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Europe, Israel and the USA: The Triangle of Guilt
In 1947, Karl Jaspers published a short book entitled The Question of German Guilt (Die Schuldfrage)[1]. It was the time of a Germany devastated in body and soul, a pariah people, disgraced before the...
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Imperialism In Black Face
On January 26, 2024, Kenya’s high court deemed its plan to send 1,000 police officers to head up a so-called United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti unconstitutional. This is because there is no...
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DRC Bleeds Conflict Minerals For Green Growth
“Inside every phone is the blood of a Congolese person.” These words from Pascal Mirindi, a student and activist in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), encapsulate the deadly links between war,...
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Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony
Haiti and Honduras have made headlines in the last few weeks. Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking. He faces life in prison. Haiti is...
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Fighting for a Decolonial Feminist Europe
From the idea of blood purity to the “Great Replacement” conspiracy, from colonial slavery to the risk of a new green colonialism, Europe’s prosperity is built on segregation and exploitation....
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When I Say Africa
Near the start of the documentary film The Greatest Night in Pop Music, released at the beginning of 2023, the American singer-songwriter Lionel Richie describes how he and Michael Jackson came up with...
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Biden’s Sanctions Against Israeli Settlers Ignores State’s Role in West Bank...
Building on an unprecedented wave of settler violence in 2023, Israeli attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have intensified since October 7, with over 400 Palestinians killed by...
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Workers Can Halt the War Machine
History is often understood through the stories of “great men,” reflecting capitalism’s encouragement of the individual and suspicion of the collective. Socialists, understandably, have traditionally...
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What is Haiti to me?
In 1925 the African American and Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen posed the following significant question, what is Africa to me? Cullen was attempting to deal with the image of Africa in the...
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Prominent Jewish Americans Condemn AIPAC Effort to ‘Dominate’ US Primaries
More than 100 prominent Jewish Americans signed a statement released Wednesday condemning the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s increasingly aggressive interventions in U.S. elections,...
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The Iraq War Remade the World in Its Grisly Image
The failure to reckon with the people and the politics that made the Iraq War happen is one of the most tragic and significant oversights in recent history. To understand where we are today, in terms...
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The Invasion of Gaza’s Resources Begins: Jared Kushner, the EU, Egypt & US
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son in law who previously tried to steal land in the Middle East from Arabs has said that Israel should empty the Gaza strip of civilians. He said that “Gaza’s waterfront...
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Kosovo in Retrospect: Rise and Fall of the ‘Rules-Based Order’
NATO expansion, Western leaders vaunting wars for values, international judges ruling on accusations of genocide, calls to defend civilisation against barbarism — it sometimes feels as if we are still...
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Senegal’s Elites Wanted to Trash Democracy. Voters Didn’t.
Last Thursday night, cheers bellowed across Senegal’s capital Dakar. A few blocks from where I stood in the city’s posh Plateau district, Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye left the prison they...
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Sudan Hunger Crisis: 230,000 Children and Mothers Could Die in Coming Months
Sudan is on track to become the world’s worst hunger crisis, according to the United Nations. For over a year, fighting between the Sudanese military and the rival Rapid Support Forces has disrupted...
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Israel Remains Intent on Genocide Despite World Court Orders
Israel is continuing its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza and hindering humanitarian relief efforts despite specific orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or the...
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Hyperimperialism: US-NATO’s Dangerous and Decadent New Stage, w/ Vijay Prashad
What is this new era of “Hyperimperialism” for the US/NATO Empire? Where do Gaza, Ukraine, and the Cold War on China fit in? How is the decline of Global North hegemony shifting the geopolitical...
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Congo Beyond The Hashtags
While social media has amplified calls for social justice in long-ignored parts of the world, it should only be the beginning of our activism. The 2023 AFCON tournament in Côte d’Ivoire saw the...
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60 Years Since Coup, Brazilians Call on US to Declassify its Role
Today marks a solemn anniversary in Brazil: 60 years ago, the Brazilian military seized power from the government of João Goulart, marking the start of over two decades of military rule. Brazil’s 2014...
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Haitian Community Defenders Fight US-Armed Death Squads and Puppet Governments
As the stars illuminate the dark alleyways of Solino, Ezayi’s heavy beige Timberlands stomp across the cracked concrete. He is on a mission. The night lookouts who stand guard at the western barricades...
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