Oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraine’s agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions. High economic stress and war will lead to more land consolidation by large agribusinesses. Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2023: Grand theft Ukraine: sowing seeds of plunder
“Biden has said that we’re there to depose Vladimir Putin and if that’s why we’re there then we’re killing a lot of Ukrainians as pawns in a proxy war.”–Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2023: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—don’t escalate the war
“We don’t let criminals serve in our office as president.’–Marjorie Taylor Greene
Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2023: Marjorie Taylor Greene—truth telling
Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth: Mental Disorder Continue reading Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth: Mental Disorder
by Ernesto “Che” Guevara Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light should be seen. — Jose Marti Twenty-one years have already elapsed since the end of the last world conflagration; numerous publications, in every possible language, celebrate … Continue reading Ernesto “Che” Guevara: message to the Tricontinental
Noam Chomsky (2012): The emerging New World Order, its roots, our legacy [Credit: Sajjad Jafari] Noam Chomsky is an activist and an emeritus professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This work is licensed under a … Continue reading Noam Chomsky: The emerging New World Order, its roots, our legacy
by Henry A. Giroux The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to … Continue reading Terrorism, violence, and the culture of madness
by Henry A. Giroux The United States’ addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify. Within the last few months, three films appeared that offer role models, however flawed, to young people while legitimating particular … Continue reading Hollywood heroism in the Age of Empire
by Zoltan Zigedy Imperialism, expressed as a nation’s securing economic dominance of, influence over, or advantage from other nations, remains much as Lenin characterized it in his 1916 pamphlet, Imperialism. Its uninterrupted persistence, from the time well before the pamphlet’s … Continue reading The ‘new’ Imperialism
by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan 1. The Triangle of Conflict Analyses of modern Middle East conflicts vary greatly. They range from sweeping regional histories to narratives of individual disputes. They draw on various analytical frameworks and reflect different … Continue reading The weapondollar-petrodollar coalition: still about oil?
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