Tag: US
Pentagon Readying Force to Deploy in Streets of Washington, DC to Enforce Martial Law – Reports
Department of Defence officials and civilian authorities have repeatedly played down fears that the US National Guard could be called in to enforce martial law in one or more jurisdictions of the United States in response to the coronavirus pandemic, dismissing claims to the contrary as “false” and akin to “conspiracy theories. …
U.S. Coercion Is No Match for Cuba’s Internationalist Solidarity
After decades of being spoken about historically in terms of the Cuban Revolution and ideological anti-imperialism, the coronavirus pandemic has thrust Cuba onto the international arena and as a formidable opponent to capitalism. While Western countries struggle to cope with increasingly failing healthcare systems …
Brave New World: Coronavirus Authoritarians Building Massive Surveillance State
“Never let a crisis go to waste.” Big tech is getting into bed with big government to build a massive surveillance superstructure that will monitor all of our movements – in the name of fighting coronavirus, of course. As Edward Snowden recently warned, these mechanisms of surveillance and oppression are not going to be dismantled once the virus is gone. …