imperialism

Content about imperialism – states attempting to assert their power and influence over other states – and struggles against imperialism.

Bombing of Vietnam, 1965, public domain

Democracy restored - Noam Chomsky

November 1994 article by Noam Chomsky on the restoration of democracy and the effective US intervention in Haiti.

The imperialist legacy of Boko Haram

The widespread poverty and deprivation from Nigeria's neocolonial legacy has created a fertile recruiting ground for Boko Haram's Islamist…

Dispatches for the New York Tribune: selected journalism of Karl Marx

Karl Marx is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the…

Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 - Zachary Lockman

A .pdf of the seminal book by Zachary Lockman detailing a class history of Palestinian and Jewish…

The American Peace Corps: volunteers for free enterprise [extended]

Originally post on "Reflections on a Revolution" Like many Americans, I knew very little…

Understanding power: The indispensable Chomsky - Noam Chomsky

The best of Chomsky's talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power.

Washington rules: America's path to permanent war - Andrew Bacevich

For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about…

Making the future: Occupations, interventions, empire and resistance - Noam Chomsky

Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the…

Manufacturing consent: The political economy of the mass media - Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman

In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to…

The great war for civilisation: The conquest of the Middle East - Robert Fisk

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an…

The Korean War: A history - Bruce Cumings

For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on…

Dominion from sea to sea: Pacific ascendancy and American power - Bruce Cumings

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s…