A Comparison of Two Large, Lapsed, Democracies
The similarities and differences in the authoritarian projects in two countries.
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From the Rockies to Stockholm: Ignoring the Global Crisis
A significant economic slowdown into stagnation, alongside still relatively high inflation; a crippling debt burden for the majority of the world’s population eking out a bare living; and an accelerating climate crisis—none of these issues will be discussed in the Rockies or in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm.
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Fascism | Online Blog | USA
Trump’s “21st-Century Fascist Regime” So Far: A Terrible Record
Some horrific facts from the recent history of the man who Noam Chomsky rightly identified five years ago as “the most dangerous criminal in human history.”
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A Brief History of U.S. Military Interventions Within the United States
Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion, deploying federal military forces within the U.S. is a drastic and historically rare move. For Trump to take such a profound leap is an admission that a conflict at home is being equated to an overseas war.
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Capitalism | Online Blog | Ukraine | USA
The War in Ukraine—A History: How the U.S. Exploited Fractures in the Post-Soviet Order
The author explores how the breakup of the Soviet Union, the aggressive expansion of NATO, U.S. neoconservative geopolitics, present-day Ukraine’s domestic tensions, and other factors led to the current conflict, in which the only winner seems to be the United States.
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From Media Darling to Persona Non Grata: Greta Thunberg’s Journey
As Greta Thunberg has widened her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that is causing climate breakdown, and the Israeli attack on Gaza she has labeled a “genocide”, the global elite has dropped her, and coverage of her in the newspapers has drastically fallen.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
The Banana Road from South America to China
On the global banana trade, and how the United States is trying to make the commerce in bananas into a national security issue.
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The Empire Never Died
There’s long been a debate over whether Britain’s Empire—the largest the world has ever known—was a good or bad thing. There’s another question though—did it really end?
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Punishing Progress: Washington Targets Social Achievements of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela
The authors take stock of the collective progress in Latin American countries targeted by the US for regime change.
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Resistance Works
How small groups took on great powers and won a victory for decolonisation, Africa, indigenous peoples, and more.
