Imperialism

‘Socialism” Conference Features US Gov-funded Regime Change Activists

July 7, 2019 Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone Project. Educate! Imperialism, NED, nonprofit industrial complex, Socialism

Socialism is now apparently brought to you by the US State Department. From July 4 to 7, thousands of left-wing activists from across the United States are gathering in Chicago for the 2019 Socialism Conference. At this event, some of the most powerful institutions on the American socialist — but avowedly anti-communist — left have brought together a motley crew of regime-change activists to demonize Official Enemies of Washington. One anti-China panel at the conference features speakers from two different organizations that are both bankrolled by the US government’s soft-power arm the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a group founded out of Ronald Reagan’s CIA in the 1980s to grease the wheels of right-wing regime-change efforts and promote “free markets” across the planet.

98.3% Of Ghana’s Gold Remains In The Hands Of Multinational Corporations

June 11, 2019 By Celina della Croce, Commondreams.org Educate! Africa, Corporations, Ghana, Imperialism, New Economy

Every year, the vast majority of Ghana’s natural wealth is stolen. The country is among the largest exporters of gold in the world, yet—according to a study by the Bank of Ghana—less than 1.7 percent of global returns from its gold make their way back to the Ghanaian government. This means that the remaining 98.3 percent is managed by outside entities—mainly multinational corporations, who keep the lion’s share of the profits. In other words, of the $5.2 billion of gold produced from 1990 to 2002, the government received only $87.3 million in corporate income taxes and royalty payments.

The Politics Of Pesticides: Monsanto Under Fire

March 22, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast health, Imperialism, Monsanto, Pesticides

Through a series of mergers, pesticide companies are consolidating, taking over seed companies and pushing genetically-engineered foods. Companies such as Monsanto, now merged with Bayer, and Dow and Dupont, which have merged, are chemical companies with a long history of producing toxic chemicals, including chemical weapons used in warfare. We speak with Mitchel Cohen and Robin Esser, authors of "The fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides," who spoke about the corruption and health impacts of pesticides as well as the connections to imperialism and colonialism.

#HandsOffVenezuela March In Washington: No To Economic And Military Warfare

March 17, 2019 Julia Conley, Commondreams. Resist! Imperialism, Sanctions, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

Washington, DC - Denouncing the "strangling" of the Venezuelan economy via sanctions and demanding the Trump administration allow the South American country to determine its own fate, pro-democracy protesters marched through Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand, "Hands Off Venezuela!" The demonstration came seven weeks after the Trump administration recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president, rebuking President Nicolas Maduro, who won re-election last May. U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned oil company followed, on top of the $30 million per day earlier U.S. sanctions have cost the country.

New Details Of Failed Assassination Against Maduro

March 17, 2019 Mision Verdad. Educate! Assassination, Imperialism, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

The US network ,CNN, published an investigation in which it again confirms the official version of the attempt to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro. The revelation comes from an interview with a former Venezuelan soldier who contributed videos and photos of the group training in the "Colombian plains" to execute the failed assassination with drones. In these videos, collected by the CNN correspondent in Colombia, it can be clearly seen how drones are sent again and again as high as possible and then abruptly descending to explode near the floor, exactly as they wanted to do in August of 2018.

Solidarity Isn’t A Slogan, It’s A Process

March 17, 2019 By Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuelanalysis.com. Strategize! Imperialism, Oil and Gas, Trade, Venezuela

Imperialism is not a static phenomenon. What we had in the 19th century and into the early 20th century is different from what we have now. At that time, production was mostly inside nations. You had the Ford Motor Company located in the United States in competition with Daimler located in Germany, and most Daimler cars were built in Germany, while most Ford cars were built in the United States. They were competing for resources in third or fourth or fifth countries and for markets and finance, etc. That was a form of inter‐capitalist rivalry, and it pushed countries to use their political, military, and economic power to get an advantage over other countries.

