Editors' Blog
Reflections on China's South Sea Trouble by Thomas Riggins
Lying in the South China Sea between Indochina and the Philippines is a collection of 700 or so small islands, reefs, atolls, shoals, and rocks which are all very scattered about and collectively known as the Spratly Islands (named after the British sea captain Richard Spratly, 1802-1870, who "discovered" them in the early 19th century).
Robert Parry on the Obama Administration and the Civil War in Ukraine by Norman Markowitz
By Robert Parry, Consortium News
Robert Parry on the Obama Administration and the Civil War in Ukraine by Norman Markowitz
In Ukraine today, the Obama administration is pursuing a dangerous neo cold war polic
Robert Parry on the Obama Administration and the Civil War in Ukraine by Norman Markowitz
In Ukraine today, the Obama administration is pursuing a dangerous neo cold war policy, overtly supporting a national chauvinist government that seized power in a coup and has used open neo Nazi groups as shock troops in its war against largely ethnic Russian forces in the Eastern Ukraine, drawn from...
An Upcoming Event in Memory of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg by Norman Markowitz
Below i have cut and pasted an an announcement on the 62nd annual memorial of Julius and Ethel RosenTberg, who were executed in the most infamous political show trial in U.S. history. School children asre still "taught" that they were "atomic bomb" spies. That there was no "secret" of the atom bomb, that completely false evidence was manufactured by the Justice Department and FBI against Ethel, that their attempted appeals were sabotaged by both the Judge and the Attorney General, is known only to serious students of the case. The clear anti-semitic subtext to case also remains largely hidden to most.
A valuable presentation from This weekend's Left Forum by Norman Markowitz
Below I have posted the video from You Tube of the fine panel on "Vito Marcantonio." one of the great figures in the U.S Congress in the 20th Century. Marcantonio deserves to be both remembered and revered by all of us who stand for the America he represented of Peace...
Some Events of Interest at This Week's Left Forum by Norman Markowitz
The Left Forum will be meeting this weekend at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice. I will be participating in the first panel directly. The panels are the work of U.S-China Friendship, which seeks to understand and build positive relationships between the United States and the Peoples Republic of...
A Really Patriotic Memorial Day Presentation by Norman Markowitz
There are memorial day ceremonies today through the country and TV, especially Cable TV is filled with war films of WWII, cold war films of the Korean and Vietnam Wars, documentaries, etc. I thought that these two clips and one full film below would reflect the real spirit of patriotism, love of country and people and democratic principles. The first is a clip from the classic U.S, WWII film, Action in the North Atlantic, starring Humphrey Bogart. The film, written by John Howard Lawson, a founder of the screen writers guild and the most prominent CPUSA activist in Hollywood, told the story of a cargo ship and its men, union men, members of the then Communist led NMU, Their first ship is sunk but they back and make through to the their Soviet allies. This was a different brand of patriotism, a celebrating a democratic working class Amerca.
Another Memorial Day by Norman Markowitz
As we celebrate memorial day,v I thought it would be of value for our readers to remember another memorial day in another war, the class war between labor and capital. This memorial day, unfortunately was part of the massive counterattack by capital on militant labor, which from 1933 to 1945...
