imperialism
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Laughter and fears: Berlin Bulletin No. 231, February 18, 2025
For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back! But sometimes we may allow ourselves a laugh. Such a time arrived this past weekend in Brussels and at the Security Conference in Munich. Though the big shots present were in no laughing mood—but in shock! Continue reading
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Politics – the entertainment division of the military industrial complex
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 — MROnline Donald Trump, an entertainer paid for by the military industrial complex. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Originally published: rabble.ca on November 14, 2024 by Ole Hendrickson (more by rabble.ca) | (Posted Nov 25, 2024) Being from Baltimore, I take civic pride in its writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, H.L. Continue reading
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Niger Coup Explained: West Points to Russia, Ignores Neocolonialism
On July 26, former President Mohamad Bazoum was removed from power by a military general, Tchiani. This has set off a wave of condemnation and threats of military intervention from the U.S. and France, for whom Bazoum proved to be a reliable ally. Thousands have rallied to support Niger’s new leadership since July 26, reportedly… Continue reading
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Cruel Britannia – One of the most aggressive nations on Earth
The United Kingdom has deployed its armed forces 83 times in 47 countries since the end of the Second World War, according to research from investigative journalism outlet Declassified UK. This has included coups, such as in Guyana in 1953, Egypt in 1956, or Libya in 2011. It also includes full-scale invasions of nations, like… Continue reading
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Left anti-communism is what lets imperialist propaganda operate unchallenged
Ukraine is the great test for U.S. imperialism’s ability to sway minds to its side. Two decades into a process of decline for Washington’s hegemony, catalyzed by the irrecoverable global blowback from the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, the imperialists have staked their survival in the outcome of the Ukraine war. Not necessarily in whether Kiev… 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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Will the United States finally decolonize Puerto Rico?
On April 14, 2021 the House Committee on Natural Resources held hearings on two competing bills to end Puerto Rico’s colonial status. The different bills reflect the changing political dynamics in the archipelago, as well as the Puerto Rican diaspora’s growing political clout. H.R.1522, the Puerto Rican State Admission Act, binds Congress to admit Puerto… Continue reading
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When Did the “Cold War” End? Part III
In 1989, before the end of the Cold War, Bush I, Reagan’s successor, invaded Panama, and in August 1990 attacked Iraq, starting the First Gulf War. Continue reading
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Intelligence Sources Say Biggest Threat To U.S. Is Actually U.S. Policy
A new “threat assessment” by the US intelligence cartel has named China the number one threat to the United States today, followed by Russia, Iran, and North Korea. This has of course led to blaring news headlines like “China poses the biggest threat to the U.S., a new intelligence report says” from The New York Times, instead of something… Continue reading
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The Ideology of Late Imperialism
In 1990, when renowned Indian Marxian economist Prabhat Patnaik asked “Whatever Happened to Imperialism?,” once vibrant and influential schools of theories on imperialism were at a postwar historic low.1 When he left the West to return to India in 1974, imperialism was at the center of all Marxist discussions. But when he came back to… Continue reading
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The planet cannot begin to heal until we rip the mask off the West’s war machine
Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies. The state is not primarily there to represent voters or uphold democratic rights and values; it is a vehicle for facilitating and legitimating the concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands. Continue reading
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American Left Silence on China Helps Lay Foundation for the U.S.’ New Cold War
When it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded US ‘left” are allies of white supremacy. Continue reading
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How Does the U.S. Rally Support for Wars That Kill Millions of Innocent People Worldwide?
The US’ wars have killed millions of innocent men, women and children around the world. Yet more often than not they have been based on weak evidence, questionable motives, and outright lies. Why, then, do large portions of the public staunchly support the US troops? Why are so many Americans satisfied with the U.S. bombings… Continue reading
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Never Trust a Failing Empire
The Washington Post, through documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, has published a long investigation into Afghanistan. Journalists have collected over 400 testimonies from American diplomats, NATO generals and other NATO personnel, that show that reports about Afghanistan were falsified to deceive the public about the real situation on the ground. Continue reading
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Western progressives and the imperialist Inquisition
Most people who think of themselves as progressive in the imperialist countries of North America and Western Europe, continue to believe the right wing opposition version of events in Nicaragua in 2018. A great many also accept some version of the right wing opposition account of the crisis in Venezuela. One obvious reason they do… Continue reading
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The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire
That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony “interim president” Juan Guaido are saying the US has… Continue reading
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If You Provoke the Entire World, Something May Happen By Andre Vltchek
The United States believes that it is so invincible, exceptional and so frightening that no one would ever dare to protest, let alone defend its people against constant humiliation, economic embargos and military threats. Continue reading
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Trump’s Delusional Deal for Iran Talks
If US President Donald Trump thinks that by merely saying he doesn’t want regime change in Iran, he can then inveigle the Iranians into talks, he is woefully mistaken. Continue reading
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Shielding the World From US Chaos Is No Easy Task By Federico Pieraccini
Donald Trump’s foreign policy relies heavily on putting to use to the tools available to the Empire: economic terrorism, threats of war, diplomatic pressure, trade wars, etc. But in resorting to tried-and-true imperialism, it is isolating itself internationally from traditional allies and raising tensions on the global chessboard to an unprecedented level. Continue reading
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Target Iran! By Francis Boyle
The author delivered this speech at the Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on June 22, 2006. That year the U.S. had deployed aircraft carriers to the Persian Gulf and tensions then, as now, were high. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 