Disregard by the dominant powers of human lives in places such as Iraq has a long history. It goes back a hundred years.
Subjects Archives: Imperialism
Imperialism, Globalization, and War
Killing the most beautiful things we own
The fight over the Amazon is not new, but the scale of its potential destruction has considerably increased. The protagonists of the murder of the Amazon are clear: capitalist firms of different scales and the political class that enables them.
New attack on electricity system seeks to halt Chavista counteroffensive
This time the attack was physical: an operation against the bank of high voltage transformers that convert electricity to be transmitted.
Venezuela: New widespread power outage as gov’t denounces alleged attacks
Venezuelan authorities denounced a “double attack” against the country’s electrical infrastructure.
Chagos and the dark soul of the British Labour Party
This analysis shows there could be no more startling illustration of the operation of the brutal and ruthless British Establishment in an undisguisedly Imperialist cause.
A new civilising mission
The campaign to ‘liberate’ Algerian women sheds light on the contemporary place of Muslim women in France—and the double aggression against them, both by the state and by a section of the feminist movement.
Urgent call to celebrate May Day in solidarity with Venezuela
Come see the real “threat” posed by Venezuela—as living proof that another world indeed is possible.
The Grayzone testifies at the UN: ‘Humanitarian crisis in Venezuela: propaganda vs. reality’
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil spoke about Venezuela at a side event at a United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva on March 19. They joined former special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas on a panel titled “Humanitarian crisis in Venezuela: Propaganda vs. reality.”
Traces of the CIA in Venezuela’s nationwide power outage
A CIA has had its eyes on the country’s vulnerability for years, looking to use an electrical failure to promote destabilization and put an end to the Bolivarian Revolution.
John Smith on imperialism (part 4)
“Capitalism/imperialism is extremely proficient at externalizing the costs of its destructiveness, making other peoples and future generations suffer the consequences of its marauding nature but it is not immune from “blow-back” effects. For example, the climate crisis poses a major political challenge to imperialism because it strongly suggests that system change is necessary if we […]
John Smith on imperialism (part 3)
“The chief constraints confronting imperialism are those that arise from capitalism’s own internal contradictions, and these manifest themselves in the systemic crisis.”
John Smith on imperialism (part 2)
With the notable exception of the Monthly Review school, recent studies of financialization by avowedly Marxist and left-Keynesian economists attempt to theorize it in isolation from the transformations that have taken place in the sphere of production, especially the globalization of production processes and their large-scale relocation to low-wage countries.
Impacts of electrical sabotage: an insider’s view
E Bombs, or electromagnetic explosive devices, are weapons of rudimentary design and high destructive potential. The first public and verifiable references of their existence and use in warlike conflicts date from 2001 when the United States included them in its extensive arsenal in the service of preventive war in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
‘Patriotism’ made easy in times of ‘WhatsApp elections’
A WhatsApp-sponsored report, prepared in partnership with Queen Mary University, has raised the alarm that the 2019 elections in India, which already has cleavages on lines of caste, race, gender, religion, would be a fertile ground for damaging fake news.
100 years of Rosa Luxemburg’s Marxism
A Talk at Wits University by Gunnett Kaaf | March 2019
![Venezuela in Uproar - The Paris Globalist The Paris Globalist A woman protests in Caracas in October 2016. [Eneas de Troya:Flickr]](https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Venezuela-in-Uproar-The-Paris-Globalist-The-Paris-Globalist-A-woman-protests-in-Caracas-in-October-2016.-Eneas-de-TroyaFlickr-200x200.jpg "Giving a voice to the Venezuelan people")
Giving a voice to the Venezuelan people
Venezuelan sociologist and former government minister Reinaldo Iturriza calls on the international left to place itself firmly on the side of Venezuela’s popular struggles.
What can Karl Marx offer to the 21st Century?
Two hundred years on, the questions he asked of the world in the 19th century have not lost their relevance or sharpness.
Who’s to blame for the crisis in Venezuela? A response to Gabriel Hetland
Jorge Martin takes recent Gabriel Hetland articles to task, questioning the liberal left’s assessment of the current situation and the solutions proposed.
John Smith on imperialism (part 1)
“The liberal/mainstream notion of imperialism that permeates…bourgeois political opinion proceeds from the elementary observation that the various empires that have existed during the past three millennia share one obvious characteristic, namely territorial conquest accomplished through military force.”
The Christchurch shooting and the normalization of anti-Muslim terrorism
The real forces responsible for the destruction of many Muslim-majority countries and the current chaos present in many Western countries are not generated by civilian populations or religions but instead by the global oligarchy that engineers and profits from this chaos.
