James Petras One of the most striking world historic advances of western imperialism (in the US and the European Union) is the demise, disappearance and dissolution of large scale long-term anti-imperialist and anti-interventionist movements (AIM). One of the major reasons for the debacle is the unwillingness or incapacity of AIM to confront electoral imperial elites…
Category: INTERVENTIONISM
Commandos Sans Frontières: The Global Growth of US Special Operations Forces
Nick Turse Early last month, at a tiny military post near the tumbledown town of Jamaame in Somalia, small arms fire began to ring out as mortar shells crashed down. When the attack was over, one Somali soldier had been wounded — and had that been the extent of the casualties, you undoubtedly would never…
Academics in the Service of Empire
James Petras Internationalist 360° Introduction Over the past half-century, I have been engaged in research, lectured and worked with social movements and leftist governments in Latin America. I interviewed US officials and think tanks in Washington and New York. I have written scores of books, hundreds of professional articles and presented numerous papers at professional…
From the End of History to the End of Truth
Tortilla Con Sal Making nonsense of Fukuyama’s premature triumphalist screed, it is commonplace now to note that the United States corporate elites and their European and Pacific country counterparts are increasingly losing power and influence around the world. Equally common is the observation that these Western elites and the politicians who front for them have…
Amnesty International – Weaponizing Hypocrisy for the US and NATO
Tortilla con Sal Over the last year, in Latin America, Amnesty International have taken their collusion in support of NATO government foreign policy down to new depths of falsehood and bad faith attacking Venezuela and, most recently, Nicaragua. The multi-million dollar Western NGO claims, “We are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or…
Global False Witness – Targeting Nicaragua
Tortilla con Sal Global Witness is a well-established environmental and human rights non-governmental organization based in Britain. As with many other similar organizations, its reports often figure in news media as authoritative sources on international issues. Ever since the 1980s and, increasingly so, after the turn of the century, the status of NGOs as trustworthy…
Propaganda: How Neocolonial Progressives Support Western Imperialism
Across the region, the legitimate struggles of indigenous peoples are being coopted by Western NGOs and media to serve the psychological warfare offensive of the US government and its allies against progressive governments in Latin America. Tortilla con Sal Almost all Western reporting of foreign news constitutes a permanent drip-feed of poisonous disinformation accumulating into…
US Subversion Against Cuba Continues
Even while the ink of Barack Obama’s new Presidential Directive on Cuba is not yet dry, an announcement for new subversive projects against Cuba was published on the U.S. State Department website Funding announcement posted on U.S. State Department website. Photo: http://www.state.gov/j/drl/p/263310.htm Sergio Alejandro Gómez | internet@granma.cu If you mix the same ingredients an equal…
Canada’s Role in the Assassination of Patrice Lumumba
By Yves Engler 56 years ago today the United Nations launched a peacekeeping force that contributed to one of the worst post-independence imperial crimes in Africa. The Organisation des Nations Unies au Congo (ONUC) delivered a major blow to Congolese aspirations by undermining elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Canada played a significant role in ONUC…
The Centrality of Africa in the Class Struggle to Come
Danny Haiphong Africa – it’s natural resources and the labor of its people – built the economies of the West, which has no intention of leaving. The West drains Africa of hundreds of billions each year, while strangling its nations in debt. The U.S. military occupies much of the continent. “The movement against racism and…
The Coup d’etat by the OAS
By Luis Britto Garcia Cuba-Network in Defense of Humanity Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino López declared that there is a coup in progress. Must the reader be reminded that since its foundation in 1948 the Organization of American States has given legitimacy to interventions by the United States that include in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Dominican Republic,…
The International Criminal Court – A Mechanism for Criminalising Opposition to Foreign Intervention in Africa
Stop Foreign Intervention in Africa The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established on 17 July 1998 when 120 states adopted the Rome Statute which is the legal basis of this organisation. The court, which is based in The Hague, Netherlands, should not be confused with the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The latter is part…
