Category: Anti-Imperialism/Foreign Policy

Trump’s Russia–Ukraine Diplomacy Is Working

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sudden announcement last Saturday of a unilateral Easter truce in Ukraine seems to have opened a new path to peace. That’s somewhat surprising, considering Putin’s promise initially met extreme skepticism. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested […]

Candles

Caitlin Johnstone Apr 17, 2025 Listen to a reading of this piece by Tim Foley: They are sending billionaires and pop stars into space while the planet burns and Americans ration their insulin. There are companies marketing AI lovers to lonely people and harvesting their data. Last night […]

Greenland Deserves Solidarity, Too

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very strange has happened to American colonialism. Somewhere between the shock-and-awe of Dubya’s New American Century and the explosive verbal dysentery of Orange-Sphincter-Bad, Uncle Sam’s mask of sanity got cracked. Naturally, the neocons and neolibs will blame […]

A War with Iran Would Not Be Wise

by Kenneth Schmidt Kenneth Schmidt Apr 11, 2025 Kenneth Schmidt warns that despite Trump’s peaceful instincts, escalating tensions with Iran — fueled by Zionist advisors — risk dragging the U.S. into a disastrous, unwinnable war against a vast, mountainous, and fanatically defended nation. President Trump has been engaging […]

War With China

War With China Plus: Theories to explain Trump’s behavior, the radium girls, university investigations, and more… LIZ WOLFE We’re doing a trade war: It’s just not quite as extensive as previously feared. President Donald Trump announced yesterday, after more market bloodbath, that he would pause the implementation of his […]

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2025 It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights… Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is […]

Endeavouring to think Gaza

Endeavouring to think Gaza Mourners gather around the bodies of Palestinians who were killed by the Israeli army, at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on March 18, 2025 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP] What is the power, or even usefulness of thought, before the physical violence of mass murder? Perhaps […]

OCGFC: The Global Shift

This 6.5-minute video is absolute perfection in its simplicity and summarization of neoliberalism’s last 50 or so years. It can be a complex subject matter, and getting the masses to understand its birth and history is difficult. I wish this could be played on a billboard in every […]