Stephen Sefton Ever since at least the Iraq War of 2003, the fundamental alternatives facing North American and European elites have been constant. One alternative might have been to accept a certain loss of global power so as to share global influence peacefully in a multi-polar world with China, Russia and other regional powers. Instead,…
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The History of US and British Support to Mussolini’s Fascism
Shane Quinn Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler stand together on an reviewing stand during Mussolini’s official visit in Munich. | Credit:: Wikimedia Commons A figure like Benito Mussolini could only have taken power in a nation plagued by severe illness. Italy, a resource poor state, had been virtually bankrupted by expenditure in World War One,…
Iran’s 1979 Revolution: A Brief History
Steve Lalla Iran’s Revolution is generally understood to have begun on January 7, 1978, and continued until the Shah fled the country on January 16, 1979. The revolution was brewing for decades though — or for millennia, as some argue: the Shahs had ruled Persia, more or less, for well over two thousand years. Let’s…
On the Critical Predation of China
Qiao Collective The Western left has largely fallen in line behind interventionist platitudes of “standing with the Chinese people, not the Chinese government.” But their cover of “principled critique” elides the fact that criticism does not exist in a vacuum. In this case, it is greasing the wheels for Western imperialist intervention under the auspices…
Regarding the European Union’s Communiqué on Venezuela
The recent communiqué of the European Union (EU) on Venezuela must be viewed with a critical eye, since its central feature is ambiguity, ambivalence, with no notable shift in the position that the EU has been taking in relation to our country. To begin with, the communiqué ignores the 6D elections, they detract from its…
Pandemic Reveals Crisis of US Imperialism
“I think what we are looking at is a severely wounded, crippled US imperialism as the chief hegemon of world capitalism,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. The coronavirus epidemic “brought the crisis of this economy into bold relief,” said Yeshitela, while China continued its…
Our Conditions are Going to Get Far More Brutal. Will You Be Prepared to Survive Them?
Rainer Shea In the world that late-stage capitalism is leading us towards, lower class people, especially ones who’ve set themselves up against the capitalist state and the forces of imperialism, will be fighting a war for our survival. But through this war we can find vitality. We can forge a path that goes against the…
Belarus on the Edge: Biden’s First Move?
Carl Boggs Photo Source Capt. Gage Skidmore – CC BY 2.0 The ascent of Joe Biden and his neocon “promoters of democracy” to the White House likely means renewed attention to the idea of Color Revolutions once thought to bring liberation to nations under the heel of dictators. First in line for this latest geopolitical…
The Éminence Grise of Third Positionism: The Neofascist Ideologue Gabriele Adinolfi
FOIA Research [This is the first part of a three part series that intends to shed light on Third Positionism, a far-right ideology that has given birth to a whole cluster of neofascist and neo-Nazi groups in Europe. Current-day Third Positionism continues to be strongly influenced by the neofascist ideologue Gabriele Adinolfi, whose activities will…
US Vetoes UN Resolution Condemning Nazis, Labels it “Russian Disinformation”
Alan Macleod The United States and Ukraine were the only two nations to vote against a United Nations resolution Wednesday on, “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.” The resolution passed 130-2. The resolution featured 70 fairly bland statements condemning…
US, Ukraine Vote Against Anti-Nazi Resolution Proposed by Russia at UN General Assembly
A Russian resolution condemning the “glorification of Nazism” was passed by the UN General Assembly, on Wednesday, with overwhelming support, though, remarkably. both the US and Ukraine made a point of voting against the motion Equally noteworthy was the fact that all delegations from European Union member states, including Germany, abstained from the vote, with…
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: Revision of World War II History
Some Western media continue posting materials that call for rethinking, or rather revising the history of World War II. A vivid example is the recent story aired by the Swiss radio station SRF 4 News, which criticised the Russian Investigative Committee’s investigation into the Nazi genocide of Stalingrad civilians in 1942 ̵1943. The Swiss journalists…
