A unipolar world leaves all of us prey to Trump’s destabilizing gangsterism and a rapacious, destructive, U.S. corporate capitalism.
Jonathan Cook: 4 Observations on Maduro Kidnap
Tag: U.S. imperialism
White House Can’t Make Venezuela Attack Legal
Marjorie Cohn rebuts the efforts by the Trump administration — including the president’s claim that the U.S. owns Venezuela’s oil — to justify its illegal aggression.
Jonathan Cook: ‘Blood Libel’ Paradox & Israel’s Genocide
The more depraved Israel’s actions, the more antisemitic it is to point out the truth. This is win-win for colonialism, lose-lose for humanity.
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.
Trump Reboots Manifest Destiny
The U.S. president wants to return the world to 1900, when America was nakedly grabbing everything it could, writes William J. Astore.
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.
US-Led Military Exercises in Pacific Wreak Havoc
Hawaiian activists call on nations that condemn the genocide in Gaza to withdraw from the massive U.S.-organized RIMPAC military training illegally hosted on Hawaiian land.
Caitlin Johnstone: US Scrawls ‘Red Lines’ Over Globe
Washington views this entire planet as its territory. It believes it has a divinely bestowed right to issue decrees about what may and may not be done anywhere in the world.
Chris Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange
He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.