Category: Thinking Politically

Most if not all of the contradictions that are maturing today emerge from long ago events shaped by the US’s national religions of anti-Communism and racial supremacy. The Cold War and its deeply embedded assumptions account for a great share of the waste, irrationality, brutality, and chaos that we are living through today.

Dissatisfied with either Marxism or Identity Politics to provide a satisfactory explanation of social behavior, this article provides what the author believes is a better explanation of social behavior. Part 1, herein, shows that when examined completely, the inadequacy of currently established social theory becomes obvious. In Part 2–to be published in a week–he will…

On May 24th, Eritrea celebrated its 34th Independence Day. From September 1, 1961, to May 24, 1991, the Eritrean people waged a 30-year war to free themselves from the Ethiopian empire, first under the control of Emperor Haile Selassie and then under the Derg regime’s Mengistu Haile Mariam. Eritrea was the first of five African…

Governments and their allies are using the International Decade for People of African Descent (UN) to whitewash and conceal their capitalist policies of exploitation and oppression. The results of the first decade (2015-2024) in the Dominican Republic are negative, and we must approach the new decade beginning in 2025 with a critical eye. Only through…

In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution, and, above all, a web of international complicity. It is a colony in the full Marxist sense of the term: a territory exploited, dominated, and manipulated…

A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth. Anti-imperialists, socialists, and peace and justice communities across Africa and the world are inspired by the newly federated Alliance of Sahel States and…

The truth is that the all charter school district is a giant failure that even corruption rampant New Orleans is struggling to hide.

AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT sector of the population is almost never recognized in the so-called culture wars over book banning.

Trump and RFK Jr.’s anti-vax crackdown is driving Americans across state lines—and making some pay out of pocket.