The US-Led War on Yemen Washington is hiding its leadership of the war on Yemen behind the Saudis November 6, 2017 By Stephen Gowans In October, 2016, two Reuters’ reporters published an exclusive, under the headline: “As Saudis bombed Yemen, U.S. worried about legal blowback.” [1] The reporters, Wa...

Seven Myths about the USSR By Stephen Gowans The Soviet Union was dissolved 22 years ago, on December 26, 1991. It’s widely believed outside the former republics of the USSR that Soviet citizens fervently wished for this; that Stalin was hated as a vile despot; that the USSR’s socialist economy nev...

A Masterpiece of Human Intelligence: Quotes from Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" (1867) https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xoM_7PQNuEY/WSqx_OviJqI/AAAAAAAACzA/KOuyItiW01QJbhNpKov5sENxOZTVkr_oACLcB/s1600/Marx%2BDas%2BKapital.jpg On the occasion of the 150 years since the publication of "Das Kapital" (The Capital)-...

As AT&T announces holiday layoff of hundreds of workers Corporate America begins campaign to sell Trump tax bonanza By Patrick Martin 23 December 2017 The enactment of the largest tax cut for the rich in modern history has triggered a series of announcements by major corporations that they are going...

US Congress passes tax windfall for corporations and the rich By Barry Grey 21 December 2017 Congress’ passage of the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion tax cut for corporations and the rich marks a new stage in the decades-long social counterrevolution in the United States. It will make America, ...

The "demonization" of Liberalism during the Reagan years and after - extending even to that term itself - served to further confuse the situation in the U.S. Before that point, there was a rich criticism (in literature, song, poetry, film...) of Liberalism in America, extending from before the Firs...

I accept that you agonize over this material in a serious and sincere way. I also accept that Mr. Pig and The Ghost use this and similar material to "stoke the flames". This last is more a testimony to the skill of chlamor and blindpig, however. They could open a can of tomatoes with an el dente no...

They spend their lives standing on their heads, kiddo. For them, every cause is effect and every effect, cause. Check out a dozen economic histories of the Great Depression and three quarters of them will report on how the Depression was "caused" by the Stock Market Crash or Hoover policies or real...

Borneo: Island Devastated By Andre Vltchek and Mira Lubis Friday, Dec 1, 2017 She was just standing there, in the middle of burning land, surrounded by stumps of trees, fire everywhere, smoke rising towards hopelessly gray sky. The expression on her face was mischievous, almost girlish. I had no ide...

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Review by James Illingworth Issue #74: Reviews Share The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte By Karl Marx 1852 THE REVOLUTIONS of 1848 in Europe are a forgotten episode in radical history, particularly in the United States. While revolutionary turning po...