Category: Ireland
Empathy in the Empire: Challenging Misconceptions of Islam and the Middle East
The Frontman of Empire: How Bono’s “Activism” Serves the Powerful
Meet the American military veterans fasting for Gaza
Hundreds of US veterans and allies have been fasting for weeks across the country, in protest against the ongoing war in Gaza
The Anti-Racist Struggle
TO BE LIKE BONO OR KNEECAP?
He hob knobbed with neoliberals such as Jeffrey Sachs, various presidents of the World Bank, promoted pharmaceutical companies in Africa and of course was on the side of Bush in the Iraq War, at least in practice and helped whitewash the reputations of many of those involved. He hedged his bets a bit on Iraq, not wanting to seem too hawkish, saying the war was justified but the US should get UN backing for it. He then went on to endorse Clinton and Blair time and again. Jim Kerr from the Scottish band Simple Minds put it succinctly at the time.
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First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil…
Trump Admin Is Trying To Deport Mahmoud Khalil for Speech That’s ‘Contrary’ to US Foreign Policy
The Trump administration is trying to deport 30-year-old Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who was arrested by ICE agents over the weekend, for activity that is “contrary” to US foreign policy based on his involvement in protests critical of Israel’s war on Gaza at Columbia University.
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Bono awarded US Presidential Medal of Freedom for being a tool of American imperialism
Karl Marx in New-York Tribune 1859: From Population, Crime and Pauperism
Karl Marx in New-York Tribune 1859: From Population, Crime and Pauperism
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery, and increases in crimes even more rapidly than in numbers.
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A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism: 5. “Monism And Dualism”
A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism: 5. “Monism And Dualism”
But this Kievsky argument is wrong. Imperialism is as much our “mortal” enemy as is capitalism. That is so. No Marxist will forget, however, that capitalism is progressive compared with feudalism, and that imperialism is progressive compared with pre-monopoly capitalism. Hence, it is not every struggle against imperialism that we should support. We will not support a struggle of the reactionary classes against imperialism; we will not support an uprising of the reactionary classes against imperialism and capitalism.
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