Imperialism

Cuba Evokes History Of American Imperialism In Latin America

March 26, 2016 Cody Cain, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Cuba, Imperialism, Latin America, United States

By Cody Cain for Counter Punch - As President Barack Obama makes history as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since 1928, we find ourselves reflecting upon our historic relationship with Latin America. We were all taught in school that America is a great and kind nation that promotes freedom and democracy around the world. And many still drink the Kool-Aid of how America can do no wrong. History, however, paints a rather different picture.

Colonization Is Nothing To Be Proud Of

January 26, 2016 Adam Withnall, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Colonialism, Empire, Imperialism, United Kingdom (UK)

By Adam Withnall for Independent - After a new poll found that the British public is generally proud of the country’s imperial history, people have started comparing the worst atrocities of the Empire to the present-day horrors of Isis. The sun famously never set on the British Empire at its height in 1922 – but its rule was enforced through the starvation of local populaces, brutal detention camps, mass executions and slavery. A survey released on Tuesday by YouGov found that 43 per cent of respondents thought that “generally speaking”, the British Empire was a good thing.

The Empire Files: Examining the Syria War Chessboard

January 25, 2016 AbMartin, www.videos.telesurtv.net Resistance Report Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Middle East, United States

By Abby Martin for Tele Sur - The war in Syria is an unparalleled crisis. It has gone far beyond an internal political struggle, and is marked by a complex array of forces that the U.S. Empire hopes to command: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and more. To simplify this web of enemies and friends, Abby Martin interviews Dr. Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of several books.

Beyond Capitalism: A Revolution Of Values

January 17, 2016 Nancy Price, www.thealliancefordemocracy.org Create! Eisenhower, Imperialism, Martin Luther King Jr, militarism, MLK, Poverty, Racism

By Nancy Price, for the Alliance for Democracy. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most revolutionary 1967 speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” marked his movement, from civil rights to a critique of capitalism, a year before he died. Looking “beyond Vietnam,” King questioned a US policy of interventions in foreign countries to defeat not only “Communist tyranny,” but any opposition to the corporate-capitalist system of imperialism and oppression that protects corporate interests and the wealth and power of the ruling classes. “When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people,” he said, “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

Syria Is The Middle Eastern Stalingrad

January 6, 2016 Andre Vltchek, www.dissidentvoice.org Educate! Imperialism, ISIS, NATO, Syria, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

By Andre Vltchek for Dissident Voice - Day and night, for years, an overwhelming force has been battering this quiet nation, one of the cradles of human civilization. Hundreds of thousands have died, and millions have been forced to flee abroad or have been internally displaced. In many cities and villages, not one house is left intact. But Syria is, against all odds, still standing. During the last 3 years I worked in almost all of Syria’s perimeters, exposing the birth of ISIS in the NATO-run camps built in Turkey and Jordan.

Struggle For Economic Justice Between Global North & South

December 20, 2015 Harry Targ, www.heartlandradical.com Educate! Capitalism, Economic Justice, Imperialism, Venezuela

By Harry Targ for Diary of a Heartland Radical. In sum, theories of imperialism, hegemony, dependency need to be complemented by an understanding of the theory and practice of resistance. Mobilizations as varied as the thousands of groups attending the World Social Fora to the politics of the Bolivarian Revolution, to Arab Spring, to Occupy are all part of the story of the twenty-first century. However, narratives of imperialism and resistance must also be sensitive to “counter-resistance.” History does not move in a steady course. Conflict and struggle are experienced all along the way. And therefore theorists and advocates of twenty-first century socialism must be cognizant of and be prepared for counter-resistance and reversals in the progressive flow of history.

Declaration: If We Want To Save The Earth

November 22, 2015 many organizations, www.salvarlatierra.org Create! Capitalism, climate crisis, Empire, Imperialism

For SalvarLaTierra.org. We are a coalition of international activists and this is our environmental declaration approved by 36 popular organizations from the Americas and Europe. We include the largest union of peasant farmers in Colombia; leading anti-war groups from the United States; environmental and youth collectives from Venezuela; political movements from Peru; and independence activists from the Basque Country. We also include human rights defenders, students, environmentalists and social activists from Mexico, Argentina, Spain and Nicaragua. Everyone wants to save the planet and achieve climate justice. This struggle is very broad and includes activists from many classes, political orientations and countries. But there are some of us who understand that ultimately we won’t be able to save the planet, or at least an Earth that we can recognize by its biodiversity, without dismantling capitalism and imperialism.

NATO And The Dangerous Escalation Of US imperialism

November 20, 2015 Danny Haiphong, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Imperialism, NATO

By Danny Haiphong for Black Agenda Report - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has arguably been the most utilized tool of imperial war since the Soviet Union fell in 1991. Ironically, the sole purpose of NATO's creation in 1949 was to "contain" revolutionary socialism wherever it emerged. The world was a very different place in 1949. The Soviet Union had developed into an industrialized, socialist state with links to independence struggles all over the world. 1949 was also the year of the Chinese Revolution. These developments pulled nearly a third of the world's population out from imperialism's orbit.

