Issues & Events
  • 2,000 workers to lose jobs as Philadelphia refinery shuts down

    2,000 workers to lose jobs as Philadelphia refinery shuts down

    Jul 08, 2019 07:16

    The Philadelphia refinery complex that exploded and caught fire June 21 is being closed down with over 2,000 workers losing their jobs. Many were told last week to collect their belongings and go home. Samuel Davidson, activist and social commentator, has a report on the workers’ condition in the US’ Philadelphia.

  • Time to cut Britain to its diminutive size

    Time to cut Britain to its diminutive size

    Jul 08, 2019 07:09

    British lawlessness is growing everywhere as the regime in London, still thinking of itself as a worldwide empire, which it is definitely not, has started to bare its fangs against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and this time by hijacking an Iranian oil Tanker by violating in the Strait of Gibraltar the territorial waters of Spain, which has protested to Britain for its continued occupation of Gibraltar.

  • Trump throws a wrench into US toy industry

    Trump throws a wrench into US toy industry

    Jul 08, 2019 05:50

    US toy-makers anxious that the industry will take a big tariff hit as 85% of toys comes from China, says DM Chan in his article, titled: “Trump throws a wrench into US toy industry”.

  • Geopolitical impact of the stillborn 'deal of the century' (1)

    Geopolitical impact of the stillborn 'deal of the century' (1)

    Jul 08, 2019 05:10

    The treaties and plots that the US schemes and imposes on the Palestinian nation to make them capitulate to the dictates of the usurper Zionist regime have so far failed, because of the vigilance and resistance of the Palestinian nation.

  • Trump’s Fourth of July: The militarist bombast of a crisis-ridden system

    Trump’s Fourth of July: The militarist bombast of a crisis-ridden system

    Jul 08, 2019 04:24

    US President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July speech on Thursday was intended to be a demonstration of military power and greatness, of the enduring and unconquerable domination of American capitalism.

  • Paris police use pepper spray against seated climate change protesters

    Paris police use pepper spray against seated climate change protesters

    Jul 07, 2019 04:20

    In the latest act of police violence in France, dozens of riot officers surrounded a group of peaceful climate change protesters sitting on and blocking a road in Paris on Friday, dousing them in pepper spray and assaulting them.

  • Trump is the perverse personification of American exceptionalism

    Trump is the perverse personification of American exceptionalism

    Jul 07, 2019 04:11

    With an unprecedented hubris, the United States of America thinks that it is the exceptional country in the world and that it is the absolute role model for mankind and thus should be obeyed and followed in every aspect of human life.

  • Backing the bad guys: US helping to sabotage new Arab uprising

    Backing the bad guys: US helping to sabotage new Arab uprising

    Jul 06, 2019 12:29

    In the wake of the public uprisings in certain Arab countries, Washington instead of respecting people’s will for change of government, has decided to back the new military rulers who have taken power.

  • The un-submersible US-Iran stalemate

    The un-submersible US-Iran stalemate

    Jul 06, 2019 12:14

    Lost in the Russian submarine uproar in the Barents Sea separating the Asia from America, the deadline set by the Islamic Republic for the Big Three European powers, that is, Germany, France, and Britain, to support Iranian crude sales, within framework of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action) as had been agreed in Geneva in 2015.