In the wake of the protests launched by the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the international movement to protest for the environment, against climate change and for governments to move in a ‘green’ direction has now reached global dimensions. Many young people have become aware of how important the environment is for the life of…
Category: COLONIALISM
Race in Black and White
Alexis L. Boylan Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art. “Matthew Fox-Amato’s Exposing Slavery is a valuable aid for thinking through the tangle of issues around race, sight, power, and bodies.” Review: Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in…
IIRSA Project and the Amazon as an Obstacle to the Looting of Latin America
Alejo Brignole The recent apocalyptic event of the Amazon forest fire must be seen not only from an environmental perspective of profound significance and terrible consequences for humanity, but also from the global strategic prism. We all know that the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) tariff and legal integration project was defeated at…
The Amazon’s Neocolonial Problem
Daniel Hunt There is a left argument for Brazilian sovereignty that should never need to be made. The 2019 G7 summit in Biarritz unnecessarily handed Brazil’s Neofascist Bolsonaro a propaganda coup with which to rally his dwindling support. With his approval falling to record lows and facing international attacks of unprecedented intensity, their colonial-sounding rhetoric…
The G-7 Exploits Fires to Attempt Internationalization of the Amazon
Aram Aharonian The ferocious fires that have devastated almost half a million hectares of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil also ignited the meeting of the Group of Seven in France and scorched and left in critical condition the free trade agreement signed recently between the European Union and Mercosur. Paradoxically, the surrender of the neoliberal…
Ancient Eugenicists
Zanga Chimombo Ancient Egyptians were not Asians, nor aliens. “Genocide might indeed be a worse demon of our nature.” When black civilisation was destroyed first time round there was little to show for its former glories apart from squat noses and thick lips on statues and other artworks that invading lighter folks successively reduced. After…
Guatemala: What We Indians Keep Quiet About
Ollantay Itzamná Rabin Ajaw 2019/2010. Internet With the advent of postmodernity, the “elements” of indigenous identities were used, both by the rulers of the creole states and by the business agents of the neoliberal system, as “amulets” to distract and deactivate the historic resistance of indigenous peoples. As never before, ceremonial performances such as Inti…
The Resistance of Honduras Against the Neocolonial Regime
Prensa CRBZ Honduras is experiencing a continuation of the coup d’état that overthrew President Zelaya in 2009. The authoritarian regime that oppresses the country is characterized by extractivism, electoral fraud, assassination, militarization, drug trafficking and militarism. At the same time, the people resist on the basis of their capacity for struggle and the ideas, the…
Frantz Fanon: Decolonize Your Digital-Mind
Lizzie O’Shea Frantz Fanon, the writer and psychiatrist born in the French colony of Martinique, is perhaps best known for his contribution to our understanding of race and colonialism. He produced a powerful and nuanced body of work before his death in 1961, centered on his experiences and reflections upon racism. His writings grappled with…
How Evangelical Christians Risk Setting the Middle East on Fire
Jonathan Cook The recent arrival of Africa’s most popular televangelist preacher, TB Joshua, to address thousands of foreign pilgrims in Nazareth produced a mix of consternation and anger in the city of Jesus’s childhood. There was widespread opposition from Nazareth’s political movements, as well as from community groups and church leaders, who called for a…
The Promised Land
Tony NorfieldPalestine really was the Promised Land. So much so that it was promised to three different groups within a couple of years.(1) The promises were made by British imperialism, a real world power, not by an imaginary deity in a book of very dubious provenance. What made the promises remarkable was that they were…
“Who’s Land?” The Trials and Tribulations of Territorial Acknowledgement
Rowland “Ena͞emaehkiw” Keshena Robinson During the autumn of 2016, in October, my sister and I, both of us Indigenous Ph.D. students in philosophy and sociology respectively, attended a conference held at St. Paul’s University College, an affiliate of the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, entitled Decolonizing Education/Integrating Knowledges. The summit was part of a broader…
