Subjects Archives: Imperialism

To a person unfamiliar with India’s history and political economy, the Indian government’s response to Trump’s actions must be puzzling.

Throughout his life, Martin Luther King Jr spoke often and with vision about the nature of capitalism.

In a barrage of executive orders issued last week, including one late Monday afternoon targeting so-called “sanctuary” cities, President Donald Trump launched a naked attack on the democratic rights of immigrants and the working class as a whole.

Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well.

Billionaire heiress Shari Redstone has regularly tried to interfere with news coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza on one of America’s leading TV networks.

Every dollar added to the world’s military budgets takes us closer to a potentially apocalyptic scenario of world war.

The U.S. military is preparing for war on China. It has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is turning “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”. Silicon Valley Big Tech oligarchs are making hugely profitable investments.

Walking along the thoroughfares of the Russian capital these days, it’s easy to feel as though you’ve gone “Back to the Future.” Like Marty McFly in the classic 1985 movie, visitors to Moscow might imagine they’ve traveled back in time to the Soviet past, when socialism beat Hitler and the future of communism beckoned on […]

Part 1. On the Courage to Remember The first demonstration I ever went on was at the age of twelve, against the Vietnam War. The first formal history lesson I received came a few months later, when I commenced high school. That day the old history master, Mr. Griffiths, chalked what I later learned was […]

After a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge was arrested on Friday for obstructing justice and harboring an individual, legal experts fear a potential chilling effect.

The details of the ceasefire negotiations between the U.S., Europe and Ukraine continue to make headlines despite being largely irrelevant for an end of the conflict in Ukraine.

ELEMENTARY textbooks in economics invariably begin with a completely mythical concept: the concept of “perfect competition”, which is different from the concept of “free competition” that the classical economists and Marx had used.

U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024, resulting in losses of roughly $77 million per day. Who is the real target of these and other unilateral coercive measures?

The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.

Israel last year passed a law that banned UNRWA from operating in the country.

U.S. Peace Council Statement

We keep hearing that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “AI-powered.” Many pundits warn that this marks a new era in warfare, the first time that “automated” war has been waged. Foreign Policy declares that “AI Decides Who Lives and Dies.” Vox reports that “AI tells Israel who to bomb.” The Washington Post claims “Israel offers […]

The scale and pace of the genocide in Gaza is accelerated by the direct and indirect contributions of American universities.

A cornerstone of Donald Trump’s economic policies is tariffs. Claiming that just about every country in the world has ripped off the United States—even stating that the European Union was established to do this—he sees tariffs as a way for the U.S. to get even.

Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.