Venezuela: Cyber Attack On Electric Grid Came From U.S.

March 17, 2019 Telesur English. Educate! Cyber Attack, Electric Grid, Imperialism, Venezuela

Caracas, VZ - The constitutional president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, denounced on Friday that the cyber attack against the Venezuelan electric system, which caused a five-day national blackout, was directed from Houston and Chicago, cities in the United States. All services were taken away from the Venezuelan "people, in an attack commanded directly by the United States and by John Bolton," who is the National Security Advisor for the White House, President Nicolas Maduro said during a televised national address in Caracas, held by the Armed Forces and Venezuelan governors.

What A U.S. Peace Delegation Learned In Venezuela

March 17, 2019 the Black Alliance for Peace. Educate! Imperialism, Sanctions, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

We mentioned last week that to gather the full range of evidence on U.S. efforts to sabotage Venezuela, a delegation of 13 leaders from peace, civil rights and women’s organizations were heading to Venezuela for five days. The trip flying in was difficult because many airlines have refused to fly to Venezuela over perceived “danger”. Now, the trip back has been made more difficult because American Airlines refuses to fly to Venezuela. Yet this delegation found the embattled country lively and safe. While delegation members were stuck on the ground until further notice, they livestreamed yesterday.

How To Decolonise The University

February 19, 2019 Talia Dundoo, Mediadiversified.org Create! Higher Education, Imperialism, Racism

In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal from their campus of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a racist imperialist businessman and politician. The emergence of the #RhodesMustFall campaign started a more globally organised movement for the decolonisation of universities across the world, including demands to make the social sciences rethink the content and form of teaching and learning. As a part of the movement, we welcomed the recently published book Decolonising the University, a collection of “resources for students and academics to challenge and resist coloniality inside and outside the classroom”...

How Militarization Impedes The Green New Deal

February 17, 2019 Cameron Orr, People's World. Educate! Fossil Fuels, Green New Deal, Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Fighting for a Green New Deal in the United States will require uniting all popular forces against the main barriers to social and ecological progress. The Sunrise Movement, which has brought the Green New Deal to the forefront of conversations about the environment, has identified fossil fuel interests as a main barrier to a green economy. Leaders like Aru Shiney-Ajay have rightly noted that solving climate issues will require “transforming our agriculture, transport, and energy systems,” and “massively investing in communities hit first and worst.” In order to overcome the stranglehold of fossil fuel interests over the political system, we need to understand how the military weapons and fossil fuel industries are intertwined.

Syria After The Defeat Of Imperialism

January 8, 2019 Eva Bartlett, In Gaza and Beyond Educate! Imperialism, Syria, US Regime Change, Wars and Militarism

This article and series of videos show realities we do not see in the western media. The US, NATO, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Turkey have been defeated in their brutal attempt to take over Syria. This is what life looks like in the capital city, Damascus, after dealing with terrorist attacks and mortars (supported by the US). Life is returning to normal. We hope the withdrawal from Syria announced by President Trump continues and pressure from neocons like his National Security Adviser John Bolton and other neocons is defeated. Patrick Coburn describes this conflict in the administration, the inaccurate media reporting in the US and the weak position of the US in Syria...

Is Russia Imperialist?

December 28, 2018 By Stansfield Smith, Popular Resistance Educate! Imperialism, Russia

Russia is said to be an imperialist world power, one in conflict with the imperialist superpower, the US. Russia has been characterized in this manner both during the period of the Soviet Union, and after the Soviet Union collapsed and separate states were formed. Russia is also said to be a non-imperial capitalist state, one still struggling to recover from the crisis of the Soviet collapse and the political and economic catastrophe of the Yeltsin years, when it degenerated into a near neo-colonial client looted by the US. We will look at how capitalist Russia today has imperialist features as seen in the role Russian capitalist monopolies play in the world imperialist system, Russian export trade in general, the export of Russian capital, the role played by Russian finance capital, and finally Russian military power.

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