Subjects Archives: Empire

President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general.

The incident gets so little media attention despite the fact that Argentinian authorities detained 19 crew members at a Buenos Aires airport at the behest of Washington.

In his speech Friday at the Federal Reserve’s annual summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made one thing clear: America’s financial oligarchy is determined to make the working class bear the cost of the deepening economic crisis.

War is like a volcanic eruption in that it both exposes and obscures the clash of powerful forces.

The president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee (CSC) of Puerto Rico, Milagros Rivera, denounces the intimidation operation unleashed by federal agents through calls and visits to several activists of the Committee and members of the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade.

The media coverage on the Inflation Reduction Act touts its 42% emissions reductions, but we dove into the math and it just doesn’t add up.

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.

On August 7, 2022, Gustavo Petro and his running mate, Francia Márquez, were inaugurated as the President and Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia.

Apple releases security patches to fix a vulnerability that hackers may be taking advantage of.

The hegemony of the U.S. dollar was based on the fact that the world’s wealth-holders considered it to be “as good as gold”, even when it was no longer officially convertible to gold at a fixed rate, as it had been under the Bretton Woods system, after the collapse of that system.

The appalling attack on him. Those who more than 30 years ago put a fatwa on his head after he wrote the novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made this assault possible. They deserve contempt. I wish him a speedy recovery.

The subject relayed in the title is becoming more and more complicated. The Argentinian “justice” system, through the actions of the federal judge of Lomas de Zamora, Federico Villena, and Federal Attorney Cecilia Incardona, is determined to retain the EMTRASUR plane and its crew in Argentina even at the price of violating the fundamentals of law (such as the presumption of innocence) to comply with the seizure order issued by U.S. authorities.

The Gaza attack has heightened Israel’s right-wing political tilt as it approaches its next election.

A man pretending to be a transport ministry official manipulated the driver into removing around 50 Palestinian workers from the bus.

From the persecution and torture of journalist Julian Assange to mass censorship of independent media outlets by U.S. government contractors in Silicon Valley, Washington’s attacks on freedom of the press hurt every country and person on Earth.

Rodney’s most recent, posthumously-published text, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World, offers an important perspective on the time period in which it was written and the internal position of the author. Rodney’s family worked with Robin Kelley in taking Walter’s extensive lecture notes on the Russian revolutionary era and forming them into a complete manuscript.

According to the head of macro analysis at Saxo Bank, the only thing holding back the UK economy from turning into an emerging economy country, given the inflation and political instability, is the lack of a currency crisis.

— The stagflation outside of the United States will be very serious as capital flight to safety causes severe debt and foreign exchange crises in many parts of the world and developing countries face imported inflation due to the strong U.S. dollar, said economist Jayati Ghosh.

— The U.S. dollar hegemony, which has been so crucial in the United States’ own economic expansion, is going to become much more fragile in the future. There’s no question that an increasing number of countries and central banks “are going to think of alternative ways of keeping their reserves and it’s obvious it’s the logical thing to do,” she said.

The U.S. government has many political prisoners, including journalists; national security state whistleblowers; Black, Indigenous, and Latino revolutionaries; foreign diplomats; Muslims detained without trial; women who defended themselves from attacks; and environmental activists.