AFRICOM: The expansion of U.S. military interests on African soil
Subjects Archives: Empire
Resisting Amazon is not futile
Amazon represents the pinnacle challenge to union organizers and socialists throughout the country. Are we in a 1919 moment, still a generation of failures away from breakthrough success? Or closer to 1935, approaching the tipping point of winning real worker power?
Rafael Correa on Venezuela, Assange, and ‘preventing the total destruction of our homeland’
Max Blumenthal interviews former Ecuador President Rafael Correa, who was in Venezuela to observe its legislative elections and show support to a government under sustained economic and political attack by the U.S.
Marxism vs the state
Karl Marx developed his theory of revolution by arguing against would-be progressives who looked to the capitalist state as a force for progress.
Qiao Collective on challenging U.S. aggression on China, the role of the Western left
On the domestic front, the U.S. propaganda machine mostly works instead to position China as this great, menacing oriental Other. We’ve seen this during the COVID-19 pandemic in Trump’s rhetoric about the “China virus” and in Biden’s attempts at one-upmanship.
Silencing Black radicalism since the Cold War
Describing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as socialist and accusing them of fomenting disorder in America’s urban areas invoked racial disorder for the majority white voters who cast their ballots for an avowed white supremacist.
U.S. media, pols rage after Venezuelans defy U.S. empire to re-elect socialists
Despite the fact that the election was overseen by 1,500 international observers, U.S. pols and media pundits alike labeled it a sham before it even took place.
Pentagon to Biden: Latin America a major battlefield in war with China
The head of SOUTHCOM, Admiral Craig Faller, told Pentagon reporters Wednesday that U.S. imperialism’s “competitive edge [in the region]…is eroding, particularly when it comes to the Chinese influence.”
COVID-19: Deadliest day recorded
The number of recorded infections now tops 14 million and the total official death toll stands at more than 274,000.
“Awkwafina is Nora from Queens” demonstrates the depths of New Cold War propaganda against China
In the season finale, the liberal mask comes off and the program morphs into a screed for the U.S.’s New Cold War on China.
Ireland and U.S. Imperialism
When discussing Ireland’s role in imperialism today it is vital to highlight the role Ireland plays in assisting the U.S. to extract profits from ‘poorer nations’. That is to say nations that have abundant natural resources that the mass of the local population do not get to reap the benefits of.
With rent freezes about to expire, Mnuchin lobbies for more Wall Street bailouts
As millions of Americans stand on the brink of economic annihilation, the money keeps flowing to Wall Street thanks to carefully contrived mechanisms to maintain a dying financial system afloat.
Venezuela wins simply by holding an election
The upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela are going to be held in a context of great adversity are an important step in the democratic recuperation of the country’s institutions from the U.S.-backed opposition.
Trump is showering Saudi Arabia with last-minute gifts
Saudi Arabia’s use of American diplomatic cover and weapons alike has taken on a fevered pace as the Kingdom deepens the tragedy it has afflicted upon Yemen.
Parliamentary Elections in Venezuela: All you need to know
For the first time in recent history, Venezuela’s left is divided. Will this disrupt the PSUV’s plans to retake control of the National Assembly?
Biden, the emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball
The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker when summoned.
“Superheroes” and “Nice” guys: Coverage of Biden’s hawkish cabinet picks is predictably lacking
Just as they failed to hold power to account in the run-up to the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, corporate media is refusing to ask the hard questions about Biden’s hawkish cabinet picks.
Freedom Rider: Censorship in the Biden era
The corporate media have joined the incoming administration in deciding what we can and cannot see and hear.
U.S.-China relations: Beijing slams State Department report ‘concocted by Cold War fossils’
China has described a U.S. report on how Washington should confront and contain Beijing as having been “concocted by Cold War fossils” who are destined to be “swept into the garbage dump of history”.
How Joe Biden plans to make the American empire great again
Behind his rhetoric, Joe Biden will seek nothing less than global supremacy, escalating a new and even more dangerous arms race that risks the destruction of humanity, what he calls “decency” and “normalcy.”
