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1. Letter from the US: Huge women’s marches stare down Trump’s attacks

   attacks on women’s rights. Hundreds of thousands more took to the streets around the world, with protests ... election campaign, as spelt out in the “Guiding Vision” of the Women’s March on Washington (which can be ... identified themselves as “nasty women” — a reference to Trump’s misogynistic attack on his Democratic ...

2. United States: The battle against Trumpism can’t be left to the Democrats

   then capitalists after the Civil War — and their political parties have been founded on and enforce ... personally loyal to him, believe whatever he says, and ready to do what he wants. Trump is now taking on ... a more public role, including projecting mass rallies, his preferred venue. The first one happened on ...

3. Letter from the US: Trump’s foreign policy tactical shifts bring prospect for more war

   after the September 11, 2001 attacks to justify the “War on Terror”. Largely Muslim countries in the ... turned out for International Women’s Day on March 8, part of the International Women’s Strike that took ... Economy Imperialism & war Democracy Barry Sheppard Donald Trump San Francisco The disarray ...

4. Letter from the US: 'We don't work for you no more!' NATO war makers confronted

   summit in Chicago on May 20. Thousands poured through the streets in the largest anti-war demonstration ... once believed about the wars — lies they came to understand on the ground. Many apologised to the Iraqi ... for taking part in the phony “war on terror”, into the street towards the NATO summit meeting. One vet ...

5. United States: Attacks on abortion rights accelerate

   version imposes a mandatory 48-hour waiting period on such women before they can have an abortion. The ... a special hardship on working-class women, who have to take time off work and find transport. Mandatory ... These new laws bear down on working women the hardest. Especially harmful is the effect on the poorest. ...

6. United States: Trump’s Bonaparte moment

   Anti-racism Democracy Elections Far right Imperialism & war Barry Sheppard Black Lives Matter ... United States elections San Francisco August’s Republican National Convention centred on two interrelated ... hold onto power, come what may The other was the mobilisation of a blatant, racist assault on the Black ...

7. United States: Racism, democracy in the ‘land of the free’

   Anti-racism Democracy Elections Far right Healthcare History Imperialism & war North America ... likely be confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate on October 26. Barrett is on the far right among ... the household. Unsurprisingly, she is a vocal opponent to women’s right to abortion and rejects ...

8. United States: Trump's race election polarises the nation

   embassy to Jerusalem, support the Saudi war on its people and Yemen, and its drone attacks in the region. ... passed that threshold on November 7. What has become the norm in 48 states is that all Electoral College ... are allocated differently. The Electoral College will meet on December 14 to rubber-stamp the outcome. ...

9. Trump pushes racist wall, but Democrats push racist cruelty too

   phony “war on drugs” in recent decades. An example was the Barack Obama administration’s orchestrated ... would rely heavily on anti-Mexican racism, racism against all non-whites, anti-immigrant xenophobia and ... included the use of military technology and equipment repurposed from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to ...

10. US: What Trump’s impeachment shows about the Democratic establishment

    on women. The refusal of the Democratic establishment to impeach Trump on his racism alone reflects ... dirt on Joe Biden, who is running to win the Democratic nomination for president. Whenever capitalist ... on the interests of US imperialism, the Democratic establishment has left aside the major crimes ...

11. United States: Pandemic and politics

    retreat. Biden supported former president Bill Clinton’s legislation that intensified the “War on Drugs”, ... Joe Biden San Francisco The COVID-19 pandemic is having a marked impact on the 2020 election campaign ... As the pandemic has taken centre stage and is severely impacting on the economy, Biden has scarcely ...

12. After Mueller: Trump’s presidency a product of US capitalism

    going back more than a century. In recent decades, the US’ “war on drugs” has done nothing to stem ... violence and gang warfare, the “war on drugs” has done the same inside the US and south of the border. What ... and became the chief party of white racism. The “war on drugs” championed by both parties became a war ...

13. California wildfires: Climate change, prison labour and the electric company

    hilly side of the San Francisco Bay Area and the hills on Los Angeles’ west side are prone to fires. ... speeds of 100km per hour, with gusts of 130kmph and even 160kmph on one occasion — hurricane-force winds. ... feature of climate change — Arctic warming — is having an impact on the California fires. The Arctic is ...

