Subjects Archives: Imperialism

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.

Established as a minor Russian rail junction in 1880, it was badly damaged by the Italians and Germans who captured the city between 1941 and 1943, killing more than 8,000 Red Army defenders, 5,000 residents, and all the Jews.

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

Greetings All, On this Wrongful Conviction Day, Leonard Peltier, the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner, is incarcerated in lockdown-modified operations conditions at USP Coleman I, operated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Yet, in this moment of silence, Leonard speaks. To honor his birthday and all those who are unjustly convicted and incarcerated, the […]

Adam Raz has made an important addition to the study of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in this detailed volume containing original research.

All the mass media personnel who’ve been lying and manipulating for Israel helped pave the way to this.

Andy Higginbottom reviews Adam Hanieh’s crucial new book, Crude Capitalism.

Israel’s latest murderous assault on Lebanon is part of a recurring pattern of imperialist aggression.

CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks.

Human rights organizations launch an international campaign to return Colombian peace negotiator Simon Trinidad back to his home country after being imprisoned in a U.S. supermax prison for over 20 years.

As the presidential election closes in, Jamal Elaheebocus reports on working class strike actions across the USA.

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.

POLITICO reports that U.S. officials Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein, an IDF veteran, told Israeli officials they agreed with the plan to escalate.

Policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are undertaking increasingly brazen acts of escalation in Ukraine designed to bring Russia to the breaking point.

Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinian people has systematically targeted children in both Gaza and the West Bank. The result is a war against an entire generation.

September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the U.S.) agreement.

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

Israel’s assassination of Hasan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hizballah, in an apocalyptic bombing attack on Beirut’s southern suburb on Friday is likely, at least in the short term, to cause enormous shock, despair and demoralization among supporters of the resistance to Zionism in Lebanon and across the region.

The $7.3 billion offer from the investment fund falls significantly short of the Venezuelan refiner’s valuation.

Is it just our filter bubbles? Or is an understanding of the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) slowly making its way into the mainstream?