colonialism
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Ignoring its imperial history licences the west to repeat it By Seumas Milne
The reporters who heard David Cameron tell Pakistani students this week that Britain was responsible for ‘many of the world’s problems … in the first place’ seemed to think he was joking. But it’s a measure of how far Britain is from facing up to its own imperial legacy that his remarks were greeted with… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Noble’ War In Libya Part 2
Like a skilled conjuror, the media slips effortlessly, and without explanation, between the obvious need for ‘positive engagement’ and the obvious need to ‘confront tyranny’. Continue reading
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Identity and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict By Tom Segev
Video: Israel: A refuge or a colonial project? Pt.5 Israeli historian Tom Segev Continue reading
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AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa By Itai Muchena
Before the Berlin Conference 80 percent of Africa and its natural resources had remained under traditional and local leadership but thereafter the new map of the continent was superimposed over the one thousand indigenous cultures and regions of Africa. Concurrently, Africa’s wealth — as pronounced by its vast human and natural resource base — was… Continue reading
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Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.2
Ronald Charles: After Haitian revolution, colonial oppression turned into oppression by its ruling elite Continue reading
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Adib S. Kawar – Democratizing Colonialism!!! (part of the First Word War)
Colonizers try to justify their invasion and colonization of other peoples’ lands by means of various claims, unlike the earlier western colonizers of the 18th and 19th and early 20th centuries, modern colonizers try to justify their invasion of these lands by claiming that they are aiming at democratizing and liberating the targeted countries, peoples… Continue reading
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Puerto Rican Nationalism and the Drift Towards Statehood
American Imperialism Called to the Colors In 1898, the United States won Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico from Spain. As U.S. troops invaded Puerto Rico, they proclaimed that their intentions were to overthrow the ruling Spanish authorities, thereby guaranteeing individual freedoms for the inhabitants. However, as Michael González-Cruz, an assistant professor at the… Continue reading
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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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Sudan: Alex de Waal, "Saviors and Survivors"
Mamdani sees the Darfur war less as the outcome of the immediate political grievances of Darfurians and the Sudan Government’s specific objectives, but rather as the product of long encounter between the colonial and neo-colonial powers and Africa. Continue reading
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Malcolm X on Zionism
If the Israeli Zionists believe their present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of predictions made by their Jewish prophets, then they also religiously believe that Israel must fulfill its “divine” mission to rule all other nations with a rod of iron, which only means a different form of iron-like rule, more firmly entrenched… Continue reading
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The Coup Five Years On: Haiti's Harsh Realities By YVES ENGLER
Haiti provides an example of how self-described “progressive” Western government-funded NGOs function as an arm of imperialism. A sort of NGO laboratory, Haiti is a highly vulnerable society where NGOs have a great deal of influence. Continue reading
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Gerald Horne: "Solidarity Forever?"
This is a remarkable and often insightful collection of essays and reflections, many of which have been penned by those who played leading roles in the dramatic story of how a conservative hegemon — the United States — was compelled to retreat somewhat in its support for colonialism and apartheid during the second half of… Continue reading
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Edward Hooper October 10th, 2008: AIDS Origins – HIV-1 in 1908? Another sad comedy of errors from Michael Worobey
A much simpler and better-supported explanation for the recently- discovered 1960 HIV-1 fragment is that both it and the 1959 HIV-1 fragment are the results of the administering in Leopoldville and elsewhere in the Belgian Congo from 1957 onwards of different batches of an experimental live vaccine. This vaccine, an oral polio vaccine (OPV) called… Continue reading
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When slaves defeated an empire ‘The Black Jacobins’ By Brian Kwoba
A Trinidad-born writer and socialist, C.L.R. James became a leading intellectual and theoretician within the Pan-African milieu. His book on the Haitian revolution is a Marxist classic. With sweeping literary drama, biting sarcasm and passionate political conviction, The Black Jacobins tells the story of a tremendous historical epoch in brilliant colors. Continue reading
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Yoav Bar – The Crisis of Zionism (and) a Perspective for Palestinian Approach To the Jewish Community in Palestine | Haifa Conference
The situation in Palestine is very different from that of Europe or the US. Since the beginning of the Zionist colonization of Palestine, some 130 years ago, Jews in Palestine were a small enclave of settler population in the midst of the Arab homeland. Colonialism is not external expansionism of some imaginary ‘western-capitalist Israel’, but… Continue reading
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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil By William Bowles
15 November 2007 AIDS, truly the white man’s burden It’s taken decades to unmask the story of how AIDS came to be, and far from being an ‘act of nature’, the real story of its origins is one of ruthless ambition and professional rivalries, entrenched interests, racism and the arrogance and the indifference of the Continue reading
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Oh my, how things haven’t changed By William Bowles
For those readers old enough (or well up on history) what strikes one about the current situation is just how nothing has actually changed when it comes to how the media covers events of importance, especially when it’s ‘us’ versus ‘them’, the ‘us’ being white, European/American ‘civilisation’ and the ‘them’—well pretty much the rest of… Continue reading
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Jive8: Bob Geldof does damage control for international war criminal By William Bowles
The last few weeks have seen a gigantic propaganda onslaught by the state and corporate interests to confuse, misdirect and finally channel peoples’ concerns anywhere except where they truly belong, that is, directed at big business and the political class that represents them, that has for hundreds of years raped Africa and the rest of… Continue reading
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Africa Bound By William Bowles
Dowden and co would have us believe that the fundamental problem lies with African governments, that removing corruption would, in some way, remove a fundamental obstacle to African development when nothing could be further from the truth. For the truth resides in hundreds of years of economic exploitation that has un-developed Africa to the benefit… Continue reading
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Guilt or Guilty? By William Bowles
Without doubt, the Israeli propaganda machine has been a resounding ‘success’ in that it has been able to instil in many of us such feelings of guilt about the Holocaust that few dare even mention the word Jew without surrounding it with a plethora of qualifications lest anyone think that it contains even a hint… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 