White Malice and the War on African Liberation

Prince Kapone Susan Williams’ archival excavation of CIA counterrevolution reveals how U.S. neocolonialism strangled Pan-African socialism—and why the same imperial logic governs the world today When Africa Tried to Unite and America Took It Personal Susan Williams opens White Malice in the middle of the night—in Accra, March 1957, when the Union Jack comes down and the…

Christian Zionism in the Global South: The Case of South Africa

Fathi Nimer Executive Summary Christian Zionism has become a key vehicle of Israeli influence across the Global South, and South Africa has emerged as a central battleground. Once rooted in nineteenth-century imperial theology, Christian Zionism today functions as a political project that seeks to legitimize Israeli colonialism through religious narratives. In South Africa—long a stronghold…

Fanon and National Liberation

Horace Campbell Women in the Algerian War of Independence with the flag. Transcript of Horace Campbell’s Talk on Fanon’s take on National Liberation, delivered at Dawson College, Montreal, 1991, explores linkages between individual and national liberation, resonating with the required conditions and persisting liberatory necessities across Global Africa 60 years after Fanon. Tonight, we want…

Manufacturing Helplessness: Jordan’s Buried Strength and the Power of Small Obstructions

Rima Najjar Muwaffaq Salti Air Base near Azraq, Jordan — a key Royal Jordanian Air Force installation hosting U.S. operations and joint security missions. 1. A Conversation on Hope and Silence After I shared From Futility to Friction, a friend in Jordan — Amal — messaged me on WhatsApp. Her words carried a mix of guarded…

Propped Up by Foreign Troops, Benin’s Regime Targets Opposition

Pavan Kulkarni Hundreds of Nigerian Special Forces soldiers conduct military training aimed at “preparing for contemporary security challenges” earlier this year. Now the Beninese foreign minister says around 200 soldiers from Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire have arrived to support security after the failed coup. Photo: X More than a week after a military intervention restored…

Chile: Pinochetism Returns to Power

Atilio Borón José A. Kast’s resounding victory in the runoff election is bound to have a profound influence on Chile. A solid, neo-fascist, extreme right-wing force consolidated as a result of the convergence of two radical variants of Pinochetism —one led by Kast and the other, even more extreme, by Johannes Kaiser— to which rushed…

Provisional Bondi Truths: Containment, Power, and the Struggle to Name Palestine on Wikipedia

Rima Najjar Introduction: Why Naming Never Ends The reasons why disputes on Israel/Palestine on Wikipedia don’t end are the same reasons the conflict itself endures without closure. You cannot pin the meaning down for long. As soon as language sharpens or clarity emerges, a procedural mechanism intervenes to pull it back into a more tightly constrained frame….

The Missing Voices of Western Sahara

Zahra Rahmouni At the UN’s annual Western Sahara debate, everyone gets heard except the Sahrawis themselves. Every year in October, sweater weather settles in, coffee orders are syrup-laden, and the United Nations building in New York transforms into a stage for tense deliberations over the renewal of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in…

Puerto Rico, US Imperialism and Venezuela’s Defiant Sovereignty: A Conversation with Déborah Berman Santana

Cira Pascual Marquina From the heart of the US colony, a geographer and activist explains that Washington’s “new” security strategy looks a great deal like the old one. As the United States reasserts its hemispheric priorities in its recent National Security Strategy document, Latin America and the Caribbean are once again cast as a zone…

Lebanon: The Quiet Collapse of Anti-Normalization Barriers

Ibrahim Al-Amine Israel’s assassination of resistance commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai has only confirmed that a year later, Hezbollah has absorbed losses that reach deep into its senior ranks. Militarily, the party adapted. Politically, however, a new front has opened inside Lebanon and constitutes a challenge on its own. Hezbollah is still avoiding any internal confrontation,…

An Islamic Monarchy for Syria: When Washington’s “Reformer” Starts Talking Like a Caliph

