Subjects Archives: Empire

The Trump administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget calls for up to $880 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next 10 years to help fund massive tax cuts for the rich.

Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.

Columbia University has suspended 65 students for joining a pro-Palestine and anti-genocide protest inside the university’s main library on Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Boots Riley, Kneecap, Residente and dozens of other artists have signed an open letter protesting the censorship of Kehlani after the NYC mayor’s office pushed for the cancellation of her pride concert.

Hideous nature of the war exposed him to ugly realities of U.S. and Western imperialism.

Intelligence agencies have been identifying individuals who align with U.S. strategic interests.

DK Renton unpicks the legal background to the Supreme Court decision and argues for a strategy of mass action to turn back the tide of right wing authoritarianism.

In commemoration of the Nazi surrender ending the second world war on May 8, 1945.

The U.S., particularly oligarchs like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Harlan Crow, and Rupert Murdoch, seeks to shape the world according to their own image. The hypothetical Mar-A-Lago accord, proposed by the Hudson Institute–a neoconservative think tank funded by right-wing billionaires–lays out a position paper calling for the U.S. government to restructure the global trade and financial architecture.

Last night Trump conceded that the campaign was lost. He order the U.S. fleet to retreat.

In a March 31st article published by the North Carolina Black Alliance, the Smithsonian leader revisits history during an HBCU stop at Shaw University; Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch said, “I will probably get fired at some point,” Bunch said. “But I think the goal would be to, sort of, fight the fight as long as you can.”

It seems as if the entire disgraceful history of U.S. illegality in Latin America is distilled in the saga of Kilmar Ábrego García: the man whose illegal deportation to El Salvador and imprisonment in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has sparked outrage in the United States among human rights defenders and opponents of the Trump administration.

To a person unfamiliar with India’s history and political economy, the Indian government’s response to Trump’s actions must be puzzling.

Throughout his life, Martin Luther King Jr spoke often and with vision about the nature of capitalism.

In a barrage of executive orders issued last week, including one late Monday afternoon targeting so-called “sanctuary” cities, President Donald Trump launched a naked attack on the democratic rights of immigrants and the working class as a whole.

Billionaire heiress Shari Redstone has regularly tried to interfere with news coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza on one of America’s leading TV networks.

The U.S. military is preparing for war on China. It has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is turning “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”. Silicon Valley Big Tech oligarchs are making hugely profitable investments.

Walking along the thoroughfares of the Russian capital these days, it’s easy to feel as though you’ve gone “Back to the Future.” Like Marty McFly in the classic 1985 movie, visitors to Moscow might imagine they’ve traveled back in time to the Soviet past, when socialism beat Hitler and the future of communism beckoned on […]

After a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge was arrested on Friday for obstructing justice and harboring an individual, legal experts fear a potential chilling effect.

ELEMENTARY textbooks in economics invariably begin with a completely mythical concept: the concept of “perfect competition”, which is different from the concept of “free competition” that the classical economists and Marx had used.