United States
Martin Hart-Landsberg: China and the jobs issue
"Approximately 90 per cent of China’s high technology exports to the US are produced by multinational corporations and many of them are being bought an
Discovering the radical vision of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
By Billy Wharton
Why does health care in Cuba cost 96% less than in the US?
Claudia Lopez, an intern, with outpatients at 5 de Septiembre Polyclinic, Havana.
What if the state of the world were measured by its majority?
What real democracy looks like: a communal council in Merida votes for its electoral commission in July 2010.
United States: 120th anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee: The bloody birth of empire
December 29, 2010 -- Rustbelt Radical -- Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890 is full of meaning. Not just for the Miniconjou and Hunkpapa Lakota who were victims and perished in their hundreds, but for the course of imperial America. Its violence an echo of the violence that was the settlement of this country.
Wikileaks: Don't forget Bradley Manning -- US detains accused whistleblower in inhumane conditions
Graphic from CourageToResist.org.
December 15, 2010 -- Salon -- Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old US Army private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the US Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture. Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard), who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subject to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.
New York City: Left Forum 2011, March 18-20
towards a politics of solidarity
Message to the US -- Blame the wars, not China
By Paul Kellogg
Wikileaks: A call to struggle against empire
Sign the petition:"Truth is a crime in an empire of lies: Defend Wikileaks".
By Andrea Pason and Billy Wharton
December 4, 2010 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – Running an empire produces many nasty habits, habits that lead you to treat people, nations, assets and the environment as objects upon which to project your own power. The US government runs such an empire. As a result, innocent people die, the environment is ravaged and funds that could have been used to meet human needs have been fed into an insatiable military industrial complex. This has long been known by the socialist left and now, with the release and publication of secret US diplomatic messages, Wikileaks has made it visible to the entire world.
