imperialism – People's World

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]

June 25, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.

Anti-China racism aims to distract Australians as U.S. economic control grows

June 24, 2020 By Celeste Dale

Among the top 20 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange, 15 (three in four) are majority-owned by U.S. investors.

U.S. must return political prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia

June 24, 2020 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Simón Trinidad, a leader of the FARC, faced unfounded criminal charges in a U.S. court. He’s being held under the cruelest of conditions and will die in prison unless he is released.

Trump threatens to re-start nuclear weapons tests, undoing 50 years of agreements

June 18, 2020 By Conn Hallinan

Some of this is about making arms manufacturers and generals happy, but it is also about the fact that the last war the U.S. won was Grenada.

New U.S. military intervention subverts peace in Colombia and Venezuela

June 5, 2020 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

U.S. troops on the way to Colombia, officially to fight narco-terrorism. But the threat to Venezuela can't be ignored.