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Scratch the surface of African history and you’ll find Canadian involvement in colonial rule. This country’s role in the impoverishment of Ghana and Africa in general deserves far greater attention.
Noam Chomsky talks about why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he still believes in average people’s ability to push back against the war machine.
Most of the U.S. population is ignorant about Africa and the consequences of U.S. imperialism there. This is primarily because U.S. educational institutions and the mass media have for decades promoted stereotypes about the continent, and hidden the adverse effects of Western colonialism.
The rise of industrial capitalism was accompanied by a complex transformation of rural society wherein most people were separated from the land, and land was concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority. It happened in different ways and at different times in different parts of the world, and is still going on today.
Noam Chomsky pointedly elaborates in a breathtaking interview that the outcome of the 20-year war on terror, which ended with the Taliban’s return to power, has been disastrous on multiple fronts, and also reveals the massive level of hypocrisy that belies the actions of the global empire.
In 1951 when Ernesto launched his motorcycle adventure, he wanted to be a swashbuckling hero, not a Marxist revolutionary or a guerrilla fighter. On the road, he became another person. He decided that “the poor” were the “unsung heroes” of Latin America.
A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever wars. Also: Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad.
Book Review: ‘Capitalism on a Ventilator’ compares the impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S., in the words of “social justice activists discussing a global choice: cooperation vs. competition.
A 40-year chapter of American involvement has come to an end. But we need to understand how we got here, or else we will simply be waiting for the next monstrous, long-running atrocity to arise, with the same rationalizations of Liberty and Freedom that our leaders have used to cover up their deliberate policies of mass murder, war profiteering and corruption.
Foreign corporations have a lot of freedom in Mexico, and they are backed by trade agreements like NAFTA and USMCA that were created within very unequal power dynamics. As an activist put it succinctly, “This is nothing less than a cultural conquest.”
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