest size but geopolitically significant, especially when its proximity to Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda, is considered.
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Issue #1977
Afghans reclaim sovereignty as US-Nato occupation comes to an end
Celebratory gunfire echoed across Kabul on Tuesday morning, 31st August, as the last US flight took off from Kabul airport, ending twenty years of American occupation in the country.
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Issue #1990
Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine deal exposes civilian-military links
Andy Stirling and Phil Johnstone, writing for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, highlighted several salient points in their paper, telling us a lot about the thinking of those pushing nuclear energy.
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Issue #1994
US and NATO tighten military ring around Russia
What sin earned Kay-Achim Schönbach such a fate as being fired? When asked about the month-long NATO-Washington campaign against Putin and Russia, based only on...
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Issue #1947
Trump’s Presidency in the light of Democrat neoliberalism
Joe Biden has now replaced Donald Trump as President of the United States.
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Issue #2004
Ironic for Morrison to draw red line without respecting others’
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison just drew a “red line” for China. Australian media widely reported on Sunday that Morrison claimed China building a military...
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Issue #1995
Neo-nazis active in Ukraine as White House adds 3,000 troops
There’s an increasingly surreal air regarding the war scare over Ukraine. The original roles in the drama seem to be reversed. Back in December, Ukrainian...
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Issue #1957
Angela Davis talk “censored” in last minute cancellation
A Jewish group in the United States boycotted the author and academic’s event at Indiana’s Butler University.
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Issue #1960
Afghanistan, will the US lose the war as well as the peace?
It’s little wonder that Joe Biden wants to get his troops out of Afghanistan.
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Issue #1979
Coalition presses the UK to remove climate targets from trade deal
Scott Morrison has confirmed that the Coalition government pressed the UK to remove climate targets from the post-Brexit Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement
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Issue #1971
Horn of Africa
It is almost impossible to find out any news of what is happening in Africa.
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Issue #1985
CPA, CPB & CPUSA Trilateral Statement on AUKUS
The Communist Party of Australia, the Communist Party of Britain and the Communist Party of the USA met on 1st October to discuss the implications...
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Issue #1965
US meddling comes under many disguises
Despite all the catastrophising Western reporting on the passage of the Hong Kong national security law almost a year ago, there has been mostly silence...
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Issue #1980
Australia’s own goal
US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Australia’s PM Scott Morrison lined up like three stooges in a stage-managed virtual presentation to announce the formation of yet another military alliance
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Issue #1950
Slander and threats against the communist party of Venezuela are unacceptable
The parties signing this Joint Statement have been firmly standing at the side of the people of Venezuela and have repeatedly denounced and condemned the imperialist aggression of the United States, the European Union, and their allies in Latin America against Venezuela and the coup attempt to overthrow the elected President Nicolás Maduro. For us, denouncing and opposing the imperialist attacks against the people of Venezuela and the peoples of the world are non-negotiable.
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Issue #1955
Hostilities continue against DPRK
In mid-March, Reuters – followed immediately by CNN and other western media outlets – ran a story stating that “a senior Biden administration official” told them that “North Korea has not responded to behind-the-scenes diplomatic outreach since mid-February by President Joe Biden’s administration.”
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Issue #1981
Petition: no nuclear submarines
AUKUS and a submarine fleet shows a complete disregard for the democratic process and undermines sovereignty.
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Issue #1983
Taiwan is a tinderbox, and the West is attempting to light the fuse
Taiwan island, internationally recognised as a province of China, has again become a key focal point in Washington’s ongoing hybrid war against Beijing.
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Issue #1985
JOBS NOT WAR!
The AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the US turns the meaning of security on its head.
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Issue #1957
Gov’t spends billions on military, but people get none!
It seems in every facet Australia is inching closer towards transforming into its transpacific cousin, the United States of America.
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Issue #1959
Climate Summit: “THE WORLD IS ON RED ALERT”
The growing recognition of the urgency by world leaders was reflected at the virtual climate summit called by US President Joe Biden from 22nd to 23rd April.
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Issue #1980
Subs, subservience and stupidity
It’s been less than a month since the US tore out of poverty-stricken Afghanistan after losing a twenty-year dirty war, with Australia dragging behind, and already they have announced a new absurd military scheme, AUKUS
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Issue #1981
No nuclear Australia: TIME FOR ACTION!
The sudden announcement of the AUKUS (Australia-UK-US) military agreement which will bring nuclear-powered submarines to Australia has provoked worldwide and growing opposition.
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