Kevork Almassian Ahmed al-Sharaa, aka Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), addresses a crowd at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Dec. 8, 2024. Photo by Aref Tammawi/AFP via Getty Images. As Washington blesses monarchies and Jolani echoes Baghdadi’s words from the Umayyad Mosque, Syria is being steered from broken republic to…

Who’s the Dictator – Venezuela’s Maduro or Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

Roger D. Harris Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro marches with youth from the country’s communes in Caracas. (Prensa Presidencial) Washington brands Nicolás Maduro a dictator, celebrates Volodymyr Zelenskyy as democratic, and sponsors María Corina Machado to achieve regime change in Venezuela rather than promote genuine democracy. Within the narrow spectrum of establishment punditry, “dictator” functions as…

Edward Alam: Christian Lebanese Anti-Zionism

Free Palestine TV Laith meets with Dr Edward Alam, Benedict XVI Endowed Chair of Religious, Cultural and Philosophical Studies at Notre Dame University in Lebanon. The two discuss Dr Alam’s upbringing in Utah as a second generation American Lebanese, his return to Lebanon in the late 80s during the “Civil War,” his efforts to educate…

The Far Right Triumphs in Chile

Pablo Meriguet Far-right ideologue José Antonio Kast. Photo: José Antonio Kast / X José Antonio Kast, who has promised historic tax cuts and a tougher immigration policy, will be Chile’s next president. Center-left candidate Jeanette Jara has conceded defeat. There was little doubt about the outcome of Chile’s second round presidential election on December 14….

‘We Should Determine Our Own Future’: Interview with Sudanese Communist Party

C.J. Atkins Salwa Saied speaks at the 41st Central Convention of the Communist Party of Canada, Dec. 6, 2025. Saied was an international guest representing the Sudanese Communist Party. People’s World spoke to her on the sidelines of the convention. | C.J. Atkins / People’s World MONTREAL—A brutal civil war is raging on the African…

Here We Go Again: The Bondi Beach Hanukkah Attack and the Machinery of Manufactured Meaning

Rima Najjar Introduction And there it is — the familiar dread. Another attack, this time a mass shooting targeting a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach; another instant narrative of antisemitic terrorism; another tightening in the chest that many of us now recognize on cue. Before the bodies were counted, the meaning was already assigned. On…

Legitimizing Genocide: The Israel-Trump Plan and Gaza’s Future

Inès Abdel Razek,Munir Nuseibah In the wake of the so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel has continued killing Palestinians, demolishing entire neighborhoods, and entrenching its control over the land. Meanwhile, the UNSC has officially endorsed US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza, effectively granting international legitimacy for perpetual Israeli-US occupation and laying the groundwork for…

The Tactic of Logistical Strangulation: Extraterritorial Seizures by the United States

Dr. Fernando Esteche Global context of the recent seizure of Venezuelan oil On December 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice executed a seizure warrant against the vessel “Skipper” in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. The indictment was based on previous 2022 sanctions against the vessel (when it sailed under the name “Adisa”)…

From Futility to Friction: How Targeted Disruption Weakens the Structures of Israeli Domination

Rima Najjar Introduction In my previous essay, The Settlers Are Not Leaving, I argued that Palestinian liberation cannot hinge on hopes of settler withdrawal, a sudden moral awakening among occupiers, or some negotiated coexistence. Zionist domination is a stable, externally reinforced system — bolstered by military superiority, intricate legal frameworks, deep economic ties, diplomatic shields, and the…

The Settlers Are Not Leaving: Decolonization, Not Coexistence

Rima Najjar Introduction In her recent Mondoweiss essay, Lara Kilani observes that when Western liberals or segments of the international left promote a “one-state solution,” they often imagine a future in which Palestinians and Israelis become co-citizens, sharing institutions, civil rights, and an aspirational harmony. But for many Palestinians — especially those experiencing siege, displacement, bombardment, land confiscation, and…

