Viva Palestina – 3 Articles
“That Strong Spirit of Palestinian Emancipation”; “Hamas’s Strategic Survival Drives Israel Crazy”; and: “Contrasting Reality: Treatment of Israeli and Palestinian Prisoners”.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Online Blog | USA
Neofascism in the White House
Not only a new administration, but a new ideology has now taken up residence at the White House: neofascism. It resembles in certain ways the classical fascism of Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, but with historically distinct features specific to the political economy and culture of the United States in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.
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Capitalism | Online Blog | USA
Trump’s War on Migrants – 2 Articles
“The Profits of Fear”: Trump’s mass deportation plans are a racist racket with deep roots in U.S. history and law. Also: “Donald Trump’s War on Migrants”: If Donald Trump launches a war on terror domestically against migrants, that would be a war on America itself.
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On Recent Developments in West Asia Politics – 2 Articles
“Trump Bends the Arc of History in West Asia”; and: “Russia-Iran Treaty Signifies a ‘Breakthrough’ in Ties”.
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Sri Lanka’s People Have Kicked Out the Old Political Class
The progressive alliance that backs Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won a landslide victory in last week’s parliamentary election. The government has a clear mandate for change but now faces many obstacles to its reform agenda.
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Quotas, Protests and Political Monsters in Bangladesh
The upheaval in Bangladesh is reminiscent of Antonio Gramsci’s thesis on political interregnums: “The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”
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Nicaragua: The Next Objective of the Corporate Press and US Imperialism
When Nicaragua again announced its plan to build the alternative interoceanic canal to that of Panama, Washington, Wall Street and large multinationals launched an unprecedented media and political campaign against the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
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140 Years Since the Berlin Congress: The New Scramble for Africa
Driven by internal crises and faced with the rapidly declining position of US and European imperialism on the world scale, the African continent and its rich resources are increasingly seen as a necessary means for their other war fronts.
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King Was Not a Pacifist: He Was an Anti-Imperialist
In his condemnation of the U.S. war on the people of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance was not a pacifist one. King was not necessarily anti-war so much as he was against the U.S. empire and its machinations against the Vietnamese and their generational struggle for self-determination.
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In Memory of Patrice Lumumba, Assassinated on 17 January 1961
On 17 January 2025, we commemorate the 64th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961).
