Category Imperialism

Trump Kills #1 Enemy Of Isis In Iran, WTF?

 

Black Alliance for Peace: The War over Meaning — Global Research

By Black Alliance for Peace The struggle over interpretation or meaning has emerged as a critical terrain of struggle as the ruling class desperately attempts to maintain the dominance of the liberal capitalist/democratic discourse as the only legitimate interpretative framework. The ruling elite’s efforts to impose meaning and to control the narrative are becoming more difficult […]

Impeach the Government: Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades — Global Research

  “When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the […]

Obama’s legacy must be repudiated

Obama Condemns “Call Out Culture” Despite Being Its Biggest Beneficiary Danny Haiphong Obama’s cynical analysis of youth activism was yet another dog whistle to the wealthiest and most conservative sections of white America. Hillary Clinton is not the only servant for the lords of capital in the Democratic Party that won’t go away. Former president […]

Our democracy is not in peril—we do not live in a democracy

Chris Hedges Our democracy is not in peril—we do not live in a democracy. The image of our democracy is in peril. The deep state—the generals, bankers, corporatists, lobbyists, intelligence chiefs, government bureaucrats and technocrats—is intent on salvaging the brand. It is hard to trumpet yourself as the world’s guardian of freedom and liberty with […]

Psychopathocracy: The Sickness of American Foreign Policy

By Eric Zuesse “Virtually all politicians who are elected to national office are psychopaths.” The Military-Industrial Complex runs US foreign policies. What passes for international ‘news’ reporting in the United States media was supremely represented by the instance of those ’news’ media stenographically reporting the Government’s lies about ’Saddam’s WMD’, even after it was unarguably clear that […]

Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon. — Caitlin Johnstone

  Caitlin Johnstone Surely with all this talk about the huge, sweeping changes that are required to avert climate catastrophe we’re not going to overlook the world’s single worst polluter   Millions of people are uniting in demonstrations worldwide against our civilization’s ecocidal march toward extinction, which makes me so happy to see. It’s really encouraging to […]

Obama has turned African Americans into “black gringos”

Believe Absolutely Nothing the US Government and Media Say About…Anything Glen Ford In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples. We betray ourselves and become Black Gringos. “The epic struggle for Black self-determination is inseparable from the struggle for peace and a livable planet.” There was a time, […]

“United States” to Imperial America: Our Hidden Empire

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget — World Socialist Web Site (en)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, both members of the Democratic Socialists of America, voted for a bill that includes a record $738 billion for the military. […] The most politically significant backing for the budget—and its record $738 billion for the Pentagon—came from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, the two representatives who are members of the […]