After being plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt and forced underdevelopment.
Vijay Prashad: How the IMF Underdevelops Africa
Category: Colonialism
The Empire Never Died
Challenging the numerous insidious aspects of current U.K. foreign policy amounts to nothing less than truly ending the British Empire, writes Mark Curtis.
Chris Hedges: The New Dark Age
The Nazis are scapegoats for a Western heritage of mass slaughter, as if genocides in the Americas, Africa and India are mere historical footnotes. In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination.
Burkina Faso’s 37-Year Old Leader Draws US Ire
Ibrahim Traoré took power in a military coup in September 2022 and since then he has been drawing criticism from Western governments, not least the U.S., writes Alan MacLeod.
Exterminating Israel’s Helots
Palestinians are today’s Helots to Israel’s Sparta, condemned to be trampled on. When the response to genocide is more genocide, you are what you claim to be against. Exterminating children as the world looks on results, writes John Wight.
Jonathan Cook: Shilling for Israel’s Genocide
These shills are as morally culpable as the court historians who in 1930s Germany denounced those who opposed the extermination of Jews, Romanies, Communists, the disabled and gays as anti-Aryan racists. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Anyone who at this point…
Trade Wars: The Decline of America
Instead of judiciously adapting to America’s relative decline by carving out a new place for itself in the emerging multipolar world, U.S. leaders have pursued the fantasy of endless dominance, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
Vijay Prashad: Pan-African Revolutionaries
From Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa there is a rich tradition of female writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike.
Chris Hedges: Reinforcing the Lies of US History
Lust for conquest and wealth — behind the enslavement of Africans and the Native American genocide — is sidelined to tell the story of the valiant struggle by European pioneers to build the greatest nation on earth.
A People’s History of Palestine
People’s history is an urgent necessity for Palestine, where it is vital to communicate the empowered voices of the people to the rest of the world, writes Ramzy Baroud.