Review of Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire

Hugo Turner Doug Valentine’s new book “Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire” takes the reader on a voyage into the dark and hidden history of the world. It forces the reader to confront the horrors unleashed by the American empire. It is a memoir that reads like a great novel, you won’t be able…

Georgi Dimitrov’s ‘‘United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism and War’’ and its Value for Our Moment

Turner Roth Introduction In a period of increasing tensions, where world powers, caught in the systemic compulsions of our contemporary capitalism dominated by the United States axis, draw closer to forms of world-historical conflict, a third world war being that thing which may if it comes to pass seal the fate of the human species…

Professor Kees van der Pijl: « NATO and the EU Will Dissolve! »

Mohsen Abdelmoumen Dutch professor Kees van der Pijl. D. R. How can we organise a global resistance to the criminal capitalist system and the devastating imperialism that has ravaged entire countries? Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You wrote the book translated into French: « Pandémie de la peur: projet totalitaire ou révolution? » (Pandemic of fear: totalitarian project or revolution?). In…

Marginal Benefits & the Functionalism of Conflict in Africa: Case Studies of State Responses to Pan-African Political Leaders

 DaQuan Lawrence Deposed Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, hands manacled, sits in the bed of an army truck under guard of Congolese soldiers after his arrival at Leopoldville (Kinshasa) airport, Dec. 2, 1960, one day after his arrest by troops loyal to Col. Joseph Mobutu. Lumumba was executed the following month. This is believed to…

China Takes a Leadership Role in Central Asia

M. K. BhadrakumarThe First China-Central Asia Summit took place in the Chinese city of Xi’an, hosted by President Xi Jinping, May 18-19, 2023 One of the pleasures of the post-Cold War strategic discourses is that geopolitics is back with a bang. Earlier, the former Soviet Union and Communist China used to be in denial mode,…

U.S. Empire: Most Murderous Killing Machine in History

Jeremy Kuzmarov New study finds U.S. responsible for nearly 300 million deaths—and counting In September, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation—established by a bipartisan act of Congress in 1993—opened the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., which aims to spotlight the plight of the alleged 100 million victims of Communist ideology. The 100 million figure was…

Our Struggle for Reparations: Recognitions, Apologies and Other Stories

Sungu Oyoo Prisoners from the Herero and Nama tribes during the 1904-1908 war against Germany. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository In this phase of the struggle for reparations, our generation is unapologetically pointing out historical facts and demanding reparative justice. At a future date, African people will again demand for reparations relating to…

Water Wars: Drought, Disputes, and Deadly Skirmishes Between Iran and the Taliban

F.M. Shakil Recent border clashes have escalated tensions to a critical point between the Islamic Republic and the Taliban over Iran’s unfulfilled water rights. Do the Taliban have a deeper motive, and what are their demands? Long spells of drought in Afghanistan and southeastern Iran have reignited a decades-old dispute between the two countries over the…

G7 Countries in Search of An Alternative to China’s One Belt, One Road Megaproject

Alexandr Svaranc As a result of the latest summit of the G7 countries in Hiroshima, the US, Canada, the UK and the EU adopted yet another, 11th to be precise, package of anti-Russian sanctions. The package includes more than 90 companies from all over the world, which, according to Brussels, allegedly violated the restrictive measures…

Russiagates Missing Pieces: What Was Not Said in the Durham Report?

Seymour Hersh Special Counsel John Durham in 2022. / Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images. The first thing to understand about John Durham is that he was a fearless prosecutor who went after organized crime and put in prison retired and active FBI agents who protected the mob for money or other enticements. One of the…

Government by CSIS

Aidan Jonah Left: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Right: A sign for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Canada’s political elites and mainstream media are in the pocket of CSIS, now the lead servant of Canadian capital. The Canadian people will suffer dearly for this. NDP Member of Parliament (MP) Jenny Kwan is the latest…

30 Years Later, Justice for Forced Sterilization Cases During Fujimori Dictatorship?

Clau O’Brien Moscoso Protest against forced sterilizations in Peru (Photo: Iván Vicente) The Fujimori regime forcibly sterilized thousands of people in Peru and the victims are still fighting for justice. National Strike, Day 147 After almost six months of a coup regime that has murdered over 80 people during continuous protests against the illegal ouster of…

Sudan: War Has Arrived

Reem Abbas “Dad and Anda.” Courtesy Reem Abbas © 2023. The bullet which triggered the start of the war was fired close to our home. On a morning during Ramadan, I was on holiday. In two days I would be starting a new job, and I was taking the opportunity to sleep in late that…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Sheepdogging and Liberal Fantasy

Margaret Kimberley Image: Twitter @RobertKennedyJr There is an understandable yearning for a progressive president. But like dreams of happily ever after endings, the fantasy is just that. In 2015, Black Agenda Report co-founder Bruce Dixon coined the term “sheepdog” to describe the role that Bernie Sanders would play in the 2016 presidential campaign. Dixon presciently said, “Bernie’s…

Proletarian Political Revolution: Myth and Reality

Workers League An essential element of the lexicon of Orthodox Trotskyism is the concept of the proletarian political revolution. From 1933, Russian revolutionary leader LD Trotsky (co-leader with VI Lenin of the October Revolution of 1917) and his supporters called for a proletarian political revolution in the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), after conservative…

Fighting for the Russian World and All Humanity

Gennady Zyuganov The crisis of the liberal model of running the world was inevitable. I warned of its results and alarming challenges that would fill the new century twenty years ago. My book “Globalization and the Destiny of Humankind” which was published at the time has been translated into many languages. It provided a detailed…

Ukraine: The Moment of Truth – The West Refuses Peace

Thiery Meyssan You don’t know his face. But Li Hui is one of China’s most important diplomats. It was he who came to propose peace in Ukraine to the West. He was kindly received, but nobody listened to him. On behalf of China, Li Hui came to propose that the West make peace in Ukraine…

Ukraine: The Moment of Truth

Theiry Meyssan President Zelensky arrives in Japan on May 20, 2023, for the G7 summit. Since February 24, 2022, the eyes of the world have been on the Ukrainian conflict. The West is supporting Kiev financially, delivering incredible quantities of arms and ammunition, but is careful not to get directly involved in the theater of…