Syria’s Collapse: How Assad’s Fall Reshaped West Asia’s Strategic Balance

Mohammed Al Faraj One year after Syria’s government fell, the promised liberation has given way to dispossession. While Washington and Tel Aviv celebrate the dismantling of an independent military model and the severing of the Axis of Resistance, Syria’s people face massacres, economic strangulation, and a government more concerned with courting Israeli approval than building…

Breaking With the War Parties in Sudan

The Transnational Institute (TNI) People displaced by the war gather for a monthly food distribution in Adré. The two warring parties have been able to perpetuate the devastation in Sudan because they have been legitimised, especially by the international community. Peace will return when popular democracy and revolutionary politics, embedded in practices of the 2018…

Israel’s Battle With Society, Identity, and Memory

Ali Haidar It is not new for Israeli research centers to track Hezbollah’s ideology, capabilities, and strategic choices and place them at the top of their priorities. These institutions act as the analytical arm of decision-makers, and contribute in shaping the official establishment’s interpretation of the regional scene. Yet their output after the recent war…

Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf EP 40: Ali Jezzini “Chances of Full-Scale War in Lebanon”

Free Palestine TV Laith meets with Ali Jezzini, al-Mayadeen’s Military analyst, at the Agora Cafe outside Nabatieh, and they discuss the latest developments in the warfront with Lebanon, from the “ceasefire” mechanisms committee, to the coming end of the UNIFIL mandate, and the threats to a full Zionist war in the next few weeks. Bonus…

Hemispheric Fault Lines: Venezuela’s Resistance and Latin America’s Crossroads Between Sovereignty and Neocolonialism

Fiorella Isabel and Vanessa Beeley As Washington targets Latin America, with a Monroe Doctrine on steroids, LATAM Nations navigate coercion, alliances, and the quest for a possible yet increasingly difficult, post-hegemonic future. In this episode of Critical Perspectives, Vanessa and I discuss an on-the-ground report from journalist Diego Sequera, who reveals how Venezuelans, navigating Western media…

Venezuela Condemns US Tanker Seizure as ‘International Piracy’ as a Potential Oil Blockade Looms

José Luis Granados Ceja US troops descend from helicopters onto the “Skipper” tanker’s deck as part of an operation to seize the oil vessel. Caracas denounced the move as a breach of international law, as the US contemplates imposing an illegal naval blockade and US lawmakers question the administration’s shifting rationale. Mexico City, Mexico, December…

Tanzania: From the “Island of Peace” Myth to Massacre

Muhemsi Mwakihwelo Protests following disputed elections in Tanzania. Photo: Consolata Africa When the people rose up after Tanzania’s disrupted elections, they shattered a long-standing taboo: the belief that Tanzanians can only demonstrate at the state’s will. When Issa Shivji presented the case of Tanzania’s unfolding “silent class struggle” more than five decades ago, the political…

Saracinesco: Hidden Arab Village Outside Rome, Italy

Free Palestine TV Laith Marouf, Evan Katsounis & Rabih Ghannam travel to the village of Saracinesco just outside Rome, Italy, to discover the story of its inhabitants who were forced settled on this mountain top after forced conversion. The team discuss the six thousand year history of Italian relations with the Arabic peoples and their…

European Pacifists Reject Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Prize, Highlighting Her Warmongering Practices

Yuleidys Hernández Toledo Tomas Magnusson, director of Lay Down Your Arms, traveled by train on Monday, December 8, to Oslo, Norway, to participate in the conference entitled: The Norwegian Peace Movement Says No to the Norwegian Nobel Prize, which took place on Tuesday, December 9. When the Nobel Foundation announced on October 10 that it…

How the UN Betrayed the Decolonisation of Western Sahara

Ethan Woolf Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience On the 31st of October 2025, a fifty-year struggle for the self-determination of Western Sahara was quietly buried under UN Security Council Resolution 2797 (2025)….