Steve Sweeney

LATEST ARTICLES BY Steve Sweeney

• Environment

  

  Sustainable farming keeps Cuba’s rivers clean, says joint U.S.-Cuban study

  February 10, 2020 By Steve Sweeney

  Its rivers contained much lower levels of dissolved nitrogen—an indicator of fertilizer use—than the Mississippi River Basin in the U.S.

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• Politics

  

  General strike in Gaza, protests rage against Trump’s ‘deal of the century’

  January 30, 2020 By Steve Sweeney

  Gaza came to a virtual standstill with government and financial institutions closed, while schools and universities suspended classes.

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• World

  

  Iraqi Communists say their country should not be battleground for U.S.-Iran war

  January 10, 2020 By Steve Sweeney

  The Iraqi Communist Party said it stood “firmly against turning our homeland into an arena to settle accounts and implement tit-for-tat revenge operations.”

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• World

  

  “The toiling people are rising”: Up to 250 million strike in India

  January 8, 2020 By Steve Sweeney

  Unions are angered over Narendra Modi's government’s neoliberal program, which includes the privatization of public services and worsening the conditions of workers.

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• World

  

  Iraqi prime minister: Trump used diplomatic cover to lure Soleimani to his death

  January 7, 2020 By Steve Sweeney

  Adil Abdul-Mahdi told the Iraqi parliament Sunday that Soleimani entered the country with a response to a Saudi Arabian proposal to de-escalate tensions in the region.

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• World

  

  Imperialist no more? Corbyn’s foreign policy would transform Britain’s global role

  December 9, 2019 By Steve Sweeney

  Another world is possible—a foreign policy based on solidarity and cooperation as laid out by Labour, or one based on war, profit, and destruction offered by the Tories.

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• World

  

  Iraqi Communists condemn repression, say “moment of real change” has arrived

  November 4, 2019 By Steve Sweeney

  With unemployment, corruption, and violence crushing Iraq's working class, the Communist Party says the current system is "a terrible failure."

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• World

  

  Turkish army and militia forces surround Kurdish towns as invasion advances

  October 11, 2019 By Steve Sweeney

  Turkey's opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) called for the UN and international community to take action to prevent Turkey’s “racist, expansionist” war.

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