Lucas Koerner examines the U.S. Empire’s fixation with Chavismo.
Subjects Archives: Empire
“The Most Dangerous Man” Turns 90 – Peter Kuznick on Daniel Ellsberg
Historian Peter Kuznick looks at the significance of Daniel Ellsberg’s fight against America’s insane nuclear war strategy, his exposure of the lies of the Viet Nam War, and his continuing fight against the American war machine.
Assimilation and empire
During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an exponential increase in violence against Asian Americans: in New York alone, it’s been reported that violence rose by 1900%, fueled by anti-Asian sentiment.
What is exploitation?
The word “exploitation” is special for Marxists because it contains a unique insight about the way wealth is produced in class societies.
Silencing Black voters, again
Since the Civil War, voter suppression in America has had a unique cast.
“Wipe out China!” U.S.-funded Uyghur activists train as gun-toting foot soldiers for empire
Cultivated by the US government as human rights activists, Uyghur American Association leaders partner with far-right lawmakers and operate a militia-style gun club that trains with ex-US special forces.
Time to put the spotlight on corporate taxes
A battle is slowly brewing in Washington DC over whether to raise corporate taxes to help finance new infrastructure investments.
Lenin Moreno and the CIA against Andres Arauz
The second round of the Ecuadorian election between the candidate of the pro-Correa citizen revolution Arauz and the banker Lasso is approaching, and things are accelerating in the axis formed by Lenin Moreno and the United States, with its intelligence services at the forefront.
Fuck mindfulness workshops
We need to return to the summer of BLM uprising.
Despite U.S. dirty tricks, Bolivia is finding a way to stay independent
Pressure to prevent Morales from running in the election in 2019 mounted early, but it failed. The opposition—with the full backing of the U.S. government—tried to undermine the October 2019 election by painting it as fraudulent. With no real evidence, the military—with a green light from Washington, D.C.—moved against Morales, sending him into exile.
Cape Verde greenlights Venezuelan gov’t envoy extradition to U.S.
The Cape Verde Supreme Court has approved a request to extradite Venezuelan government envoy Alex Saab to the U.S.
Chevron, ExxonMobil and BlackRock want to teach the Left about “extractivism” in Latin America
Americas Quarterly and AS/COA’s media arm ran a de-facto PR campaign for discredited Operation Lava Jato, which helped impeach Dilma Rousseff, jail Lula, and bring a neofascist (who it called an “arch-conservative”) Jair Bolsonaro to power.
Freedom Rider: Establishment role in anti-Asian bigotry
Joe Biden is no better than Trump in advocating de facto white supremacy with his foreign policy, and corporate media fan the flames of anti-Chinese racism.
Globe & Mail fearmongers about foreign influence while ignoring U.S. government funding to Uighur Rights groups in Canada
It’s curious how Globe and Mail reporters troubled by foreign influence over Canadian politics regularly turn to U.S.-government-funded groups in this country. Are they aware of this irony? Or is their purported concern about foreign influence really about demonizing China?
Terminate NATO
The fact is that NATO should never have been established in the first place. Moreover, the biggest mistake in U.S. history was to convert the federal government to a national-security state.
Jack Ma is not the problem
Broadly speaking, beneath these diverse incidents lies a single force. A great teacher and his generation warned of and suppressed it, but it has sprouted once more since the 1980s. After 40 years, it has taken root in multiple facets of our lives, including thought, society, reality and power.
Why are hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise?
Largely missing from this ongoing discussion is the role of the police and the capitalist state. The media has done an excellent job at depicting these violent acts as interpersonal and individual attacks.
How Chesa Boudin is pursuing his promise to reduce incarceration
After more than a year in office—and despite pushback—the San Francisco DA’s policies have kept people out of jails and prisons.
Washington pressured Brazil not to buy ‘malign’ Russian vaccine
Brazil has suffered the world’s second-worst number of COVID-19 death rates, with Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 policy being described as “homicidally negligent”.
Murdoch Paper gives away the game: Cuomo is on their side
There is certainly a tad of glee in the right-wing media over multiple scandals surrounding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
