Tag: U.S. Imperialism
Some of the remnant socialist governments appear to be sliding toward subservience
“Respect for sovereignty is the most significant norm in international politics, and its purpose is to minimize war and facilitate peaceful relations among states.”—John MearsheimerAmerican political scientist and international relations scholar and professor
The U.S. war against Vietnam...
Part Three: Artificial Intelligence = Alienation Instructors
I am conscious of being alienated. Feeling, knowing we have no real control over our lives, or over what happens around us throughout the world. Many of us who look honestly inside feel isolated, estranged from people, society, ourselves. Hopelessly living limply with...
On July 21, 2026, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing on “Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs.”
Colonel Justin Gorkowski of the U.S. Department of Defense, and Ambassador Michael Kozak, the State Department’s Senior Bureau Official of Western Hemisphere Affairs, answered questions from Congress about the “progress” of the...
My morality and thought processes, and much of my writings have I learned from Che Guevara’s meaning about building a socialist society in which people begin to shed themselves from being alienated commodities.
My evaluation of China is based on what Che meant, in order to develop the “New...
That tension—between the ideal of the United States as a leading champion of democracy on the one hand and a leading destroyer of democracy on the other—remains the often-unacknowledged fault line running through American politics today.- Jonathan M. Katz, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and...
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) recently issued a memo which states: Cuba is not Venezuela. What does that mean? “The same people who keep ’57 Chevrolets on the road with a coat hanger will wreak havoc against a foreign-imposed regime.”
In 1975, Jamaica’s socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley expressed support for...
Adelmo Becerra is a Venezuelan trade union activist with the National Institute for Training and Socialist Education (INCES).
In mid-June, Adelmo told Truthout that changes to a hydrocarbons law, instituted after the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro in January, has led Venezuela to “regress more than 100 years, back to...
On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, many in Hawai’i, the 50th territory to “join”/acquire U.S. statehood, decided not to celebrate.
When you better know the history of how rich and greedy U.S. citizens, many of them descendants of the missionaries from the 1830s, conducted a coup that...
June 25th marks the 76th anniversary of the provocation of the Korean War which is referred to in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as the Fatherland Liberation War or Victorious Fatherland Liberation War.
It was a war of a big country against a small country and a racist...
In the eyes of American policy elites Cuba’s most unforgivable crime is not even its socialism, which is now badly frayed, but rather its sovereignty. Cuba’s persistent independence and oppositional survival as a state is an American imperial humiliation.
Revolutionary Cuba’s mere existence threatens the cynicism, complacency and defeatism that does...
