Imperialism and War

Africa Under Fire

What’s behind Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria?

Eugene Puryear

January 16, 2015

While this most recent tragedy did not gain the wattage of the killings at Charlie Hebdo, it does fit into the same narrative of "Islamic" insurgency presenting an existential threat to all people in Western ...

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The State Department oversees USAID counterrevolutionary programs.

Exposed: Three USAID plots to destabilize Cuba

Estevan Hernandez and Walter Smolarek

December 29, 2014

1) ZunZuneo Ever since the people’s victory in 1959, U.S. imperialism has made it a top priority to overthrow the Cuban Revolution and bring back the old elite. The recently-exposed ZunZuneo scandal, the so-called Cuban ...

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Economics of Capitalism

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation visitor center, Seattle, Wa.

The real agenda of the Gates Foundation

Jacob Levich

November 2, 2014

In 2009 the self-designated “Good Club” – a gathering of the world’s wealthiest people whose collective net worth then totaled some $125 billion – met behind closed doors in New York City to discuss a ...

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Women react during a protest demanding security forces to search harder for 200 abducted schoolgirls, outside Nigeria's parliament in Abuja

What or who will #BringBackOurGirls?

Eugene Puryear

May 6, 2014

Like many of the humanitarian crises in Africa that have become international campaigns, this situation has significant roots which Western military intervention cannot solve and will only exacerbate.

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The Legacy of the Grenadian Revolution Lives On

Carlos Martinez

March 13, 2014

The following article is republished from Invent the Future with the permission of the author. “The Grenada Revolution was a grasp of joy … that life unfulfilled could and would change, be transformed for ...

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Imperialism, the Islamic State and the Policy of Endless War

Brian Becker

February 19, 2014

Why we are marching in Washington, D.C., on Saturday March 21, 2015, to say NO to authorization for new war in Iraq and Syria On Saturday, March 21 the ANSWER Coalition is taking a lead ...

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Africa Under Fire

Left to right: Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo

Nelson Mandela: Armed struggle and communism in the fight for ...

Eugene Puryear

December 6, 2013

Nelson Mandela, longtime leader of the African National Congress, and first Black president of South Africa, died quietly in his home December 5, after a long battle with illness. Mandela became the world’s best-known political ...

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Remembering Gen. Giap

Jack Smith

October 12, 2013

Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap who helped defeat Japan, then France, then the United States in a 35-year war for national independence, died in Hanoi on Oct. 4 at the age of 102.

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Nelson Mandela, activist against Apartheid, here in his youth c. 1950

It was the CIA that helped jail Nelson Mandela

Brian Becker

July 18, 2013

Today is Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, but forget the crocodile tears from the U.S. government about his poor health. Imperialist diplomacy with all of its sugar-coated phrases is nothing more than a form of historical ...

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