Mark Curtis says Nigel Farage and the Conservatives are having a meltdown about Britain “giving up sovereignty” of illegally occupied land.
The Chagos Islands Were Never Britain’s to Give Away
Tag: neocolonialism
Patrick Lawrence: All the Gloves Come Off on Gaza
At this fraught moment, Americans cannot use Trump to hide from themselves, as many of them, especially their purported leaders, are very prone to doing.
Vijay Prashad: ‘Dreams Are Wearing Thin’
Hundreds of millions of people from the Americas to China have been killed or subdued so a small part of the world — the North Atlantic — could enrich itself. That is madness.
Vijay Prashad: The Eighth Continent of Sleaze
The Global North and its corporate executives have wielded the concept of “corruption” against the Global South, whose social wealth it injects into the Continent of Sleaze.
The UN & War in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies highlight a few of the numerous speeches urging diplomatic resolution of the war at this year’s General Assembly.
When Thatcher Met Mandela
As soon as Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years, in still apartheid South Africa, U.K. officials lobbied him for business interests, declassified files show, reports Mark Curtis.
SCOTT RITTER: A ‘Dangerous, Bloody & Dirty Game’
Vladimir Putin’s address at the Valdai Club last week, coming on the heels of the Biden administration’s release of its National Security Strategy, shows how the battle lines have been drawn.
The Geopolitics of Inequality
The geopolitics of inequality persist, writes Vijay Prashad, even though industrial production has moved from the Global North to the Global South.
The Oligarchic Empire Is Actually Easy to Understand
A globe-spanning power structure loosely centralized around the U.S. orchestrates murder at mass scale to ensure perpetual domination. Caitlin Johnstone says it’s that simple.
The British Cabal Behind a Gulf Dictatorship
Senior figures in the British establishment have secretly served as “privy councillors” to a highly repressive dictatorship in the Gulf state of Oman, Phil Miller reports.