Subjects Archives: Imperialism

Whether it’s Macklemore, Hasan Piker, or your neighborhood activist, this is a fight to make sure billionaires and politicians cannot stop free speech and will have to hear the calls to “Free Palestine” whether they like it or not.

The White House began broadcasting on its new media platform, Trump TV, this week, streaming government content, announcements and archived speeches on a continuous basis, days after the country’s major television networks suspended coverage of presidential events.

“After years of corporate greed and impunity, we are holding DoorDash to account.”

Some years ago, when I attended my first NYC Climate Week, I remember leaving one of the many panels I attended that day extremely frustrated and consumed by a feeling of despondency…

The rare announcement from Washington is expected to raise alarm among allies and adversaries alike, experts say.

“The United States will no longer allow threats against the Americas to gain ground anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. And, if necessary, we will use our unmatched military might to secure the vital national interests of the United States,” Trump said.

Ansar Allah can not be beaten by air attacks. Ground campaigns in the mountainous western Yemen, where the majority of the population lives, are extremely difficult. Ansar Allah has modern means—missiles, drones and air defenses—which allow it to retaliate. It was sheer stupidity that led the Saudis into provoking another war with them by bombing Sanaa airport in July of this year.

The policy targets a small minority, as Muslims make up under 5 percent of Italy’s population, a figure most Italians drastically overestimate.

The White House is drafting plans for West Asia after the present stage of the war. They center on containing Iran and pushing more Arab governments into formal relations with Israel.

In Gaza, thousands of children have been killed amid the genocide that’s being imposed by Israel with total impunity. Thousands of them are unaccounted for and buried beneath the rubble. In Cuba, millions of people have survived for years amid blackouts, shortages, difficulties accessing medicines, fuel scarcity, and a profound economic crisis imposed upon them by the United States.

The LCBO makes the inconvenient case that public ownership can be efficient, profitable, and serve the public interest.

Flores filed her application on September 9, requesting permission to await trial under strict home detention because of what her lawyers describe as a serious and continuously deteriorating cardiac condition.

The Bretton Woods system institutionalized the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency, with the U.S. pledging to buy and sell gold from foreign governments and central banks at a fixed price of $35 per ounce of gold.

The attacks on the United States precipitated what the Indian Marxist Aijaz Ahmad called in an eponymous essay and book, “the imperialism of our time.”

For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West; it requires breaking imperialist dependency through the defence of sovereignty, socialist planning, and the transformation of social relations.

Volkswagen’s plant in Osnabrück, Germany, is running out of cars. Weapons production is moving in. 

A chilling aspect of the assault on the people of Ecuador is that it is led by an individual against whom there is strong evidence of links to large-scale drug trafficking: between 2020 and 2025, at least eight large shipments of cocaine—camouflaged in banana crates belonging to the Noboa family and destined for Europe—were seized.

The Trump administration is blocking an agreement that would allow Chagossians who were displaced 60 years ago to return to their homeland.

The Report makes clear that sexualized violence is not an episodic add-on to occupation and genocide. Rather, it is a foundational, legalized aspect of the Zionist project.

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. The rise of modern-day fascism is “not simply a rerun,” explains Klein. “We don’t believe that history repeats on a loop. We believe that we’re in something more like a sequel, where the logics of fascism, which are the logics of dehumanization, of othering, of racial supremacy and hierarchy, are now being applied in a time of global existential crisis.” In response, says Taylor, the growing movement seeking to resist this fatalistic vision “fundamentally needs to be grounded in a desire to stay here on Earth, to commit to this place.