Issues & Events

Jobs bloodbath in the global auto industry

Mar 19, 2019 18:49

Volkswagen Group, the world’s second largest automaker, is eliminating up to 7,000 jobs as part of a brutal cost-cutting drive to boost profit margins and appease investors who have driven down the German automaker’s stock price 54 percent over the last half-year.
'Politics of demonization': Mainstreamed Islamophobia decried in wake of Christchurch terror attack

Mar 19, 2019 05:28

Massacre in New Zealand should be "moment of reckoning for leaders across the world who have encouraged or turned a blind eye to the scourge" of hateful ideology, says Eoin Higgins, in his article for Common Dreams, titled: “'Politics of demonization': Mainstreamed Islamophobia decried in wake of Christchurch terror attack”.
MKO’s daydream & change of system in Iran running out of road

Mar 18, 2019 13:13

MKO’s Daydream & Change of System in Iran Running Out Of Road The US and the terrorist outfits it is backing in a vain bid to undermine the Islamic Republic on the presumption of changing the system of government in Iran, have run into a dead end.
The Youth Climate Strike and the fight against global warming

Mar 18, 2019 13:10

Hundreds of thousands of students and young people took part in a worldwide Youth Climate Strike to protest the inaction of governments on the issue of climate change. That the international demonstration has evoked a broad response is an indication of both the serious nature of the ecological crisis and the radicalization of youth all over the world.
Pompeo enlists US energy conglomerates for global oil war

Mar 18, 2019 13:09

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a strange speech to a conference attended by representatives of the major US energy conglomerates in which he appealed to “Big Oil” to play an increasingly direct role in the drive by US imperialism for global dominance and the preparation for war on every continent.
The longer history of the Christchurch attacks

Mar 18, 2019 06:19

For over a century, the United States has played a role in inspiring and enabling white supremacy in Australia and New Zealand, says Associate Professor David C. Atkinson of Purdue University in his article titled: “The Longer History of the Christchurch Attacks”, for the New Republic.
NY Times admits US-backed Venezuela opposition caused aid fire

Mar 18, 2019 06:13

Initial Reports by Alternative Press that the torching of the relief shipped to Venezuela was by elements on the payroll of Washington and not by the government as alleged by the Americans.
Rubio’s gloating betrays US sabotage in Venezuela power blitz

Mar 17, 2019 14:31

US imperialists are so desperate in their regime-change predations over Venezuela, they seem to have a problem controlling their drooling mouths.
Why US attempt to flood oil market to hurt Iran will backfire

Mar 17, 2019 14:29

The US is playing a “crude game” in a vain bid to damage the economy of the Islamic Republic, unware of the severe backlash to its own.
Britain’s unreported bombing of Iraq and Syria

Mar 17, 2019 14:27

The regime in Britain, which is a mere shadow of its bygone colonial days, plays the role of vulture today, and wherever the US creates wars and bloodshed, it stoops to feed on the carcass by cowardly attacking the beleaguered victims of terrorism.