Abby Martin: ‘Coups and Regime Change Wars Define U.S.’s Naked Imperialism’
Abby Martin speaks at the 2022 People’s Summit for Democracy on the United States’ history of imperialism in Latin America, exploring how the Empire continues to impose its economic interests through unilateral sanctions, coercive debts, privatization, and economic warfare, all of which have resulted in mass suffering and death in the region.
Diaz-Canel, Maduro and Evo Send Messages to People’s Summit, Defying Biden’s Exclusions
Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba, Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela, and Evo Morales, Former President of Bolivia send messages of solidarity to the people of the United States and the organizers of People’s Summit, an alternative to exclusionary Biden’s Summit of Americas.
Phillip Agnew: ‘Mass Murders Going On Every Day By People in Suits’
In this wide-ranging interview, Eugene Puryear talks with phillip agnew of Black Men Build about the role of culture in organizing, Kanye and the right wing recruiting Black men toward the right, mass murder, gun rights, and more, at the People’s Summit for Democracy, June 8-10, 2022.
U.S. Hypocrisy on Press Freedom Is “Absolutely Striking” Says Assange’s Brother
In the wake of accelerated attempts by the UK government to extradite WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange, Eugene Puryear talks with Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s brother, at the People’s Summit for Democracy on June 10, 2022. They discuss the torture Assange is going through in prison, the hypocrisy of the United States making statements on press freedom, […]
Official US Policy: We Can ‘Win’ a Nuclear War
Three decades after the end of the so-called Cold War the threat of all-out nuclear conflict – and therefore the annihilation of life on Earth as we know it – is a real and growing danger. But this time, the threat to human civilization is compounded by the crisis of climate change. We need a […]
The Rising Tide of Resistance to Women’s Rights Rollback
In the United States women’s rights are under assault with a looming Supreme Court decision that could ban abortion in all 50 states. The prospect of a significant roll-back of rights has already sparked a strong response. Karina Garcia, organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, with ten years experience organizing immigrant communities around […]
Doves Die in Ukraine: When Did Liberals Turn On Peace? With Eugene Puryear
As the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia rages, the imperialist establishment is increasingly united behind a strategy of escalation. Brian and Eugene Puryear trace the development of this increasingly hostile approach over the years and decades; and review the most important recent military, economic and political developments in the conflict. Eugene Puryear is […]
Biden Threatens War in Taiwan Strait
President Biden’s recent trip to Asia including a bellicose threat to intervene militarily in internal Chinese affairs. Biden’s comments suggesting the US would go to war with China over Taiwan were eventually walked back by the White House, and “clarified” by the State Department, but the threat of nuclear conflict still hangs in the air. […]