Category: Anti-Imperialism/Foreign Policy

The Tiger Show

Caitlin Johnstone Jan 31, 2025 Listen to a reading of this piece (reading by Tim Foley): It doesn’t have to be this way. Nowhere is it inscribed upon the fabric of reality that control of the world must be ceded to the dumbest, crudest and cruelest among us. […]

Columbia University suspends one student as it expedites investigation into Israeli history class disruption

Columbia University suspends one student as it expedites investigation into Israeli history class disruption January 24, 2025 Columbia University says it has suspended one student after “expediting” its investigation into a group who disrupted a class on Israeli history. Demonstrators handed out flyers with “violent imagery” to students […]

Russia’s Losing Liberals

Sponsored by Bloomsbury Gary Saul Morson With Liberals Like These Twice in modern Russian history—in 1905 and in 1985—liberal reformers have gained influence only to be succeeded by autocratic regimes. Advertisement Nicole Flattery The House of Self-Worth In Halle Butler’s third novel, Banal Nightmare, the real enemy is the […]

With Hardship Comes Ease

A poem for Palestine, hope, and hardship! Ahmad Ibsais Jan 30, 2025 With Hardship Comes Ease Have We not lifted from you your burden That weighed heavy upon your shoulders? And raised high your remembrance Through every broken window and door? For indeed, with hardship comes ease – […]

Fathoms

Caitlin Johnstone Jan 29, 2025 Listen to a reading of this piece (reading by Tim Foley): And the liberals shriek about Donald Trump while the sky rains blackened skeletons And the capitalists surf on collapse like raptors on an updraft And we scurry back and forth between toil […]

Trump: Caesar of the New Imperium

by Constantin von Hoffmeister Constantin von Hoffmeister Jan 27, 2025 Constantin von Hoffmeister unveils Trump as a Spenglerian Caesar, a Faustian force reviving the West’s will-to-power, where hierarchy replaces decay and destiny is forged through strength and action. The empire reawakens, its arteries, once choked by compromise, now […]

Some Perspective Is In Order

On the US desire to purchase Greenland Niccolo Soldo Jan 28, 2025 Share I think that some perspective is in order: The USA (or at least its allied in coordination with it) destroyed the Nordstream pipeline that connected Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea President Trump is […]

In The Thick Of It

Caitlin Johnstone Jan 25, 2025 Listen to a reading of this piece (reading by Tim Foley): Here in the thick of it, our eyes full of pixels and our veins full of microplastics, out here with the child amputees in Gaza and the frightened street schizophrenics in Los […]

Postcolonial Theory

Troy Southgate Jan 26, 2025 FOR those of you unfamiliar with so-called Postcolonial Theory, it relates to the enormous impact that colonialist regimes have had on the countries they once governed. It is true, for example, that great swathes of Africa and Asia have been ‘civilised’ to the […]

Trump’s Imperial Presidency?

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2025 … to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. – George Mason HORNBERGER’S BLOG January 23, 2025 Trump Deserves No Thanks for Pardoning Ross Ulbricht While there are libertarians praising and thanking President Trump for fulfilling […]