If NATO Goes to War, U.S. & European Soldiers Will Be Called On to Kill & Die
The United States is on a different continent from Ukraine and Russia. So why is the U.S.-led military alliance, NATO, pushing so hard against Russia’s borders? Watch Ben Chacko of Morning Star Online break down the conflict.
The Views U.S. Media Won’t Allow: Prominent Russian Professor on Ukraine Crisis
Russia and the United States have been at each other’s throats, and scrambling up the escalation ladder toward war. The U.S. capitalist press and politicians of all stripes have joined in. But has anyone heard the Russian side of the story? Dr. Oleg Barabanov, Academic Director of the European Studies Institute at MGIMO University in […]
Digital Activist Ola Bini, Friend of Assange, Faces Political Prosecution in Ecuador
Digital activist Ola Bini, friend of Julian Assange, is on trial this week in Ecuador in a significant case against press freedom. Zoe Alexandra, journalist and co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, which covers social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, explains what’s going on.
Chicago Teachers Union VP: ‘We Have Turned the Paradigm Upside Down’ in Fight for Safe Schools
After being suddenly locked out of their own virtual classrooms, Chicago teachers and students fought back against Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to send them back into school buildings in overcrowded and unsafe conditions, with little COVID testing and lack of critical PPE. Stacy Davis Gates, Executive Vice President of Chicago Teachers Union, explains their […]
Harvard Epidemiologist: Politicians Let Omicron Surge, Putting Profit Over People
Epidemiologist Dr. Justin Feldman, Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center discusses how the Biden administration’s pandemic response has been consistently guided by the profit motive rather than common sense public health measures.
Biden’s Year of Failure is a Failure of the Capitalist System, with Prof. Jodi Dean
One year of Joe Biden’s presidency has gone by – but what has actually changed? The climate is still a huge crisis, we still don’t have sufficient public health response to the pandemic, billionaires are still getting richer while more and more people sink into poverty. What’s the alternative? Dr. Jodi Dean, Professor of Political […]
Who Speaks for Ethiopia? Voices from the Opposition
As we traveled through Ethiopia, BT News met with Minister of Education Dr. Berhanu Nega, of the Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice party and a former political prisoner of the TPLF and Minister of Culture and Sport Kejela Merdasa of the Oromo Liberation Front, to get their views on Ethiopia’s current political moment, the nation’s […]
The War on Ethiopia Dispatch 1: U.S. Crushes Ethiopian Workers
Millions of Ethiopian workers are facing threats to their livelihoods because the United States is removing the country from a key trade deal. One can be critical of free trade agreements like AGOA and still see how this is coercive and imperialistic. Our Breakthrough News team went to Hawassa Industrial Park, Ethiopia’s largest, to meet […]