Tag: United States

The news that the Waihopai spy base was going to be built led to the birth of the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC) in 1987. ABC has campaigned for the closure of Waihopai ever since (our most recent protest there was in 2023). We have consistently said that it is a U.S....
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Biden administration wants to look tough in an election year Late on August 3, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin threw out a plea deal, without comment, that would have seen three of the most notorious September 11 terror suspects at Guantánamo imprisoned without parole for the rest of their...
Harris’ VP choice embellished his military record, and voted to fund war after war even when claiming to be against some of them Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz as her running mate has garnered rave reviews in various liberal media outlets. However, during his 12 years in Congress, Walz voted...
The Democratic National Convention is taking place in Chicago this week. Amidst the fanfare and extravagance, there’s very little actual democracy inside as big-name politicians and those trying to make a name for themselves attempt to make the case for Kamala Harris to be the next president...
Laura Martinez was living an idyllic life in an upscale San Antonio suburb with her common-law husband Charlie Thrash, 78, when, on March 6, 2019, Charlie was taken by police from their home and placed in an assisted living facility. Charlie was declared to be incapacitated and placed under guardianship...
As Israel continued its relentless genocide on steroids of Palestinians in Gaza with hundreds killed in past weeks, imprisonment without charges of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and destruction of the hospitals, universities, schools (8 UNRWA schools bombed in the past 10 days), cultural centers and indiscriminate...
When will people on the left get smart and build the wherewithal to prevent this from happening yet again? William A. A. Carsey was a covert operative working for the Democratic Party in the late 19th century, who infiltrated labor organizations and other independent political groups with the goal of...
On June 4, 2024, the 174th Attack Wing of the United States Air Force held a Clergy Day for about 100 clergy members at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York. The event started at 9:00 a.m. and ended at 1:00 p.m., with a free lunch provided.  The clergy...
The Biden administration has ratcheted up weapons supplies to India’s quasi-fascist government as part of a dangerous anti-China policy In early February, the U.S. State Department approved nearly $4 billion in drone sales to India, adding to the $20 billion worth of U.S.-origin defense material the U.S. had sold...
Venezuela’s elections took place on July 28th. Nicolás Maudro defeated the right-wing candidate Edmundo González Urrutia by over a million votes. The imperialist machine immediately jumped into action to denounce the elections, condemning Maduro as a dictator and calling the results undemocratic...