Subjects Archives: Imperialism

Andy Burnham’s gift of British blueprints for key missile components to Ukraine signals another step closer towards a wider European conflict finds Robert Dale.

Missile units on southern islands, troops moving on civilian ferries, command bunkers dug underground: a grassroots movement across Japan is trying to halt the drift back towards imperial confrontation. Remembering the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A new study warns that Ukraine’s expanding system of memory laws has turned historical narratives into a tool of state enforcement, deepening restrictions on public discourse and intensifying efforts to shape national identity amid the conflict with Russia.

Israel’s Chief Rabbi David Yosef denied Palestinian peoplehood and rights while calling for Gaza’s destruction and renewed Jewish settlement in the enclave.

Colombia’s recently inaugurated right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella is moving rapidly to transform Colombia into a neo-colonial outpost after taking office in early August, giving the U.S. permission to enter Colombian territory under the pretext of “fighting drug cartels.”

From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces.

Thousands of children who lost their families in Israeli strikes navigate grief, trauma and adulthood with little support.

At this hour, solidarity begins with a clear demand: the United States and Israel must end their illegal war, and they must retreat.

It is long past time for Canada to apply the principle of economic sovereignty consistently.

This book is a great tale of the lives of working-class New Yorkers.

Colombia’s ex President Gustavo Petro accused the USA and Israel of meddling in the election to put in power far-right leader Abelardo de la Espriella, a pro-Trump U.S. citizen and ally of drug traffickers.

The following article takes the two chains apart–four degrees of hedged separation in the British case, and in the American one the discovery that socialists are interested in socialism.

It was the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, later to be renamed Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act that was enacted by the UPA-I government under Left pressure (since the government depended on Left support).

Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.

The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

More incitement to violence from Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir exposes how colonial violence is aimed at the entire colonised population.

204 Atomic Bombs, 66 Urban Areas. “Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”

Professor Leibowitz was raised as an Orthodox Jew and remained one throughout his life. I had become observant barely a decade earlier and was drawn to this brilliant polymath—a deeply committed Judaic scholar and a fearless critic of oppression and injustice. I was eager to understand his views on science, Judaism, and Zionism.

Sixty-five years ago today (13 August), the “Berlin Wall” was erected.

Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. U.S. median wealth is quite low. This is the real data.