Western Capitalism’s Historic Crisis as People Realize There’s Actually Socialist Alternative

Finian Cunningham Western capitalism and its supposed democracy are in terminal crisis as increasing numbers of people reject the system’s abysmal economic failure: record levels of poverty, inequality and relentless militarism and warmongering. Professor Jodi Dean, the author of The Communist Horizon (Verso), says we are living in a rare historic situation of social, economic…

Foreign Devils on the Road to Afghanistan

M. K. Bhadrakumar UN Security Council held a meeting on women and peace and security at UN Headquarters, New York, March 7, 2023 On March 7, the western powers huddled together in Paris for a restricted meeting on Taliban and the Afghanistan situation. It was an exclusive meeting of the Special Representatives and Envoys for…

If You Wouldn’t Ask Hannibal Lecter to Stop Mass Atrocities, Don’t Ask “the International Community”

Ann Garrison The hope that the U.S. will intervene anywhere in the world for humanitarian reasons is misguided in the extreme. Claims of concern are always a ruse hiding ulterior motives. Imperialist actions are antithetical to human needs. As someone who spends a lot of time studying African conflict, I often witness and find myself drawn into…

UN Envoy Admits Fabricating Claim of Viagra-Fueled Rape as ‘Russian Military Strategy’

Alexander Rubinstein UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its “military strategy” in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war. In a November 10 call with…

Neo-Colonialism, International Finance Capital and the Necessity of Pan-African Sovereignty

Abayomi Azikiwe Sudan Women And The Democracy Movement African Union member-states are facing a critical conjuncture as the looming threats of global conflict against imperialism threatens world peace Note: These remarks were prepared and delivered in part to a webinar entitled “AFRICOM, Corporate Dominance, Neo-Colonialism: How Do People Assert Their Humanity and Choices.” The event…

Demonstrations in Support of Recent Coup in Burkina Faso Highlighted Solidarity with Russia

Abayomi Azikiwe Protesters Hold Pro-Russian Rally in Burkina Faso After Military Takeover Lessons for the Peace and Antiwar Groupings within the Imperialist States West African state witnessed youth-led attacks on French embassy and installations amid security challenges There have been two military coups in the West African state of Burkina Faso since January as attacks…

NATO: Dead Hand vs. Dead Brain

Davor Slobodanovich Vuyachich NATO is a brainless monster that wastes human lives with the same ease with which it wastes the taxpayer funds of the member states of that infamous military alliance. In November 2019, French President Macron warned his European allies that NATO was in a state of brain death. Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign…

Hashtag Activism and US Imperialism

 Erica Caines A protestor wears glasses with a hashtag being used to protest the death of Mahsa Amini at a rally in support of the people of Iran and against the Iranian government at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco. The abundance of “hashtag activism” has created a false sense of importance for the everyday…

President Gustavo Petro at the UN: A Damning Indictment of the US Empire and the United Nations

What follows is a transcription of the speech given by President of Colombia Gustavo Petro in General Debate of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 20, 2022. I come from one of the three most beautiful countries on earth. There is an explosion of life there. Thousands of multicolored species from…

How Canada Created the R2P Doctrine, with Myanmar as its Next Potential Victim

Daniel Xie Opposition supporters demand the implementation of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine in Myanmar. (Credit: Twitter) On September 21, 2021, Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG), a government-in-exile formed by supporters of former state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi declared a “people’s defensive war” against the Tatmadaw (another name for the armed forces of Myanmar)….

Amnesty International Completes Discrediting Itself by Calling for an Audit of its Report on Ukrainian War Crimes

Christelle Néant Image: Amnesty International | Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians On 4 August 2022, Amnesty International published a report denouncing the tactics of the Ukrainian army that endangered civilians, in other words, Ukrainian war crimes (even if AI does not dare to call a spade a spade). Ten days later, the organisation retrogrades…

Why is Amnesty International Finally Reporting on Kiev’s War Crimes Months Later?

Amnesty International has a long track record of selling lies to the public to help justify US military aggression both direct and by proxy all under the guise of “human rights” advocacy. Often when it is too late to reverse the damage done, Amnesty puts distance between itself and its lies to prepare for the…

How US Spread Biological ‘Poison’, Ethnic Division and Ideological Antagonism Around the World

Zhang Mengxu Poison disseminator Illustration: Xu Zihe/GT GT Editor’s Note: Since the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine began, the international community has grown increasingly aware of the roles the US and NATO have played behind the crisis. From funding biological labs to creating ethnic division and ideological confrontation around the world, from imposing sanctions…

Ukraine: Why Black People Must Oppose USA Imperialism & Aggression!

Please join us for this extremely important episode as were joined by veteran organizer and activist, Ajamu Baraka, to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Ukraine: Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective For African and Colonized Peoples, to Understand Ukraine: De-center Europe and Focus on Imperialism The Black Radical Position on the Situation in…

NATO and Africa: A Relationship of Colonial Violence and Structural White Supremacy

Djibo Sobukwe French Military Bases in Africa NATO is the means of continuing colonial aggressions against African countries. Considering the public media attention and concern about possible expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it is worth reminding people about NATO’s bloody history in Africa. NATO was founded in 1949 after WWII at a…

Covid-19 and Democracy – Nicaragua v Canada

Stephen Sefton Nicaragua 2018 – police officer Gabriel de Jesús Vado Ruiz, tortured, murdered and set on fire by opposition thugs in Masaya in 2018 (Photo from opposition social media video) From 2018 onwards, Canada’s government has denounced Nicaragua in international forums as a repressive dictatorship and followed the US authorities in imposing illegal unilateral…

The Jakarta Method: The Project to Preserve Capitalism Through Terror

Rainer Shea  Late-stage capitalism began when capitalism ceased to be a revolutionary force, and started being a reactionary one. By the middle of the 19th century, when the bourgeoisie had overthrown feudalism throughout most of the globe, their new system became a force for regression, something that still existed not because of progress but despite…

Narrative and Reality of the Libyan Crisis

Manlio Dinucci The most remarkable thing about the NATO-led operation in Libya is the difference between what the West and the Libyans perceived. For the former, it was the liberation of a People crushed by a dictatorship, while for the latter, it was a foreign invasion that destroyed everything in its path and sent the…