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The Crisis in Ukraine: Major Challenge to the US Antiwar Movement

Jeff Mackler — 2022-03-15T11:48:09Z

With Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine a crisis of historic proportions has emerged front and center in world politics. The warmongering US corporate media headline the Biden Administration's every pronouncement, daily blaring that Putin's Russia is the aggressor, that Russia is bombing civilians, that it is intent on taking over all of Ukraine and that it poses a threat to NATO, if not to all of “democratic” Europe. All the corporate institutions of manufacturing consent are united (…)

- 2022 - Ukraine / United States (USA), Ukraine, War drive/Anti-war movements, Ukraine debate

Julian Assange and the CIA-USA Daily Wars Against Humanity

Jeff Mackler — 2021-10-11T06:43:25Z

“The U.S. war machine rains death and destruction everywhere its economic and political interests are challenged. Its corporate media monopoly operates to burnish or prettify and deflect capitalism's horrors, or to ignore or justify them outright.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / United States (USA)

Trump fanatics invade Capitol as his presidency disintegrates

Jeff Mackler — 2021-01-11T22:32:40Z

“Humanity's future also rests on the emergence and consolidation of a new and independent Black, Latinx and Native American leadership to champion the struggles of the most oppressed and exploited and establish democratic control of their communities while opening the way to the formation of independent Black and Brown parties in the political arena.”

- Debate / United States (USA), Debate section

Coronavirus threatens the lives of billions

James Fortin, Jeff Mackler — 2020-03-25T07:27:11Z

As the devastating novel coronavirus (COVID-19) literally threatens the lives of billions of the earth's people, two truths about the contagion remain unchallenged: All nations are ill-prepared for the arrival of the virus, and once it lands, despite herculean efforts in some cases, little can be done to stop its spread.

- Covid-19 - Statements / United States (USA), Covid-19 Pandemic, Covid-19 - Statements

Dynamics of an Interrupted Revolution

Jeff Mackler — 2018-08-21T05:45:17Z

The unfolding events in Nicaragua over the past three months pose two critical questions for socialists and antiwar activists. Where do we stand on the critical issue of U.S. imperialist intervention and where do we stand with regard to the dynamics of the still-unfolding confrontations?

- IV523 - August 2018 / Nicaragua

Trump's â€˜no fly zone' escalates U.S. war against Syria

Jeff Mackler — 2017-07-29T10:38:39Z

The lie that the U.S. is fighting Islamic State (ISIS) terrorism in Syria was publicly exploded on June 18 when a U.S. F/A-18 “Super Hornet” fighter jet launched from the George H.W. Bushaircraft carrier shot down a Syrian government aircraft. Syria said its plane had carried out a mission against ISIS in the countryside near Raqqaâ€”the capital of ISIS's proclaimed caliphate.

- Problems of the Arab and Middle East regions / United States (USA), Syria, Debate section

Let's seize the opportunities, and build an international for revolution and communism

Manos Skoufoglou, Gaël Quirante, Jeff Mackler, Mathilde Stein — 2017-07-27T10:57:39Z

This text was submitted by IC members Manos (Greece), Jeff M. (SA USA) and supported at the IC by permanent guests: GaÃ«l, Mathilde (NPA and French section). THis is the final version, after the international Conference held in Paris on November 10-12. The text is meant to be put to the vote against the documents proposed by the majority of the IC to the World Congress.

- 17th World Congress discussion

Fidel Castro: Undaunted Revolutionary

Jeff Mackler — 2017-01-04T14:27:40Z

Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuba's revolutionary leader, president, and prime minister for five decades, died in Santiago de Cuba on Friday, Nov. 25. He was 90 years old. Although one of the most profound, clear-sighted, honest, and dedicated revolutionary leaders of the past half-century, Castro has been demonized by the corporate media as a dictator, tyrant, murderer, and torturer.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Cuba

Charlie Hebdo: Imperialism's new 9/11?

Jeff Mackler — 2015-02-16T18:58:58Z

The Jan. 7 Paris bombings and shootings afforded French and allied capitalist heads of stateâ€”some 50 presidents and prime ministers plus top U.S. officials, all complicit with mass murderâ€”the opportunity for an unprecedented show of unity under the call of “I am Charlie Hebdo.” We note the hypocrisy of the perpetrators of war and systematic violence coming together to pose as defenders of “free speech, liberty, fraternity, and democratic rights.” Virtually all have led in suppressing, if not murdering, opposition currents in their own nations and everywhere on earth where their troops engage in the ruthless murder of oppressed people.

- Paris, Brussels, responding to the attacks / United States (USA), France, Religion, Debate section, Anti-racism and Islamophobia, Racism and Islamophobia

The Real Face of US Elections

Jeff Mackler — 2014-12-03T11:54:13Z

Jeff Mackler considers the results of the US mid term elections.

- IV479 - December 2014 / United States (USA)