imperialism
Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]
June 25, 2020Self-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.
Read moreAnti-China racism aims to distract Australians as U.S. economic control grows
June 24, 2020Among the top 20 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange, 15 (three in four) are majority-owned by U.S. investors.
Read moreU.S. must return political prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia
June 24, 2020Simón 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.
Read moreTrump threatens to re-start nuclear weapons tests, undoing 50 years of agreements
June 18, 2020Some 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.
Read moreNew U.S. military intervention subverts peace in Colombia and Venezuela
June 5, 2020U.S. troops on the way to Colombia, officially to fight narco-terrorism. But the threat to Venezuela can't be ignored.
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