Third World children starve, suffer stunted growth, First World children suffer obesity November 15, 2009

Third World children starve, suffer stunted growth, First World children suffer obesity
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According to a new UNICEF report, 200 million children under 5 in poor countries have stunted growth due to insufficient nutrition. Of the 200 million, almost 90 percent live in Asia and Africa. Almost a third of deaths in that age group are linked [...]

Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo November 5, 2009

Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo
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Ang “Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo” ay isang bidyu-dokumentaryo na gawa nuong 1996 at hango sa librong, “Lipunan at Rebolusyong Pilipino,” ni Amado Guerrero. Inilalarawan nito ang kasaysayan ng pakikibaka ng sambayanang Pilipino magmula nuong kapanahunan ng kolonyalismong Espanyol hanggang sa panahon ng imperyalismo sa pagbungad ng [...]

Sa pagkamatay ni Corazon Aquino. November 2, 2009

Sa pagkamatay ni Corazon Aquino.
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Namatay si Corazon Aquino nuong nakaraang lingo. Pinaguusapan ng buong bayan ang pagkamatay ng isang dating papet. Ang midya ay muli na namang nagsimula ng kampanya para purihin siya. Ginagampanan ng midya ang sariling agenda bilang tagapagsalita ng isang pangkat ng mga reaksyunaryo na ipinapamalita ang tagumpay ng “demokrasya” [...]

Revisionists in China and Amerikkkans want stronger military ties October 29, 2009

Revisionists in China and Amerikkkans want stronger military ties
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Both the US and Chinese long for closer military ties. This feeling was expressed at a recent meeting attended by high ranking administration and military personnel from both countries. Both US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and General Xu Caihou were present. This was the highest-level meeting [...]

Comprador Indian State Gears Up for Massive War on its Own People October 29, 2009

Comprador Indian State Gears Up for Massive War on its Own People
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For some months now the comprador Indian state, already up to its neck in extreme and bloody paramilitary and pig repression – police as well as government-backed Salwa Judum death squads have been running amok in rural areas – has been about to engage [...]

We told you so: crypto-Trotskyism in Nepal, and elsewhere October 21, 2009

We told you so: crypto-Trotskyism in Nepal, and elsewhere
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For years, our movement has been exposing the Trotskyism within the onetime Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) organizations. And, before us, the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) had thoroughly exposed the RCP USA, affiliated with the RIM, as crypto-Trotskyist. However, these criticisms were often met with blank stares from [...]

Ganapathi on Jihadists, revisionists in Nepal, Amerikkkans October 20, 2009

Ganapathi on Jihadists, revisionists in Nepal, Amerikkkans*
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In a recent interview, Ganapathi, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist) elaborates his positions on key issues. Ganapathi correctly describes the revolutionary position on Islamic anti-imperialist movements. It is important to note that Ganapathi’s line is the same as our own and differs from the position of the crypto-Trotskyist [...]

RAIM: Afghan Locals Give U.S. Occupiers Proper Goodbye October 7, 2009

Afghan Locals Give U.S. Occupiers Proper Goodbye
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On Saturday, October 3rd hundreds of insurgents stormed two remote military bases near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan. A proper goodbye– the attack killed eight occupiers from Fort Carson and injured many more as they were preparing to relocate from rural outposts to larger bases in more populated areas [...]

China stood up sixty years ago October 1, 2009

China stood up sixty years ago
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Sixty years ago, Mao announced the founding of People’s Republic of China, “China has stood up.” 500 million people walked down a new path.  Just as today, there are two roads to walk. On the one hand, there is the old, familiar way. The capitalist-imperialist road is one of exploitation, [...]

RAIM: Harvest Season Means Forced Labor for Uzbek Children September 28, 2009

Harvest Season Means Forced Labor for Uzbek Children
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Every September, hundreds of thousands of Uzbek children begin two months of forced labor in the country’s cotton fields. Receiving almost nothing in wages and acting in accordance with state mandate, schools are closed and children become virtual slaves as the harvest season rolls in.
In the fields, children [...]

RAIM: Amerikan E-Waste Poisons Chinese September 6, 2009

Amerikan E-Waste Poisons Chinese
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E-waste increasingly flows from the U.S. to the Third World. E-waste is made up of computers, cell phones, and other electronics that have been thrown away. For example, Amerikans throw out 133,000 computers a day and 100 million cell phones a year. Electronics contain harmful, toxic materials such as lead, cadmium, mercury, [...]

India, Nepal face climate change, crop failures August 31, 2009

India, Nepal face climate change, crop failures
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Debt and starvation are parts of daily life for the vast majority of humanity. This year, the peasants of India and Nepal are faced with a crisis. In the state of India of Andhra Pradesh alone, most of the population of 70 million are peasants who depend on agriculture [...]

RAIM: Obama: more troops, more imperialism, more of the same August 27, 2009

Obama: more troops, more imperialism, more of the same
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The election of Barack Obama as president was promised as bringing a different direction to U.S. foreign policy.  But as recent news shows, Obama will continue U.S. imperialist policies, for one by increasing the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.  In the beginning of his term this [...]

1,013 Afghan Civilians Killed in First Half of 2009 August 25, 2009

1,013 Afghan Civilians Killed in First Half of 2009
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A U.N. mission has reported that 1,013 civilians have been killed in combat in Afghanistan during the first half of the year, up 24% from the same period in 2008. Civilian deaths have not been restricted to Afghanistan. On January 23rd, less than three days after his [...]

Gandhi, Non-Violence and the Liberation of the Proletariat from Imperialism August 9, 2009

Gandhi, Non-Violence and the Liberation of the Proletariat from Imperialism
 
By End Imperialism and Serve The People
 
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Norman Finkelstein is a person whom Monkey Smashes Heaven has a lot of respect for. Finkelstein has courageously and consistently combined impeccable scholarship with committed pro-Palestine activism. We have previously been pleased to see him support the right of armed [...]