When Flotillas Fight for Life, Not Empire
Olivia DiNucci for Codepink Flotillas have historically been fleets of military vessels—tools of empire designed for swift offensive or defensive operations at sea. The images they evoke are ones of…
Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these…
US Imperialism And The Hubris Of White ‘Supremacy’ Ideology
The Empire Has No Clothes. Completely stripped of its democratic veneer, U.S. imperialism has been exposed as a system of monopoly capitalism driven by white supremacist psychopathology. Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright,…
The U.S. War on Cuba’s Doctors
Nuvpreet Kalra “Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got a botched surgery. The work they’ve…
Liberals Denounce Insufficiently Procedural Imperialism
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Trump said yesterday he believed he would “have the honour of taking Cuba”. Spoken like a true rapist, and a true American. Sixty-five years of…
We’re Tired of Marco Rubio Speaking for Us: A New Cuban-American Movement
Justine Medina “Put three Cubans in a room together, you’ll have five different opinions,” a Cuban friend of mine likes to joke. He was referring to debates in the town-hall…
The Week That Will Decide Years
By Nate Bear for Do Not Panic Lenin’s refrain that “there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen” is overused because it’s true. And I have a…
The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke
By Mnar Adley / MintPress News More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. But corporate mainstream media outlets like…
World At Dangerous Crossroads, Only Two Paths Forward: Anti-Imperialist Socialism or Fascist Barbarism
The US-led imperialist world system is in deep crisis, so it wages a new cold war to prevent multipolarity, while lurching toward fascism. The left must offer a true alternative…