President Trump’s cancellation of the CIA’s longstanding mission to train, arm and finance a jihadist overthrow of the Syrian government is recognition that “the Obama war has basically failed,” said Ajamu Baraka, spokesperson for the newly organized Black Alliance for Peace and the Green Party’s 2016 vice presidential candidate. Given that the military and intelligence services rebelled against President Obama’s attempts to cooperate with the Russians in Syria, last year, “it remains to be seen to what extent these elements of the ‘deep state’ are going to obey that directive,” said Baraka, who is also an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report.
Workers around the world can play a role in mobilizing action against the apartheid Israeli state.
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“You belong to us, body and belongings, and we can dispose of them and do with you as we please.” Holy Roman Emperor Louis VI in 1343.
When oppressed people get organized, the US gets angry. It's been punishing the people of Cuba since 1962.
We remember Patrice Lumumba. We will not forget the Congo.
