A new U.S. Geological Survey study reveals an “alarming” finding that “amphibian declines may be more widespread and severe than previously realized.” In their study, Trends in Amphibian Occupancy in the United States in the journal PLOS ONE, the team of scientists looked at 34 sites and 48 species to see how fast clusters...
Two men yesterday engaged in a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using what appeared to be a meat cleaver to hack to death a British soldier. In the wake of claims that the assailants shouted “Allahu Akbar” during...
We are faced with tremendous odds, the end of the era of cheap energy, the loss of ecosystems to sustain unfettered economic growth and, of course, the global climate crisis. We must understand that these are all symptoms of a much larger problem...
Sanneh concedes that the “rehabilitation of the anarchist movement in America has a lot to do with the fall of the Soviet Union, which lives in popular memory...
The quasi-socialist government of Evo Morales in Bolivia is facing a popular challenge from below. Since May 6, tens of thousands of striking miners, teachers and health workers...
A report released today by the US Geological Survey (USGS) today shows that Americans are sucking dry the aquifers that irrigate their crops and supply their drinking water. Between...
Venezuela’s new Labour Law for Workers came into effect on May 7, guaranteeing shorter working hours, longer maternity leave and pensions for all Venezuelans. Described by the Venezuelan government...
PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / May 19, 2013) Dozens of communist rebels disguised as government troops raided Sunday morning a village in the town of Bayog in...
Primarily among the Left that is centered on “activism” that only manifests itself on the internet, Deep Green Resistance, a group dedicated to resisting corporate greed’s effects on the planet, an...
CPI-Maoists through posters have warned criminal groups and splinter outfits not to lift levy claiming to be Naxals in Ramgarh district. The poster read, “Criminals are warned not to...
Naxals have launched major initiatives to achieve their mission of having a pan India presence, intelligence sources said here on Friday. The initiatives included preparation of an email data...
by Mark Weisbrot The International Crisis Group (ICG) sells itself as “working to prevent conflict worldwide” but there is one country where their mission looks more like promoting rather...
In the face of China’s rapid economic expansion and growing presence on the global stage, it is often forgotten that the country is running out of water. In...
Exploiting oil and gas trapped in tar sands and shale threatens to make climate change “unsolvable,” said James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who raised concerns about global warming...
Be that as it may, in its war against Syria, imperialism has reached a point where it faces this dilemma: without direct military intervention, it has no hope...
Like most revolutionaries, President Museveni’s ideas inclined to a socialistic tendency. His thinking at the time he took over power was one of a leader who had the nation...
We are frequently asked by First Worldists why capitalists would hire workers who ‘are not exploited.’ Because the employment of high-wage workers in imperialist countries generates a profit for...
by Ajamu Baraka “If Efrain Rios Montt, and by extension the Guatemalan military, are guilty of the crime of genocide, the U.S. government and its officials are just as...
It is exactly 85 years ago that Ernesto Guevara, better known as Che Guevara or simply as el Che, was born, on 14 May 1928, in the Argentinian city...
The Peruvian Government is yet again failing to protect the rights of its Indigenous citizens, and if history is anything to go by it is no wonder that the...
Between World War II and the fall of Communism, many fled Soviet-controlled East Germany and headed westward. The stories of these dissidents, defectors, and hardworking citizens who were simply...
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro accused billionaire Lorenzo Mendoza, the owner of the nation’s largest privately-held company, of exacerbating the worst shortages in at least four years and fueling inflation....
The Murrawarri say they never ceded their sovereignty or ultimate title over their ancient homeland and never gave permission for the colonisers to enter their land. The Murrawarri...
On cloudy days, heavy smoke fills the air of Ponca City, Okla., with grey smog that camouflages itself into the sky. The ConocoPhillips oil refinery that makes its...
Well-known documentary film-maker Sanjay Kak has always explored subjects that have tried to pose an alternative to the national discourse. His critically acclaimed documentaries are ‘Words on Water’ on...
An instrument near the summit of Mauna Loa in Hawaii has recorded a long-awaited climate milestone: the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere there has exceeded 400 parts per...
Despite new findings that prove a heightened crisis in US bee populations and a recent ban in Europe on similar chemical applications, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided...
Mark Bergfeld (MB): Marx used the philosophic theme of alienation throughout the 1840s. His later works such as Capital (1867) tend to focus on political economy and social...
“The Patriot Act made giving ‘material support to terror’ a federal offense.” The announcement that the FBI added Assat Shakur to the list of most wanted terrorists was...
Brazil has announced its intention to hire up to 6,000 Cuban doctors to make up for a shortages of medics in the South American nation’s vast countryside. The plan,...
By Mongabay On Thursday roughly 200 indigenous people launched an occupation of a key construction site for the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon. The protestors, who...
My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the...
Paris – Venezuela’s newly elected President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday warned Europe of the risks of “political explosions”, as a result of growing economic tensions. In an interview...
National security officials worried by rapid loss of Arctic summer sea ice overlook threat of permanent global food shortages Senior US government officials are to be briefed at the...
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford “The Americans turned to mass starvation as a weapon of war.” A new study shows that twice as many...
WE OFTEN hear North Korea is a deprived nation, ‘the most repressed society on Earth’. But what if that’s just baloney? Our stereotype of North Korea is totally inaccurate,...
The Present World Situation Onkwehón:we, Afrikans, Filipinos, Mexicans, Palestinians and other colonized and exploited peoples have been waging a struggle against imperialism, all forms of colonialism and the parasitic...
1st of may 2013: Maoism is the spring of our epoch ! On this first of may 2013, from Afghanistan, Belgium and France, full of revolutionary optimism, we hail...
Speech in Celebration of the 40th Founding Anniversary of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines Amsterdam, Netherlands By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Founding Chairman, Communist Party of...
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote a century and a half ago. Climate change is a modern problem. So why do we say that Marxism is essential to the...
Eco-socialism is not merely a catch-phrase. Rather, it is the notion that any modern socialism must alter the structural productive relations both between classes of people and between people...
Desperate to overcome its crisis of overproduction and to maintain the rate of profit of its biggest corporate monopolies, US imperialism is more and more relying on constant and...
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Albert Einstein: Why Socialism?
