Month: February 2023

Government financed RAND Corporation suggests U.S. get out of Ukraine war
International News

Some in U.S. Ruling Class Question Ukraine Prospects

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole With the Ukraine-Russian Federation war approaching its one year anniversary, some elements of the United States ruling class are questioning how to make the best of a bad situation. After many months […]
Cotton industry and African enslavement
Domestic News

Antebellum Agriculture and the World Capitalist System

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 2 “It was the Black worker, as founding stone of a new economic system in the nineteenth century and for the modern world, who brought civil […]
Drone attack in Iran caused explosion but, reportedly, little damage
International News

U.S. Behind Israeli Drone Attack on Iran

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole An Iranian military production facility came under attack by three drones on the night of January 28. Although no nation or group claimed “credit,” the Wall Street Journal quoted United States officials […]
African soldiers in the Union Army
Domestic News

African Americans and the United States Civil War

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 1 By 1860, the dominant industry within southern agriculture was cotton production which utilized the unpaid labor of Africans on lands which were stolen from the […]
Dr. Strangelove movie character General Jack D. Ripper starts a nuclear war in the 1964 film
International News

Mad general threatens war with China

February 2, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Echoing the deranged Air Force General Jack Ripper, a character from the 1964 movie “Dr. Strangelove” who orders his command wing to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, on January […]
Mass funeral after the zionist massacre in Jenin Refugee Camp
International News

Al-Awda NY Statement on Zionist Massacre in Jenin Refugee Camp

February 1, 2023 fwstaff
By Al-Awda NY Al-Awda NY calls on all individuals and organizations to stand with the Palestinian liberation struggle and to publicly condemn the massacre committed in Jenin refugee camp on the morning of Thursday, January […]
Sri Lanka people line up for fuel
International News

Sri Lanka Secures IMF Bailout Amid Global Debt Crisis

February 1, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During 2022 the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka was the scene of large-scale protests prompted by an unprecedented economic crisis. For the first time in its post-colonial history, the country […]