Subjects Archives: Imperialism

Whether it’s total conquest or managed containment, Israel doesn’t have a single grand strategy for Gaza, but it uses the possibility of both to prolong the war.

Inside the Catholic Church’s misguided plan to fix American Catholicism.

As Britain hands the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, the continued exclusion of Diego Garcia from resettlement and scrutiny raises alarms. Despite Mauritius’s commitments under the Pelindaba Treaty establishing an African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, U.S. control of the base may violate the treaty.

Under Trump, Racism Isn’t Just the Subtext, It’s the Text.

In Tehran, bewildered diplomats told me they suspect the Trump administration is exploiting nuclear negotiations as a instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran’s economy and foment social strife.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head Kristi Noem sent a letter to Harvard University Thursday informing the school’s administration that she was revoking its ability to enroll international students under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a U.S. regime-change tool.

Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.

On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time officially stated that an Israeli war aim is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, openly stating what had been the unspoken goal of Israel since October 7, 2023.

Many critics of Microsoft’s outsized role in Israel’s war argue that when a foreign state and its allies in Silicon Valley can paralyze an international court with the click of a button, it’s not just Gaza under siege, it’s in our institutions, our tech, and our sovereignty.

At the time of the 1949 revolution, China was largely an agrarian society with widespread poverty, famine and lack of infrastructure.

Dr. Brown said the museum had previously asked to keep the items permanently. “Now, all of a sudden, you can have it back,” he said. “There was no conversation. Just an email.”

The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed alarm on Monday over the increasing risk of famine in the Gaza Strip, where “two million people are starving,” according to him.

They have opted for their slow-motion strangulation approach because that’s what’s necessary to maintain essential western support and avoid war crimes tribunals.

With President Donald Trump and his team launching an aggressive attack on international institutions and threatening to pull out from many of them, there has been speculation about whether they would adopt the same strategy with respect to the Bretton Woods institutions.

Simply building new homes isn’t enough to solve the housing crisis—what we build and for whom matters a lot more.

Israel announced the initial phase of “Gideon’s chariots,” the expanded ground invasion to permanently “conquer” Gaza, amid reports that Trump reneged on his deal with Hamas to lift the blockade, and will reportedly expel 1 million Gazans to Libya.

The news that a group of “Afrikaners” (Afrikaans-speaking white people from South Africa) have shown up in the United States, invited by the Trump administration as “refugees,” shouldn’t come as a surprise. Donald Trump is obsessed with South Africa; he has been for years.

Germany, long a synonym for economic brawn and muscle, is beginning to recall words like lumbago or sciatica instead. Though still leading in Europe, and fourth in the world, it faces an economic mess, a political mess, and a mood of general stress. Schools lack repairs and teachers, clinics and hospitals lack staff, its key […]