While Simon Bolivar has been right for 200 years, the U.S. is not doomed: it can and must stop exploiting, impoverishing and killing its neighbors, writes Medea Benjamin.
Plaguing the Americas With Misery in the Name of Liberty
Category: Indigenous People
Vijay Prashad: ‘Vietnam in the Field of Culture’
When imperialism turns knowledge, technology and art into instruments of submission, radical traditions teach another lesson.
Vijay Prashad: The Roots of Capitalism
Steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The Last Empire’
Abby Martin joins CN Live! to discuss her newest film, The Earth’s Greatest Enemy, about U.S. militarism, empire and environmental destruction.Watch the replay.
WATCH: Abby Martin on Standing Up to Monsters
The director of the documentary Earth’s Greatest Enemy, about U.S. empire, militarism and environmental destruction, says we aren’t angry enough.
The Myth of a ‘Joint’ Pine Gap
While Washington sets the priorities and commands decision-making, Australian operational staff at the base are outnumbered by Australian “guards and gardeners,” writes Peter Cronau.
Protestors Want Pine Gap Closed
Pine Gap is a garrison outpost dominated by the U.S. imperium that defiles sacred native land and aids Israel in its cleansing conflict against Palestinians, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Two and a Half Centuries of War – A Timeline
A list of the wars of the United States in a blood-soaked quarter of a millenium as the nation marked 250 years of independence, domestic suppression and homage to militarism.
JOE LAURIA: Mutual Aid or Mutual Assured Destruction
WATCH: Cooperation is more important than competition in human survival, argued Peter Kropotkin. After competition brought two world wars, mutual aid twice sought to rescue humanity. Will there be a third chance?
Vijay Prashad: The Necessary Future
Dark forces seek to colonise the future to ensure it remains subordinate to accumulation, not dignity. Talk of the future is not utopian fantasy but affirmation that the current order is intolerable and impermanent.