Subjects Archives: Empire

U.S. police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what public safety means, what threatens it, and how to solve it.

Rights groups expect the law to be used disproportionately against Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 20% of the state’s population.

Google–one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world–is filled with ex-CIA agents.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is claiming that just because the U.S. GDP report is negative, it does not mean the world’s largest economy is in recession, a claim that has no economic foundations whatsoever.

Former CIA director James Woolsey has admitted that the U.S. “interferes” in elections in other countries to protect its interests.

I write this article with the purpose of revealing some details about the Anglo-Saxon-supremacist jurisprudence that gave rise to and govern this colonial territorial status.

Universality must be at the core of any progressive electoral platform.

The Jewish Agency is Israel’s life source and the Kremlin shut it down this month. The fallout may be a measurable schism between Moscow and Tel Aviv, in which the latter has a lot to lose.

The retail behemoth has acquired One Medical, which is in the Medicare privatization business.

Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the media. That colonial media mind set in turn promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’.

The unthinkable is happening for the second time in five months: Russian gas giant Gazprom writes to German gas companies announcing force majeure effective from June 14, exonerating it from any compensation for shortfalls since then. 

Dollar hegemony is the system where U.S. overseas military spending and other spending deficits result in U.S. dollar savings in foreign countries.

Prosecutors worried that Jenkins was too close to the mayor and planned to bring back the war on drugs. Many were just fired.

The United States (together with its Western allies) always tries to tell China what to do in managing COVID-19 outbreaks, and since the whole city of Shanghai was under lockdown, the U.S. media seems to have even more reasons to criticize China’s anti-virus policy.

There are many misconceptions about Scandinavian capitalism. A very common one is the belief that since the Scandinavian countries developed vigorous capitalist economies, without ever having acquired any colonies of their own, they constitute a clear refutation of the claim that capitalist development necessarily requires imperialism.

Kenny Coyle exposes the fake news fed to the world by the talking heads of the local CNN or BBC bureaus and beyond.

It is timely not only because NATO is concluding its meeting in Madrid as we speak, but also AFRICOM as one of the many arms of NATO  is conducting its yearly military exercises called “African Lion” on the African continent at this time.

The war in Ukraine, rising oil prices and spiralling global inflation have fuelled food scarcity and surges in the price of basic goods in Egypt. Most worrying among the goods affected is bread, which makes up almost 40 percent of the average Egyptian’s diet.

Bernard D’Mello’s India After Naxalbari: Unfinished History is simultaneously a history of India’s political, economic and social development since the British Raj to the present; a historical retracing of the different attempts to build a revolutionary movement in India; and a political intervention into contemporary debates within the Indian left.

The former White House national security advisor under Donald Trump admits his direct involvement in efforts to overthrow legitimate governments around the globe.