King Was Not a Pacifist: He Was an Anti-Imperialist
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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.

Bertrand Russell: Redefining the Public Intellectual in an Era of Rising Authoritarianism
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Bertrand Russell: Redefining the Public Intellectual in an Era of Rising Authoritarianism

To remember Russell is to remember the indispensable role of hope in the face of despair, the necessity of resistance when the specter of fascism is with us once again, and the moral obligation to imagine and fight for a world yet to be born.

Trump Is Cutting the Last Threads of the Tattered Cloth of ‘the Rules-Based International Order’
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Trump Is Cutting the Last Threads of the Tattered Cloth of ‘the Rules-Based International Order’

What do Panama, Canada and Greenland have in common? Could Donald Trump be getting the U.S. back to brass tacks, to a core strategy of dominating the Western Hemisphere? Possibly, and he may be blowing away the fraudulent rhetoric about rules-based international order, territorial integrity, international law and the crusade to expand democracies.

U.S. Corporate Land Grab in Ukraine Underlies War with Russia
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U.S. Corporate Land Grab in Ukraine Underlies War with Russia

In early November, Barbara Bonte, a Belgian member of the European Union (EU) parliament, raised concern about the sell-off of Ukrainian land on a massive scale to U.S. private equity firms along with some Saudi agro-industrial and investment businesses.

The Sahel States Alliance and the Fears of Pro-Western Agents
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The Sahel States Alliance and the Fears of Pro-Western Agents

The countries of the Alliance-Confederation of Sahel States continue to strengthen their sovereignty and their alignment with Pan-African values and a multipolar world. This development has deeply unsettled Western regimes and their agents on the African continent.