Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Sanctions In Gaza

February 24, 2020 Pippa Bartolotti, Workers.org Educate! Gaza, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Sanctions

Feb. 9 — The hardships in Gaza are well known, but the human implications of the blockade are rarely documented in the Western press. This is because the interests of Israel, the U.S. and other nations supporting these sanctions would not be well served by the truth. Let us be clear, these are Israel’s sanctions imposed as an occupying power, but this form of collective punishment upon an already impoverished civilian population is heavily backed by the U.S...

Corruption Of Sanctions & Tariffs Ignored By The Media

February 24, 2020 Ralph Nader, Nader.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Sanctions, Tariffs

The news is filled with stories about President Trump and his predecessors imposing sanctions on other countries, their officials, and other prominent persons. But the media rarely spells out exactly what these sanctions are, the intermediaries who enforce them, the impacts they have on innocent civilians – women, men and children – how they are countered or evaded, and whether they fulfill or undermine their diplomatic, military, or economic purposes.

Breaking With Washington: Arabs And Muslims Must Take A Stance For Palestine

February 22, 2020 Ramzy Baroud, Ramzybaroud.net Organize! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Palestine

A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole new path of liberation that does not go through Washington.

Is The “Axis Of Resistance” In A Better Or Worse Position? The Martyr Qassem Soleimani Achieves Even More Than The Major General Did

February 21, 2020 By Elijah J Magnier, Ejmagnier.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East

More than forty days ago a US drone assassinated Major General Qassem Soleimani, leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Quds Brigade and leader of the “Axis of the Resistance”. He was killed after midnight at Baghdad airport between the second and the third of January along with his companions. Has the “Axis of Resistance” been weakened by this event, and what has it achieved since then?

Guaidó’s U.S.-Sponsored International Tour Begging For More Support For An Exhausted Golpista Project

February 19, 2020 Danny Shaw, Coha.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

The self-proclaimed president Juan Guaidó returned to Venezuela on February 11 after a two-week, U.S.-sponsored international tour where he posed not just as Venezuela’s president but as the leader of a divided opposition. As the media outlet Redfish’s coverage shows, his reception in Caracas was not as warm as his reception at the White House and in his highly-publicized meetings with elites of the European Union.[1]

Lima Group To Meet In Quebec As Trudeau Consolidates His Role In Attacking Venezuela

February 19, 2020 Arnold August, Resumen-english.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change

The Lima Group meets in Gatineau Quebec on February 20, 2020, across the river from Ottawa’s Parliament Hill. The group was originally established on August 8, 2017, in Lima, Peru. Twelve countries initially signed the declaration known as the Lima Declaration: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru.

Coronavirus: Media And Politicians Take Anti-China Fear Mongering To New Levels

February 18, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! China, Coronavirus, health, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda

Despite praise from the World Health Organization for its handling of the coronavirus, China has been derided by Western media and politicians alike over nearly every aspect of its response. Starting in Wuhan in December, the coronavirus outbreak has spread across China, infecting around 64,000 people and worrying the rest of the world. Fueling the panic, media have been printing alarmist scare stories and politicians peddling false information.

We Talk About One U.S.-Backed Coup. Hondurans Talk About Three.

February 18, 2020 By Meghan Krausch, Inthesetimes.com Educate! Coups, Honduras, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change

Despite ample evidence of extreme human rights abuses in the immediate aftermath of Zelaya’s removal, the United States decided to support elections widely considered questionable held in November 2009. In the last three weeks, two groups totaling over 4,000 people attempted to flee Honduras. At the same time, Indigenous groups back in Honduras are engaged in fighting a new law they say will increase their displacement and the violence that is aimed against them.

U.S. Uneasy As Iraq Gets New Prime Minister

February 17, 2020 M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Punchline and Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Educate! Electoral Politics, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East

In happier times, Washington and Tehran might well have zeroed in on Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi as their consensus candidate for the post of Iraq’s prime minister. Why not? He was opposed to Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship—although, unlike most Shia politicians who fled from Saddam’s tyranny, he never lived in Iran but chose the United Kingdom.

It Is Not Just Venezuela. Nicaragua Is Also An Objective Of Imperialism

February 17, 2020 Ramon Pedregal Casanova, Pacocol.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Nicaragua, Regime Change, Venezuela

The violence began with a revolt in April 2018 and at the end, the gangs supported by the gringos had left hundreds of dead and wounded, destruction of public and private goods, and demolished the tourism sector, which was one of the largest sources of income of the nation. The fascists had sought with the US hand to break the legs of Nicaragua's social progress. To date, the economic, social and political recovery is evident.

Can The World’s Second Superpower Rise From The Ashes Of Twenty Years Of War?

February 14, 2020 By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, Codepink.org Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, U.S., Wars and Militarism

February 15 marks the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive that the New York Times called world public opinion “the second superpower.” But the U.S. invaded anyway. So what has become of the momentous hopes of that day?

The Fraud Machine At Work In Bolivia

February 13, 2020 Carlos Fazio, La Jornada, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau Educate! Bolivia, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change

The counter-revolution in Bolivia is advancing under the parameters of a U.S.-made hybrid war and with the blessings of the conservative hierarchy of the local Catholic Church. In its current phase, the regime of exception of self-proclaimed President Jeanine Añez has unleashed an open war against the Movement for Socialism (MAS) of the ousted president Evo Morales, using the law via lawfare as the main vengeful weapon of the coup mongers.

The Arctic: World War III’s Newest Battlefield

February 11, 2020 By Michael Klare, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Arctic, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, US Imperialism

When I first met Michael Klare in the late Neolithic age (it was actually the early 1970s), he was already researching the U.S. military in a way no one else was doing. His first book on the subject, War Without End: American Planning for the Next Vietnams, had just been published. The title remains eerily apt, given Washington’s twenty-first-century “forever wars.” Almost 50 years later, he’s still ahead of the curve and his newest book on that military, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, has only recently come out.

Did Washington Use A False Pretext For Its Recent Escalation In Iraq?

February 10, 2020 Staff, Justworldnews.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East

In a key piece of actual extensive, on-the-ground reporting, the New York Times’s Alissa Rubin has raised serious questions about the official US account of who it was that attacked the K-1 base near Kirkuk, in eastern Iraq, on December 27. The United States almost immediately accused the Iran-backed Ketaib Hizbullah (KH) militia of responsibility.

Starve The Beast, Feed The Community + Kings Of A Graveyard

February 6, 2020 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Sanctions, Whistleblowers

Uncle Sam's manifest destiny is to become king of a global graveyard – how our economic warfare kills and tortures millions worldwide and how folks here and elsewhere are organizing to fight back against so-called sanctions. Next, updates on whistleblowers and publishers and finally a look at building thriving communities in the face of over-policing, prisons and detention.

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