Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on neocolonialism, colonialism and imperialism, and its real role, relevance and influence on the international stage, This includes content about countries that impose imperialist rule e.g. many European countries, the US; as well as countries who suffer as a result of imperialist rule e.g. many of the countries in Africa, South America and Asia.
The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over…
There are people who live from their own work. There are people who live from the work of others. And then there…
More than seven decades after the Fifth Pan-African Congress demanded the complete liberation of Africa from colonial domination, the continent still finds…
Like oil in the twentieth century, lithium is the ‘white gold’ of the twenty-first. Demand for this key element is driving economic…
In the span of one month, May 2026, one of Canada’s oldest mining firms, Sherritt International, was distressed by US regulatory lawfare and…
Among the familiar sea of Israeli flags at the Jerusalem Day Flag March last month, another symbol caught my eye: a light-blue…
I was genuinely surprised by the Starmer regime’s refusal to state that the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud Flotilla on the…
On June 1, despite a ceasefire ostensibly underway in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Israel’s prime minister launched a major escalation against…
In peripheral capitalist formations, women are not merely a gendered or social category. They occupy a structural position at the intersection of…
Like most of America’s wars in West Asia, the current joint U.S.-Israel attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran is about securing…
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