Sunday: Blue Vigil In Solidarity With Okinawa

September 26, 2015 Ayumi Temlock and Rachel Clark, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Democracy, Imperialism, Japan, Wars and Militarism

By Ayumi Temlock and Rachel Clark of Overseas NY. New York, NY - On September 19, 2015, the upper house of Japan’s Diet passed controversial security legislation, despite widespread opposition. A key feature of the new legislation is an end to a long-standing ban on the right to exercise collective self-defense, or defending the United States and/or allies that come under attack, in cases where Japan faces a "threat to its survival". Many ordinary citizens in Japan as well as hundreds of legal experts - including former Supreme Court justices, previous directors-general of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, many constitutional scholars and the Japan Federation of Bar Associations - called on the Abe administration to withdraw the security legislation, saying that it is unconstitutional.

Japan’s ‘War Laws’ Provoke Skirmish In Parliament, Protests

September 18, 2015 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Resist! Imperialism, Japan, Wars and Militarism

By Sarah Lazare in Common Dreams - While protests raged in the streets outside, a scuffle broke out inside Japan's parliament on Thursday when opposition lawmakers sought to physically prevent the ruling Liberal Democratic Party from passing a series of widely unpopular bills derided as "war legislation" that would allow the country's soldiers to participate in the foreign wars of the United States and other allies. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been aggressively pressing for the rapid passage of the 11-bill package, which already sailed through the lower house in July. On Thursday night, upper house lawmakers in Tokyo opposed to the bills attempted to block a vote by physically preventing the committee chairperson from accessing his microphone. When ruling party politicians surrounded the chairperson, a scrum broke out, with punches thrown and some politicians even piling on top of the melee.

The Yemen Tragedy & The Ongoing Crisis Of The Left In The US

September 17, 2015 Ajamu Baraka, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Imperialism, United States, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Ajamu Baraka in Counterpunch - In Yemen, six months of relentless and seemingly indiscriminate bombing by the repressive Wahhabaist dictatorship of Saudi Arabia has cost the lives of over four thousands human beings, who according to the United Nations and major human rights organizations have been primarily civilians. Along with this wanton murder, the Saudi government and its allies from the contemptuous gang of corrupt Arab monarchies known as the Gulf Cooperation Council benefit from the diplomatic cover and military support from the equally contemptuous U.S. state. Together, they have created a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the poorest nations on the planet. Yet, for the majority of the people in the U.S., the carnage in Yemen simply does not exist because it has not been in the interests of the rulers to draw the attention of the American people to it.

US Secretly Targeted Evo Morales Of Bolivia

September 16, 2015 Ryan Grim and Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Bolivia, Evo Morales, Imperialism, War On Drugs

By Ryan Grim and Nick Wing in The Huffington Post - The United States has secretly indicted top officials connected to the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales for their alleged involvement in a cocaine trafficking scheme. The indictments, secured in a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sting called "Operation Naked King," have not been previously reported. Morales, a former leader of Bolivia's coca growers union, has long been at loggerheads with the DEA. In 2008, Morales expelled the agency from the country and embarked on his own strategy of combatting drug trafficking, acknowledging the traditional uses of coca in Bolivian culture and working cooperatively with coca growers to regulate some legal activity and to promote alternative development elsewhere. Morales' plan has been effective at reducing cultivation, according to the United Nations.

Okinawa Governor To Block Construction Of New US Airbase

September 15, 2015 Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com Resist! Imperialism, Japan, Wars and Militarism

By Justin McCurry in The Guardian - The governor of the Japanese island of Okinawa is poised to halt work on a US airbase, in a move that is expected to irritate Washington and frustrate Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, as his government seeks to pass deeply unpopular security bills this week. Takeshi Onaga, who was elected as governor last year vowing to prevent construction of an offshore US marine base in the remote Henoko district on Okinawa’s east coast, said he would revoke permits to conduct landfill work. “This is a first step towards preventing this from being built,” he told reporters two days after the central government resumed reclamation work in Henoko’s pristine waters. Protesters in kayaks had previously clashed with the coastguard in the area. He added: “We will use every possible measure to block the construction of a new base in Henoko, as we promised during our election campaign.”

The Iraq War: The Root Of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

September 12, 2015 Imran Khan, www.aljazeera.com Educate! Europe, Imperialism, Refugees, Wars and Militarism

By Imran Khan in Al Jazeera - Thousands have crossed continents and have ended up in Europe seeking that same respite. By and large it's taken Europe by surprise. Opinions vary on how to deal with the crisis. Some say Europe and the US should step up. Others say the rich Gulf states should use their enormous wealth to help. What no one talks about is the invasion and occupation of Iraq. March 2003 was the pivotal point. Based on controversial evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the war drums beat loudly. The WMD claim was eventually publicly discredited by the CIA's own Iraq survey group report . That report proved whispers and intelligence community doubts from the time that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But it wasn't just those who questioned the evidence. Mass opposition from the British and American public concluded in marches in various Western capitals opposing the war.

An Indigenous Take on #September11

September 11, 2015 Gyasi Ross, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Educate! 9/11, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Racism, Wars and Militarism

By Gyasi Ross for Indian Country Today Media Network - September 11th wasn’t a surprise, at least not for Native people and many people of color. No, Native people were alreadywell aware of how destructive and evil people could be. How did we know? AMERICA TAUGHT US THAT; really, September 11th was only a surprise for white people and for those who didn’t realize that America had already perpetrated many September 11ths of its own. Native people knew that. We knew that America had a whole bunch of blood on its hands and that there was always a harvest season, always a reckoning. Sir Isaac Newton gave that harvest a name in his Third Law of Motion, that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Oh yeah, that means that there will be more September 11ths as well—it’s inevitable unless America works to acknowledge and reconcile with its many victims of domestic terrorism against its own people.

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