Subjects Archives: Imperialism

Imperialism, Globalization, and War

Residents rip officials for latest delay of Santa Susana Field Lab ... Ventura County Star Melissa Bumstead, an organizer for Parents Against SSFL, holds up a sign to protest

Massive Woolsey fire began on contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory, close to site of partial meltdown

The tremendously destructive Woolsey Fire has been widely reported as beginning “near” the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL or Rocketdyne), but it appears that the fire began on the Rocketdyne property itself.

Wacha: we are a collective that creates artistic intervention in public spaces. We are based in the city of La Plata, Argentina. Our works are collective because we produce them in dialogue with others, but above all, because through our interventions we address historical struggles that transcend us as individuals, and we take them to the street to be interacted with and interpreted. Wacha builds our identity based on Argentinean and Latin American popular culture and from the feminist movement, seeking to create a kind of creativity that is critical, organized and transformative and focused on street art.

Living our lives inside a tragedy the size of the planet

The Tricontinental

After fifteen years in the cold, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) returned to Argentina this May. President Mauricio Macri promised to attract foreign direct investment and to make his country the ‘supermarket of the world’. Instead, Argentina’s economy went into a tailspin. The IMF entered with its shop-worn prescriptions, a recipe that it has effectively […]

Fascists in training: Ukraine’s nationalist youth camps

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The camps organised by nationalist parties train children as young as 8 to hate Russians, foreigners and gay people—and they now receive considerable government money to do so, reports YURAS KARMANAU

Anti-racism protesters outside Edinburgh International Conference Centre

Edinburgh tells fascist Bannon to go back home

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Ex-Trump aide’s visit ‘legitimises racist views’

From left to right: Nepal Vice-President Nanda Kishor Pun (Comrade Pasang), Comrade Prayas (translator), MR author Bernard D’Mello, and Monthly Review Foundation Vice-President John Mage, in February 2007.

Meeting Comrade Pasang, Nepal’s Vice President: Dispatch by a far-flung Bolivarian

Chris Gilbert

How can politics be a way of pursuing the same goals once pursued in war? And through what form of politics? The career of Pasang, from revolutionary military commander to Vice President of Nepal, raises a host of questions about the transition from war to politics and the conditions of victory in each sphere.

Magic imperialism and the great American wall

Andre Vltchek

You all know how the saying goes: “Poor Mexico–too far from God, too close to the United States.”

Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western disinformation on Rwanda

Ann Garrison

The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and justified U.S. military interventions all over the planet. During a recent campaign event, Florida Senator Bill Nelson said, “That story of Rwanda is very instructive to us because when a place gets so tribal that the two […]

Reclaiming radical creativity

Mexie

Podcast (co-hosted with Marine from A Privileged Vegan): veganvanguardpodcast.com ___ adrienne maree brown – Emergent Strategy: https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrat…

#76 – “One-dimensional man”

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“Graffiti is the voice of protest and popular anger that from the ghettos of the big metropolis demand being heard,” Jorit told teleSUR English. Photo:Jorit

Jorit, artist behind Che Guevara, Ahed Tamimi mural: ‘graffiti is the voice of protest’

teleSUR Desk

Italian street artist Jorit Agoch unveiled one of the largest and most impressive murals of the Latin American revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara days ahead of the 51st anniversary of his assassination at the hands of the Bolivian army in La Higuera, Bolivia.

Oxford-style debate: Ethno-nationalism and systemic crisis are symptoms of the present

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In his 1999 book The Bridge over the Racial Divide, William Julius Wilson wrote that economic insecurity creates conditions that hollow out the civic values of liberal democracy, and constitutes the “breeding grounds for racial and ethnic tensions”.

Socialist Register 1989. (Photo Credit: Tendance Coates)

Norman Geras falls foul of Reading University’s ‘prevent’ anti-terrorism strategy.

Andrew Coates

Reading University has reminded me, and others, not just that we miss Norman Geras, but that it would be good to hear his views today. Reading University has also reminded us that there is no fool like a learned fool.

“Hell No!’—Stokely Carmichael twenty years on

Ron Augustin

Within a timeframe of hardly four years, Stokely Carmichael’s organizational efforts evolved from the mobilization of black voters in Alabama and Mississippi to building a large movement resisting the military draft at the height of the Vietnam war, culminating in the SNCC’s “Hell No! We Won’t Go!” campaign.

Western media attacks critics of the White Helmets

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The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovanni titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.

Students in São Paulo debating resistance to Bolsonaro after the election. [Pic- Margarida Salomão on Twitter.]

The lesson of Brazil

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The catastrophe–expected and foreseeable–has happened. This immense country, with its 200 million inhabitants, is now in darkness. At best, it will take a decade or two to emerge.

Header photo: School children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance shortly before the military round-up of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, April 20, 1942. Original caption: “San Francisco, California. Many children of Japanese ancestry attended Raphael Weill public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets, prior to evacuation. This scene shows first- graders during flag pledge ceremony. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. Provision will be effected for the continuance of education.” Photo by Dorothea Lange, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.]

This isn’t the first time white supremacists have tried to cancel birthright citizenship

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Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the U.S. a “White Man’s Country, and threatens all people of color.

A National Guard soldier glasses the US border with Mexico. Josh Lott | Reuters

Trump’s rules of engagement for troops at U.S.-Mexico border mirror those used by the IDF in Gaza

Whitney Webb

The intent behind Trump’s new rules of engagement and considerable militarization of the U.S. border appears to be greenlighting the U.S. military to function as an IDF-style military police force whenever the next “threat” emerges, whether it be “foreign invaders” or “internal enemies.”

Opinion | Democrats, Don't Take Native American Voters for Granted ... The New York Times

U.S. Midterms: Native Americans unyielding battle against voter suppression

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Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that requires North Dakota voters to provide an I.D. with a residential address. The ruling has effectively made the process to vote next to impossible for Native Americans, who by-and-large do not have recognized addresses–but that’s not stopping them.

With “Troika of Tyranny,” Bolton’s long standing push to target Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua finally pays off

Whitney Webb

Bolton’s new “Troika of Tyranny” speech will serve as the foundation for the next and more aggressive stage of the Trump administration’s Latin America policy.