Subjects Archives: Empire

Long Forgotten Is the Role that Veteran Anti-War Activists Played in Ending the Vietnam War.

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are charting a new course—one of increased economic and security sovereignty.

U.S. military spending is almost equal to that of the 10 countries that follow it in the table, including Russia, China and India, its NATO allies, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy as well as Japan, Korea of the South and Ukraine.

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war.

A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away.

Abroad and at home, ideology ruled the U.S.

The actor’s suicide highlights the truth about the overlooked despotism of a vital U.S. ally.

Alex Saab was freed from U.S. captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.”

Clare Daly criticizes this individual for endorsing a genocidal apartheid regime, and concludes her statement with “Nein danke” (German for “No, thank you”).

Attacks on the progressive Indian news outlet NewsClick coincided with the suspension of 141 opposition members of Indian parliament, both constituting serious attacks on Indian democracy.

As the Israeli attack on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria intensifies, the U.S. public watch on aghast. A new poll finds that Americans support a permanent ceasefire by a more than 2:1 ratio (including the vast majority of Democrats and a plurality of Republicans).

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Thursday local time in a joint press conference that they had discussed the “vital” U.S.-UK Indian Ocean air base at Diego Garcia.

Over a 12-year span, three out of every four state correctional officers fired for abuse or covering it up got their jobs back.

The German chancellor has taken credit for a cunning coffee break tactic, which saw the European Union voting to advance accession talks with Ukraine.

The U.S. military has illegally occupied Syrian sovereign territory since 2014, preventing Damascus from accessing its own oil and wheat fields. The Senate voted 13-84, rejecting a resolution to withdraw U.S. troops.

Senate Bill 4 could be the vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to finally unleash Lone Star Republicans on the world’s huddled masses.

The basic theme is to suggest that under neo-liberalism there has been such an acceleration of the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product that the people as a whole have become much better off, and vast masses of them have been lifted out of poverty (one particular enthusiast has even claimed that poverty now afflicts only 2 per cent of the population).

The Asia-Pacific region has once again become a hotspot in Washington’s new Cold War, as Biden’s Indo-Pacific Strategy has been dead set on forging a new anti-China bloc across the region.

These are the final days of 2023. But are we sure it’s not the end of 1953?

Humanity has prevailed,” said Egyptian Ambassador Osama Abdel Khalek. “The Israeli aggression on Gaza must end. This bloodshed must stop.”