Category: Thinking Politically
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SPEECH: Why We Use Violence, Frantz Fanon, 1960
Fanon’s work, “Why we Use Violence” transcends the historical moment in which it was written. It speaks prophetically to other moments of repression and resistance with a clarity, passion, and humanity that is rarely matched. And one hundred years after his birth, as the “murderous reactions” of the colonists continue unabated, Fanon’s prophetic, revolutionary genius…
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De-Baathification 2.0: One Year Since the Fall of Syria
Western media celebrate the terrorist they supported as Syria’s savior. Syria’s new U.S.-backed rulers have erased anti-colonial history, enacted neo-liberal policies, and welcomed Israeli occupation, fulfilling the goals of the regime change project.
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Why Washington Labels Volunteer Healers “Forced Labor” — and How We Counter the Smear
When Edith M. Lederer ― a UN press-room fixture since Vietnam ― files a wire, the voice of Uncle Sam still echoes through the copy. Her latest piece for the Associated Press claims that Cuba’s global health brigades amount to “forced labor.” The accusation doesn’t come from a patients’ union or a medical watchdog; it…
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Against climate resilience
Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.
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The Great Hoax Against Venezuela: Oil Geopolitics Disguised as ‘War on Drugs’
During my time as head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), I frequently traveled to Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, but never to Venezuela. There was simply no need.
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Latin America Should Pursue Active Non-Alignment
. The postwar international order that the United States largely designed and built is in crisis, with multilateralism – its guiding principle – under serious strain. This decline was long in the making. During the 1970s oil crises, developing countries, responding to the perceived weaknesses of the global system, advanced the New International Economic Order…
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Palestine’s forgotten oil and gas resources
A fair distribution of oil and gas resources in the Levant Basin will be needed to achieve a lasting political and economic settlement between Israel and Palestine.
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Ecosocialism or Extinction: defending life, building free territories and Ecosocialism from and for the Peoples
“We don’t sell our land because it is like our mother. Our territory is our body. And we don’t sell our body. We don’t sell our mother. We wouldn’t sell it, because it is sacred.”
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67 Children Have Been Killed in Gaza Since ‘Ceasefire’ Began, as Israel Committed Hundreds of Violations
“This is during an agreed ceasefire,” a UNICEF spokesperson said. “The pattern is staggering.”
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Series of Reports Ignored by Media Show Jeffrey Epstein’s Extensive Work With Israeli Intelligence
“It looked like Mossad was working for Epstein instead of Epstein working for Mossad,” said Drop Site News reporter Murtaza Hussain.
