Year: 2024

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends the closing ceremony of a reconciliation dialogue among Palestinian factions resulting in the signing of the Beijing Declaration
International News

Palestinian factions sign Beijing agreement but deep obstacles remain

July 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Omar Karmi, The Electronic Intifada On Tuesday, Palestinian factions in Beijing signed yet another unity agreement to overcome 17 years of internal division between the two main Palestinian political factions, Hamas and Fatah. The […]
Vickie Camille speaks at DCPTA press conference
Domestic News

Detroit Press Conference on Continuing Law-Enforcement Misconduct

July 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe St. Peter’s Episcopal Church was the scene of an extended press conference held by the Detroit Coalition for Police Transparency and Accountability (DCPTA) on July 24. The DCPTA was founded in July […]
Detroit speakout with David Sole outside federal bldg
Domestic News

Detroiters Demonstrate Against War Criminal Netanyahu

July 27, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, there was a demonstration and speakout in opposition to the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States. The action took place on […]
France New Popular Front wins largest bloc of votes in July 7 parliamentary elections
International News

Weeks After Elections in France and Still No New Government

July 27, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A broad-based coalition of leftist and centrist parties staved off the potential ascendancy of the neo-fascist Assemblee nationale (National Rally) which made significant gains in the European Parliamentary elections and the first […]
Russian MiG-31BM fighter jet may confront Western supplied F-16s in the skies over Ukraine this summer
International News

Western Powers Sending Ukraine Stolen Money and F-16s

July 27, 2024 fwstaff
By David Sole In a desperate attempt to shore up the faltering Ukrainian military in its proxy war with Russia, the European Union and NATO allies are stealing the interest from Russian assets frozen since […]
US warships off the China coast. China’s socialist economy is seen as a threat to US capitalism so tariffs and war maneuvers are used to threaten the People’s Republic
International News

U.S. economists “expose” China’s economy

July 26, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Bourgeois economists, ever ready to proclaim the impending demise of the socialist economic model in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), find every opportunity to throw shade on China’s economic system. At […]
Julia Wright on the Trump assassination attempt
Domestic News

Bread, circuses…and assassination attempts

July 26, 2024 fwstaff
By Julia Wright Minutes after the murder of George Floyd, Derek Chauvin said to a passer-by that “he was too big, too excited, certainly high on something”. The police officer’s defense was early on that […]
U.S. presidents, including Trump, have a long history of murdering or attempting to murder, foreign leaders
Domestic News

No Tears for Trump!

July 21, 2024 fwstaff
By Stephen Millies The first question that must be asked about the shootings at the July 13 Trump rally is: who does it benefit? It’s obviously Trump himself. All it took was a bloody ear […]
Yvonne Jones chairing the Palestine history forum sponsored by Moratorium NOW! Coalition, July 15, 2024
International News

Palestine Solidarity Reaches Unprecedented Heights

July 18, 2024 fwstaff
Note: These remarks were delivered at a public forum on the history and current situation in Palestine and West Asia. The pamphlet entitled “Zionism: the Myths, the Lies, the Crimes” was recently published by fighting-words.net. […]