Subjects Archives: Empire

A federal judge in New York issued a ruling on Monday afternoon that the government cannot deport Mahmoud Khalil “unless and until the Court orders otherwise.”

The 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump makes clear that the U.S. has two right-wing parties and no effective left-wing opposition.

The supporters of the Ukraine Solidarity Network (USN) inhabit the same contradictory moral and political space as the European leaders who met with Volodymyr Zelensky, their frontman from Ukraine, to reaffirm their collective commitment to the proxy war in Ukraine.

The International Criminal Court is being urged to investigate former U.S. officials President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Nobody can claim that the rate of growth of agricultural production, especially of food grain production, has been higher in the neoliberal period than during the years of dirigiste development that preceded it; it may have been somewhat lower but let us agree that it is certainly no higher.

While the French Connection imported opium from Turkey, later in the 1960s the center of heroin production shifted to Southeast Asia against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The CIA’s Air America transported the junk.

The cancellation of Milo J’s show at the former ESMA is not an isolated event: it is further proof that the government of Javier Milei is afraid of art.

People in politics and media who oppose the status quo often drift rightward, especially in the U.S. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr are some clear recent examples, but you see it happen all the time.

ON Friday, February 28, when U.S. President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office of the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump mused: ‘I hope I will be remembered as a peacemaker’.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today delivered remarks following President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. Over 91,000 viewers watched in real time on his social media platforms.

Ramped-up economic sanctions will immediately affect the country’s oil output and potentially trigger inflation.

The Irish author talks about his new book on James Baldwin, his influences, and his enduring legacy.

While Donald Trump has sent much of the world in a panic, his second term may strengthen China’s rise, just as his first did.

Israel is also preparing for the full-scale resumption of its genocidal war within 10 days if Hamas doesn’t accept its terms.

We must be able to acknowledge that Donald Trump has created a serious constitutional crisis while also recognizing that changing the U.S. relationship with Russia is groundbreaking and a necessity.

You have to understand this notion of freedom—that to be free, you have to make someone else less free—to make sense of the idea that Donald Trump is a champion of “free speech.”

“When billionaires talk about ‘personal liberties,’” media critic Parker Molloy noted, “they’re usually thinking about their personal liberty to avoid taxation and regulation.”

Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive.

Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War.

The larger rebrand underway is seeing elite “reconciliation” under Trump and plutocrats line up behind the repackaging from a “woke” empire to a more old-fashioned version focused on race, religion and more brazen exploitation.