Global Intifada

As the global economy undergoes perhaps the greatest market correction in modern history, rising prices will only increase political instability. As American power recedes due its own economic woes and its inability to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, its grip on the international system will recede. It will increasingly be forced to pack up its […]

Unfortunately, the talk of a return to the Cold War has become quite frequent among political analysts these days due to American and Russian competition in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. The term is misleading because, unlike the Cold War which was essentially characterized by the bipolar nature of international relations, the present conflict is […]

“In the United States war-related expenditures have constituted the dominant sector of the federal budget throughout our history. Omitting the years of the Second World War and the post-war period, where the record is so well known, a tabulation of federal expenditures by decade, from 1800 to 1939, for army, navy, veteran’s compensations and pensions, […]

History of American Interventions from 1790 until Today
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Here’s a rough draft of something I’ve been working on. Its incomplete and I have to go back and insert further evidence and proper citation and what not.
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Introduction: Three Weak Theories of American State Action
There are three conventional methodologies of attempting to understand how America behaves as a state: (1) to examine and take […]

Are the Wars on Terror and Iraq truly designed to promote global stability or merely to pursue American interests? Is this expansionism a new phenomenon or merely a manifestation of a pre-existing pathology to control the world at the expense of other peoples?
- Extermination of the Native Americans
- Spanish-American Wars followed by the brutal suppression […]

As you read this post, I would advise that you pop in classic modern rock song “The Boys Are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy.
Got the song on? Okay, now proceed with reading the post.
According to the New York Times, several Western oil companies that were kicked out of Iraq for 36 years during Saddam […]

“In this sense it is important to point out how the ‘international community’ has been reconfigured, so that it is conceptualized in opposition to terrorism. This means that a charge of terrorism can be used to exclude states and peoples from membership of the ‘international community’ and thus from being protected by the provisions of […]

Every hegemonic state must convince both its own citizens and the citizens of other states of its in power and virtue in order to deter any potential challenges to their grip on power. They promote a vision that the rise of the hegemonic state was “inevitable”, “unavoidable”, and now “invincible.”
However, as is with all hegemonic […]

Here’s a video that attempts to explore the origins of violence in Palestine by placing it within the context of an occupied people by a foreign power that relies upon military force and intimidation to justify this occupation as opposed to the distorted view presented by the corporate media through the lens of “terrorism”. It […]