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).
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How Gaza Defeated Israel – 3 Articles
After Israel’s protracted genocide in Gaza, the ceasefire delivers a devastating victory for the Palestinian resistance and a smug defeat for Israelis, who were forced to cough up unprecedented concessions, leaving Hamas whole and the strip unoccupied.
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“GDP-Nationalism”
Anti-colonial third world nationalism is entirely different from the nationalism that developed in Europe in the 17th century. It is best reflected in the difference between the nationalism of a Hitler, which is descended from European nationalism, and that of a Ho Chi Minh, which exemplifies anti-colonial nationalism.
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Buying Greenland: Trump’s Arctic Manoeuvres
You might think Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. could buy Greenland from Denmark is just bonkers. The idea of buying Greenland is not quite so mad if you know your history.
