Subjects Archives: Empire

His views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades.

Simply put, lawfare is war by other means that achieves conquest using laws and judges instead of bombs and bullets.

The U.S. empire is addicted to a belief in its exceptionalism, grounded in aggression both at home and abroad, and finding it hard to admit mistakes.

The fate of billions whom the U.S. dominates and oppresses is effectively exchanged for a few possible reforms in domestic policies that affect parts of middle-class America.

Steve Ellner: “The basic contradiction of capitalism is at the point of production, the contradiction between the interests of the working class and those of capitalists.”

On Friday, April 29, 2022, USLBA hosted a meeting with U.S. officials and U.S. corporate executives to discuss the implementation of the Global Fragility Act in Libya to “prevent conflict and promote stability”. Photo: The U.S.-Libya Business Association

Just 15 years ago, Chinese consumers were flocking to Western brands. Now they prefer Chinese ones.

The ongoing U.S./Israeli genocide has diverted attention away from other crimes. The electricity crisis in Cuba is but one example of how the U.S. determination to dominate has created suffering around the world.

Amazon Worker Solidarity sought to understand how Amazon makes it money to inform organizing strategy in the Amazon movement.

Whoever owns the narrative owns the world–and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as U.S. influence campaigns–or “perception management”.

One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs.

Admiral Steve Koehler, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited Sri Lanka on October 10 in the wake of the election of Anura Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its electoral front, the National People’s Power (NPP).

Students gathered to begin the rally when Dean of Students Danielle McDonald stopped the students and prevented the rally from happening.

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism. Here was a British government offering—how generous of them—to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, whose residents had been brutally displaced between 1965 to 1973, to Mauritius.

SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the sorry career of Brett McGurk.

The West’s failure to bring Israel to justice for its genocide in Gaza has emboldened it to attack Lebanon—and brought the region to the brink of all-out war.

Pierre Trudeau made housing an instrument of economic justice. Fifty years later his son remade it as an engine of inequality.

Despite the policy of ambiguity around Israeli nuclear weapons, it is clear that Israel’s nuclear arsenal poses a significant risk for humanitarian catastrophe in the Middle East and it should take urgent steps towards nuclear disarmament.

On September 12, 2024, a ruling was handed down in the case of the “Uhuru Three.”

Washington has maintained control over Iraq’s oil revenues since its illegal 2003 invasion–a financial and economic subjugation that undermines Iraqi sovereignty and denies it access to its own national treasure.