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The Kremlin accuses Ukraine of persecuting the Russian language as propaganda to justify the Ukraine War. But on the home ...
The world looked on in horror when, on June 21, US warplanes carried out a massive air strike against Iran. This included the ...
The dramatic shift in U.S. imperialism under the Donald Trump presidency, both in his initial term of office and even more in the current one, has created enormous confusion and consternation ...
World War II: the genesis of modern imperialism RON JACOBS salutes a magnificent narrative that demonstrates how the war replaced European colonialism with US imperialism and Soviet power The ruins of ...
Instead, one finds a nuanced and balanced presentation of how rulers think during times of war and how that thinking plays out on the ground where people die.
A string of armed attacks on Guyanese soldiers patrolling the disputed Essequibo region has intensified tensions between Guyana and neighboring Venezuela, as both countries continue to assert ...
Pankaj Mishra’s new book, The World After Gaza: A History, was written as a response to the “vast panorama of violence, disorder and suffering that we’re seeing today,” says the author. In ...
It’s a cliche now that we live in an increasingly dangerous and unstable world. Financial markets anxiously calculate “geopolitical risk”. Europe’s biggest war since 1945 rages in Ukraine ...
Trump revives imperialism à la Teddy Roosevelt Donald Trump's positioning on Greenland and the Panama Canal echoes the Monroe Doctrine, which established the 'Western Hemisphere' as an area of US ...
Schumpeter’s response to this is that his sense of “imperialism” is the general usage. For whenever the word imperialism is used, there is always the implication. . .of an aggressiveness for its own ...
A centuries-long tradition of authoritarian rule and disregard for individual rights underpins Vladimir Putin’s imperial project.
During the second world war, for example, one of the highest casualty rates was in the Dutch East Indies—today’s Indonesia.