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White House, Congress and Pentagon whip up war hysteria against Chinese weather balloon.
International News

Balloon Shootout: Pretext for War with China

February 13, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry A stealth F22 fighter, costing some $350 million, managed to shoot down its first aircraft on February 4, a large Chinese balloon off the South Carolina coast. The People’s Republic of China […]
Natural gas released from Nord Stream pipelines following U.S. covert sabotage
International News

The Wider War – U.S. Exposed for Blowing Up Russia’s Pipelines

February 13, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole Award winning journalist Seymour Hersh has written a detailed expose on how the United States government planned and carried out the bombing of Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines on September 26, 2022. Hersh’s […]
French CGT banners very much in evidence on January 31, 2023
International News

French Unions Stage Third Day of General Strikes Against Pension Reform

February 10, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Emmanuel Macron of France has introduced a bill within the National Assembly which would make significant changes to the pension system established as a result of working class struggles over the […]
African American prison contract labor
Domestic News

Reversing Reconstruction, the Rise of Tenant Agriculture and the Great Migration

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 3 “By an act of April 16, 1862, which abolished slavery in the District of Columbia, Congress made an appropriation of $100,000 for voluntary Negro emigrants […]
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 […]