Like the British establishment of the 1950s, current leaders of U.S. foreign policy have been on top of the world for so long that they’ve forgotten how they got there, writes Alfred W. McCoy.
Washington’s Delusion of Endless World Dominion
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
Into the Memory Hole
Erasure or sublimation of memory makes it easier to shape the present by controlling or editing history. Doing so preserves a mythic version of a country’s identity, postulates Michael Brenner.
The Crucial Amazon Union Vote in Alabama
Unions don’t just raise worker wages, says Sam Pizzagati. They also help flatten grand plutocratic fortunes.
The Right to Live in Peace
It is a phrase for effectively challenging the system now managed by people such as Biden, Modi and Piñera, writes Vijay Prashad.
MLK & Fred Hampton Versus J Edgar Hoover
James DiEugenio tracks the FBI boss and his renegade violence against any sign of a Black Messiah through two current films.
Lawmaker Rips US Opposition to ICC Probe of Israel
Rashida Tlaib said the international court has a duty to investigate and deliver justice to victims of human rights violations and war crimes in Palestine.
What Mourning the Fragility of US Democracy Gets Wrong
Despite the tradition of presenting itself as exceptional, the country looks a lot like the other struggling democracies, writes Alasdair S. Roberts.
The Filibuster Was Grounded in Slavery & Now Threatens All Life
Today it’s a convenient shield for cowardly senators to avoid going on the record about their opposition to popular legislation, writes Thom Hartmann.
Millionaires Have Already Stopped Paying 2021 Social Security
Using Das Kapital as a Pillow
Many Marxists in colonized zones had never read Marx, writes Vijay Prashad in this sampling of influential leftists, many from peasant societies, who built theories appropriate to their own context.