Subjects Archives: Empire

As the United States’ imperial system and Western hegemony circles the drain, lucid thought is becoming a rare commodity. But there is hope.

Judge Christopher Hehir set a disturbing precedent on Thursday after he jailed the activists for a total of 21 years at Southwark Crown Court.

The ghost of “Tail-Gunner Joe” McCarthy is haunting the U.S. Congress.

Next week, on Wednesday, July 24th, Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit Washington, DC, although he has not yet received a formal invitation.

Jalessah T. Jackson: Rooted in revolutionary love, parenting for liberation is an embodied practice in which, to paraphrase June Jordan, I aim to love and nurture my children into their own freedom.

This year’s NATO Summit was a show of the West’s commitment to warmongering and its plans to wreak havoc around the world to maintain its dominance.

If one reads the entire translated transcribed text of Himmler’s speech carefully or listens to it, the thought might suddenly occur to one that history is repeating itself in today’s political arenas.

In 1949, W.E.B. Du Bois testified before Congress to protest against a bill that would fund the new North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

On June 26th, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability sat down for a Congressional Hearing titled, “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare.” This was one of many Congressional hearings aimed at tackling the “China threat.”

Election results in France bring joy but also reveal a difficult road ahead.

Rever: We should not be engaging with, or buttressing a nation that has inflicted so much harm on innocent people.

NATO Summit to take place in U.S. capital as the United States provides unconditional support for Israeli genocide.

The mandate to place Bibles in classrooms reflects a larger effort to undermine the rule of law.

There are roughly four proximate features of capitalist poverty.

In order to allow for a deeper understanding of the ongoing conflict in the Congo today, this newsletter presents an analysis of the resource theft and processes of imperialism and colonialism that have long plagued this part of Africa, including the fight over raw materials that are key for the electronic age.

Fifty years after Nixon was driven out of the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Watergate war criminal that presidents can commit any crime they want.

These are dark days for the empire.

A collection of more than a dozen people’s history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass’s speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.

A deep dive into the complexities and uncertainties surrounding Venezuela’s July 28 presidential elections.

There is no path to a renewable future which leaves American hegemony in place.