Subjects Archives: Imperialism

Their message is clear: When Trump takes the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20, his job is to work for them.

After 15 months of the most horrific live-streamed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has been forced into an interim ceasefire. How long it will last is anyone’s guess but Israel’s contempt for any restraining agreements doesn’t offer much hope.

U.S. imperialism in short believes that it can do whatever it likes, that it is a law unto itself.

Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet.

As progressive governments take office in the Global South, now more than ever there is a burning need for a new development theory that can fulfill the Promethean aspirations of the darker nations.

Game-changing fires destroyed Paradise, California, in 2023, and Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2024—clear warnings, if any were still needed, that the climate catastrophe had arrived.

Trump has promoted a number of plans to make America strong—at other countries’ expense.

The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for imperialist and neo-liberal interests, like all of his white house predecessors.

Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.

We should talk about a malignant influence on Australia’s security which has long been harboured unquestioned–so-called independent think tanks.

Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.

Throughout her hour-long speech Sheinbaum addressed the central role of empowering women in her presidency, outlined her policies and achievements so far and directly spoke to relations with the United States.

Israel assumed that by destroying Gaza, it would eradicate the resistance. However, that calculation was deeply flawed. The resistance in Gaza is directly tied to the Palestinian people. It’s not about eliminating a specific number of fighters but about the enduring bond between the people and the resistance itself.

The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of […]

Our investigation in 2023 exposed how New York’s discipline system failed to hold abusive guards to account.

As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, many residents quickly recognized failures in local and state governments’ ability to protect them from hazardous air pollution.

In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a buzz in the corporate media about President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on annexation.

Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.

Chris Bambery looks at the reasons for the new president’s threat to buy Greenland and finds there is military logic in the madness, and behind it the growing rivalry with China.

World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns.