The New Dark Age

'Socialism or Barbarism'

June 2009

  • Book Review: Nancy Jacobs, "Nation-States as Building Blocks"

    After one hundred pages of questioning the inevitability of decolonization and neocolonial domination, and of generalizing about Africa, we home in on 1960 to make sense of dozens of territories too durable to be taken apart and powerful enough for a degree of innovation. This raises the worthy question of how all these separate histories… Continue reading

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  • The Return of the Resistance By Dahr Jamail

    Attacks against US forces are once again on the rise in places like Baghdad and Fallujah, where the Iraqi resistance was fiercest before so many of them joined the Sahwa (Sons of Iraq, also referred to as Awakening Councils), and began taking payments from the US military in exchange for halting attacks against the occupiers… Continue reading