Imperialism and global politics

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Imperialism and global politics

United People’s State of the Philippines Address in Washington D.C. defies Duterte and Secret Service

August 16, 2019 Bayani
There is a rumor that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte “doesn’t do mornings.” This must be why he schedules all his press releases for the afternoon and keeps his staff in meetings until the wee hours […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Roots of the crisis over Kashmir

August 9, 2019 Fred Goldstein
Colonial rule, class and national oppression First published June 20, 2002 U.S. and British imperialism are working overtime to utilize the present crisis between India and Pakistan to their own advantage. Meanwhile, the reactionary regimes […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated

August 6, 2019 Stephen Millies
Barack Obama visited Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. Obama’s visit to the Japanese city revived the question of whether killing hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Washington’s long war in the “Middle East”: It’s not the oil, it’s the money

August 5, 2019 Bill Dores
“Only Iran-U.S. tensions supporting crude oil prices; outlook bearish” Economic Times, July 23, 2019 U.S. warships are not prowling the coast of Iran to protect navigation and the free flow of oil. That’s a lie. […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Imperialism and Sudan, Part 3: The true architects of terror and poverty

July 25, 2019 John Parker
In 1999, the European Sudanese Public Affairs Council published an article by David Hoile entitled “Farce Majeure: The Clinton Administration’s Sudan Policy 1993-2000.” This is a thorough documentation of the contradictory policies of President Bill […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Imperialism and Sudan Part 2: Roots of Sudan’s economic woes

July 16, 2019 John Parker
Most timelines of today’s crisis in Sudan start with rapid price increases for wheat and fuel under President Omar al-Bashir beginning in 2018. It is, however, important to take a look at what other forces […]
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Imperialism and global politics

ILPS International Assembly calls for unity against imperialism

July 15, 2019 Bill Dores
Hong Kong It was a global gathering of fighters for labor and the oppressed: workers on sugar cane plantations and in textile mills, domestic workers and dockworkers, Indigenous people, peasants and urban poor, fighters for […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Imperialism and Sudan, Part 1: What is the U.S. role in Sudan’s crisis?

July 8, 2019 John Parker
On Aug. 20, 1998, then-U.S. President Bill Clinton bombed the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant in Sudan with 16 cruise missiles. I was part of a delegation, headed by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, that […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Struggle-La Lucha statement: No to U.S. war on Iran!

July 3, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
End U.S. sanctions from Iran to Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe and People’s Korea Stop the war on workers from Iran to the world’s im/migrants and refugees “I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Falling oil profits drive U.S. war threats against Iran

June 21, 2019 Bill Dores
“I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. … We had entire training courses.” That’s what Trump regime Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told students at Texas A&M University on April 15. […]