14. Ilhan Omar responds to attacks: Rashida and I are here to stay

    women were elected to the United States House of Representatives in the 2018 election. Ilhan Omar is ... Black, and a refugee from war-devastated Somalia. Rahida Tlaib is of Palestinian descent, and has family ... increasingly questioning the US consensus on backing Israel, come what may. This includes Jews dismayed by ...

15. Letter from the US: Misogynist murders prompt resistance

    mass response. He spoke of launching a “war on women”. In his video, he outline his hatred of women ... him, and throwing coffee on women who did not respond the way he wanted them to. Small wonder women ... avoided him. Within two days, about 500,000 women joined together to tell on Twitter, under the hashtag ...

16. Letter from the US: Hillary’s real record far from progressive

    against women workers and aggressive anti-unionism. She was on Walmart’s board of directors from 1986 to ... by the misery caused by the US wars she supports, which have hit women and children ... very hard. Clinton's “feminism” concentrates on the advancement of women in corporate boardrooms ...

17. Trump ratchets up anti-immigrant campaign

    column will take up one of these crimes, Trump’s intensification of his racist war on immigrants. He is ... Union (ACLU) migrants Letter from the US United States While much of the media continues to focus on the ... not alone on this — the ultra-right throughout Europe and elsewhere have similar anti-immigrant ...

18. Letter from the US: Petraeus sex scandal covers more shocking story

    Vietnam to talk to the soldiers on the ground about the war. One soldier, who was fiercely against the ... war, was anguished. He said when he was in firefights, sometimes women and even children would pull out ... weapons and open fire on US soldiers. They shot the women and children. Killing ordinary Iraqis and ...

19. Trump attacks #MeToo as he pushes Supreme Court coup

    women involved, they seek to solidify a far-right majority of five out of nine members on the Supreme ... success or otherwise of the coup hinged on the votes in the full Senate of two “moderate” Republican women ... restrictions on the right of women to choose abortion.  Kavanaugh will not sometimes stray as Kennedy did, ...

20. Democrats' anti-Trump campaign extols undemocratic FBI and the 'national security' state

    All Black and anti-war (and later women’s and gay and lesbian liberation) groups were targeted, on top ... movements, as well as the youth radicalisation centred on the anti-Vietnam-war movement, COINTEL expanded. ... further the struggle against Trump’s real crimes of war, racism, misogyny, homophobia and huge attacks on ...

21. Letter from the US: Why I reject a lesser evil and will vote for Jill Stein

    Obama's continuation of the wars without end under the rubric of the “War on Terror”. Concerning how to ... Imperialism & war Workers & unions Anti-racism Elections Democracy Economy Barry Sheppard ... frequently the Democratic Party. In this year's election, the “lesser evil” is the war hawk and ...

22. Letter from the US: Paris attacks spur great racist hysteria

    war began, the Obama administration has let in only 2200 Syrian refugees, 77% of whom were women and ... Imperialism & war Anti-racism Democracy Barry Sheppard Islamophobia, anti-Muslim racism and ... United States government cynically played on fears resulting from the terrorist attack to greatly ...

23. Letter from the US: Homophobia behind Orlando killings, not 'Islamic terrorism'

    engulfing his base and beyond, while Clinton has focused on the need to step up the US war in the Middle ... Imperialism & war Anti-racism Democracy Economy Barry Sheppard Orlando San Francisco The ... attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that left 50 dead (including the shooter) and more ...

24. How Clinton's foreign policy 'record' is stained with blood

    Imperialism & war Democracy Middle East National liberation Latin America & the Caribbean ... government and its policies. It exerts great pressure on all members of Congress. Clinton probably won that ... Clinton said, “are on the front lines of the battle to oppose the alarming divestment and sanctions ...

25. Erica Garner – fighter for Black rights

    father, the war on drugs, and the occupation of Black and Brown communities… “Erica was very resilient. ... died on December 30 aged 27. The proximate cause of death was a heart attack, extremely rare in one so ... white cops on July 27, 2014, in the Staten Island borough of the city. His “crime” was standing on ...

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