Month: September 2021
Ukraine on the verge of the fourth wave of the pandemic
Last week, Ukraine’s daily coronavirus-related deaths topped 100 for the first time since June, according to the country’s health ministry. New infections likewise increased to over 6,000 for the first time since May 15 as the virus resurges in the impoverished Eastern European country of approximately 41 million. …
The Fred Hampton Leftists & the Black Radical Tradition, Big Oil sues for the right to kill us all, and the Battle of Blair Mounta
This week, Lee Camp interviews Nick Cruse of the Fred Hampton Leftists show on YouTube, which gives a voice to the US’ black radicals. They’re continuing the long tradition of black revolutionary thought pioneered by Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, and the Black Panthers. The Leftists discuss the landscape of the US under late-stage capitalism, the distractions the mainstream media and corporate-controlled politicians …
CrossTalk: Hegemony challenged
When it comes to the ‘rise of China’, most of the commentary focuses on such things as strategic balance and the West’s so-called “rules-based order.” However, what’s missing in this discussion is the rise of a civilization that challenges Western hegemony. Is the West prepared for this arc of history? …
Reasons behind US-backed military coup in Guinea? Minerals and China
Ben Norton discusses how the US military trained elite forces that carried out a coup in Guinea, a West African country with many natural resources, including the planet’s largest reserves of bauxite, the main source of aluminum. Western government-funded think tanks boasted that the Guinean coup is a blow to China and its Belt and Road Initiative. Washington’s new cold war has Africa in its crosshairs. …
