Imperialism and War
What or who will #BringBackOurGirls?

What or who will #BringBackOurGirls?

#BringBackOurGirls has gone massively viral in the social media world, as people around the globe clamor for action to save hundreds of school-age girls abducted from their school in Nigeria. The girls were abducted by the group Boko Haram, a self-described Muslim...

The Legacy of the Grenadian Revolution Lives On

The Legacy of the Grenadian Revolution Lives On

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 a people who had known 400 years of transportation, slavery,...

Remembering Gen. Giap

Remembering Gen. Giap

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. He had been ailing and living in a military hospital for the last four years. Giap’s...

It was the CIA that helped jail Nelson Mandela

It was the CIA that helped jail Nelson Mandela

Today is Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, but forget the crocodile tears from the U.S. government about Mandela's poor health. Imperialist diplomacy with all of its sugar-coated phrases is nothing more than a form of historical perjury. Nelson Mandela’s arrest in 1962,...

Why North Korea is developing nuclear weapons

Why North Korea is developing nuclear weapons

This article was first published on the "what's left" blog on Feb. 16, 2013. It is re-published here with the author's permission. It has been slightly edited for style. Is North Korea’s recent nuclear test, its third, to be welcomed, lamented or condemned? It depends...