Rooting for Pakistan in a cricket match? Off to jail, says BJP in Kashmir
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. Police in Kashmir have filed charges against two medical students under an anti-terrorism law. Their crime? Cheering for Pakistan in their cricket match against India a couple […]
Xi Aims for ‘Common Prosperity;’ Why Can’t the U.S. Have That?!
Mainstream Western media is heavily covering China’s changes to housing, education, and financial regulation policies with much chagrin. For a capitalist system with profit as the goal, restricting for-profit education and housing speculation is a negative. In China, reducing inequality and bringing “common prosperity” are now the official goals. Tings Chak, researcher at the Tricontinental […]
The Snowballing Scandal At The Fed: Insider Trading, and With No Consequences
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. The Federal Reserve Board is embroiled in a growing scandal over what certainly looks like insider trading by its top officials as well as the cozy relationship […]
Venezuelan Diplomat: Washington is Trying to Starve Us
The United States has escalated its aggression toward Venezuela with its recent extradition of businessman Alex Saab, who was helping source needed food and materials abroad for the CLAP program, which is a food distribution program for Venezuelans. Venezuela’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America & President of Simon Bolivar Institute Carlos Ron […]
Despite the Odds: Cuba’s Vaccines Effective & Set for 93% Rate by Nov 2021
While an intense financial blockade attempts to strangle Cuba, the island nation has still performed vaccine research for over three decades — and has produced seven COVID-19 vaccines in the last year. Cuba has few resources but has tested and approved three Covid vaccines for use on people two years old and older, and is […]
Radical History of US Labor Struggle
This #Striketober wave of strikes and active labor power is impressive and strong — and emanates from a long history of resistance to U.S. stolen labor. Dr. Francis Ryan, labor historian & assistant teaching professor in the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, puts Striketober into the full context of European colonization and enslavement, […]
#STRIKETOBER: Exploited IATSE Hollywood TV Crews & BCTGM Kellogg’s Cereal Workers Fight Back
Striketober is happening right now, with workers at John Deere tractors, Warrior Met Coal, Mercy Hospital, Hollywood film studios, Kellogg’s cereal, and more all preparing for or on strike! Workers from Kellogg’s and the film and TV industry explain what’s going on. Hear from Kevin Bradshaw, a striking 20-year Kellogg’s case sealer operator in Memphis […]
Are the days numbered for Africa’s last absolute monarch?
Photo: Nkosinathi Masuku / New Frame The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. Large protests have again rocked Swaziland, now demanding jobs and free education for all, as a continuation of the mass movement […]