colonialism
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Oh, Drop the Act – Fascism is the Beating Heart of Western “Civilization”
Notice the pattern: All world wars are the West’s handiwork and most genocides were committed by Europeans – Let’s start seeing Western “civilization” for what it truly is. Continue reading
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Aden: an imperial mess with modern echoes
The chaos in Basra has led to calls for troops to withdraw from Iraq. John Game looks at parallels with Britain’s exit from Aden in 1967 Continue reading
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A dirty war in Aden: Britain’s role in Yemen’s history
British forces killed hundreds in their war for the port of Aden, in today’s South Yemen. Western interference continues today causing bloodshed and division as Yemen becomes the new front in the ‘war on terror’, writes John Newsinger Continue reading
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Scraps of Paper, Enduring Chains: Africa and the Legacy of Western Treaties
For centuries treaties have exploited Africa. From the Papal Bull, issued by Pope Nicolas V to the ICC Treaty, the West has played a significant role in dictating the terms of Africa’s international engagement. Continue reading
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United Kingdom refuses to break with neocolonialism in its relations with the Global South
The question of whether the United Kingdom is capable of offering true, equal, and mutually beneficial cooperation becomes clear when observing its practical actions and underlying interests. Continue reading
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In neocolonial rant, EU says Europe is ‘garden’ superior to rest of world’s barbaric ‘jungle’
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell showed the West’s neocolonial mentality claiming “the world needs Europe” as a “beacon” and beautiful “garden” to civilize the barbarous “jungle” in the Global South. He also called for regime change to create a “post-Putin Russia.” Continue reading
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Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade
What role should greed play in how we run the world? Should it rule us and shape all that we do? Continue reading
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Why does the United States continue to occupy a Haitian island?
The Americans mined a million tons of guano on the island without paying a cent to the Haitian authorities. Other countries have sold the product for hundreds of millions of dollars Continue reading
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Exclusive: How Shell and BP financed Britain’s Cold War propaganda machine
“Handsome” sums were provided by BP and Shell to the Information Research Department (IRD), which was Britain’s Cold War propaganda arm between 1948 and 1977, declassified files show. The IRD used the secret subsidies to fund British covert propaganda operations during the 1950s and 1960s across the Middle East and Africa, where Britain’s oil interests were substantial. Today,… Continue reading
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Puerto Rico: between colonialism, racism and slavery on July 25
Despite the harsh reality that Puerto Rico is neither free, nor associated, nor a state, July 25 marks the day of the creation of the constitution of the “Free Associated State,” or commonwealth, of Puerto Rico. Continue reading
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Watch MR Classic: Kwame Nkrumah’s ‘CONCIENCISM’
Monday, 30 May 2022 — Youtube [As a teenager in the early 1960s, Kwame Nkrumah was one of my heroes, the voice of a newly liberating Africa! So how do his words and thoughts come across 60 years later, with the US/AFRICOM stomping across Africa? WB] Continue reading
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Probing the depths of the CIA’s misdeeds in Africa
In 1958, a year after it achieved independence from colonial rule, Ghana hosted a conference of African leaders, the first such gathering to ever take place on the continent. At the invitation of Ghana’s newly elected prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah, more than 300 leaders from 28 territories across Africa attended, including Patrice Lumumba of the… Continue reading
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‘The Demonization Was Meant to Pacify Readers to Accept the Brutality’
Listeners will be familiar with the imagery that corporate media have long used to talk about Africa and Africans. Not just tabloids that blare their racism in crude cartoons–elite media have been key in promoting the narrative in which Europeans represent civilization, which they feel moved to provide, on their own terms naturally, to Africans… Continue reading
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Climate Collapse Will Create The Next Wave Of Genocide Against Colonized Peoples
At the end of this century, people will conclude that the warming of the climate precipitated a rise in white nationalism like we’ve never seen before. This climate-related fascist upswell, which is already at play, will be unprecedented in that the crisis preceding it is unprecedented. The rise of fascism in the early-to-mid 20th century… Continue reading
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Black Alliance for Peace: Fascism Was Born in the Colonies, Not Europe
Ajamu Baraka, the former Green Party vice presidential candidate and current national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace – a member of the Black is Back Coalition — says Europe must be “de-centered” from discussions of fascism. African people need to “reject the assumption that fascism was something new and unique to Europe in… Continue reading
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Tearing down statues isn’t vandalism. It’s at the heart of the democratic tradition
It is easy to forget how explicitly racist British society was within living memory. I’m not talking about unconscious prejudice, or social media tropes. I’m talking about openly celebrating racism in the public space, about major companies making racism integral to their brand, a selling-point. Continue reading
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Watch Nkrumah: The Forces Arrayed Against Us Are Formidable
The Conference which took place in Ghana – Accra, brought together freedom fighters from all over Africa including independent and colonized states, to address the way forward to the objective of Africa’s unity. Continue reading
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Africa’s Future: The Gravest Untruth Will Tell
21 May 2020 — New Eastern Outlook By Phil Butler There is a 21st-century scramble for the remaining resources of Africa. The Anglo-European scavengers who drained African blood the last two hundred years are telling us it’s the Russians and the Chinese who seek fortune there. The reality is, as it has always been, an Continue reading
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How to Find a Tiger in Africa: Searching for Agostinho Neto (1922 –1979) By T.P. Wilkinson
What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I began to search for Agostinho Neto. I also want to explain the perspective that shapes this search.[i] Continue reading
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Australia’s Pacific Play: Denying Climate Change and Boosting China’s Threat by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Australia has always nursed a contradictory, repressive relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Being a satrap of great powers, it has performed the role of gate keeper and monitor of regional instability, a condescending, often paternalistic agent. At stages, it has also entertained more direct colonial interests. For almost seven decades, Australia controlled Papua New Guinea,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 