A spectre is haunting Vladimir Putin — the spectre of Vladimir Lenin. Upon recognizing the “independence” of Donetsk and Lugansk, the Russian president clarified who is to be blamed for the whole mess

“Why is it that when it comes to people of color, Black and Brown people, we must continue to push and beg to validate our humanity?” Because when you're white, it's all right! https://www.democracyno

According to the official narrative, Israel has to maintain a level of neutrality in this conflict out of consideration for Russia’s Jewish population, which numbers around 180,000 people, and to allo

Europeans may see the backs of Ukrainian Jews running for their lives, but Palestinians see the faces of soldiers and settlers taking over their land. https://www.972mag.com/refugees-settlers-israel-u

Europe's white racist legacy alive and well!https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/28/detained_african_students_russia_ukraine

https://www.juancole.com/2022/03/remember-squatter-settlements-palestine.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/climate/east-antarctica-ice-shelf-collapse.htm Antarctic ice shelf nearly the size of Los Angeles collapsed as temperatures soared to 40 above normal https://www.cnn

+ The tributes to Madeleine Albright, who died this week at 84, are sickening to read. The lede for her obituary should read very simply: Chief architect of a sanction regime that killed 500,000 Iraqi

https://www.juancole.com/2022/03/sanctions-occupation-palestine.html

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 4:06 AM DelanceyPlace.com <daily@...> wrote: View this email in your browser Forward Share Tweet Share +1 Pin Today's selection from When We Cease to Understand t

Forward Share Tweet Share +1 Pin Today's selection -- from Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King. At 27, Sergei Eisenstein developed the iconic silent film, Battleship Potemkin:

Advertisement Madeleine Albright's Legacy Madeleine Albright (1937-2022) Madeleine Albright has died at the age of 84. She was Bill Clinton's Secretary of State from 1997-2001, the first woman to ever

China is not going to rupture its relations with Russia, it’s not going to apply pressure on Russia, it’s not going to blame Russia, it’s not going to call the Russian invasion of Ukraine an invasion,

"Admirable history" - does that include loyally and reflexively supporting all aspects of Stalin's Frame Up Trials of loyal Bolsheviks, thus dragging its reputation through the mud and blood of a few

https://mondoweiss.net/2022/03/palestinians-on-ukraine-double-standard-their-resistance-is-legalized-ours-is-not/

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/21/1087937431/a-third-of-trans-youth-are-at-risk-of-losing-gender-affirming-care-study-says

https://www.juancole.com/2022/03/sanction-without-risking.html

Do comrades recall how Benjamin and others (Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon) who supported the best chance the left has had in decades to create a left alternative to the Democrats - the Ralph Nader Pre

"Anti-Trump" Repugs are just the latest and possibly the most nauseating version of "lesser evilism" short of supporting Mussolini as "anti-Hitler". These are the pro W Bush/Cheney advocates of illega

I have to say that I am offended by the misuse of this website for Stalinist falsifying of history. Louis must be turning in his grave!