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, by KLINKNER Philip, SMITH Rogers M.
Donald Trump’s measures ending government diversity efforts are part of a much broader effort to reverse civil rights gains for all Americans. It’s not the first time such a backlash has happened.
For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of (…)
, by FINKEL David
On the occasion of Jimmy Carter’s passing, I pulled up the archival recording of the signing of the Camp David Accords, September 17, 1978.
What I remembered most about the event happens just after the 25-minute point. Check it out for yourself. After Menachem Begin and Carter embrace, Begin (…)
, by SMITH Michael K.
A pious Sunday school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he came to Washington to reestablish public faith in government just when popular disgust at monstrous U.S. crimes in Indochina had reached unprecedented heights. The big business agenda during his term in (…)
, by AMARAL Aaron, CAMFIELD David
David Camfield interviews Tempest’s Aaron Amaral about the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the development of the two-party system, and the history and possibility of mass challenges from below for an episode of podcast Victor’s Children. What follows is a transcript of that interview, edited (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Belgian ecosocialist activist Daniel Tanuro’s book-length deep dive into the Trump phenomenon is now here in a new English translation.
Foreword by Daniel Tanuro to the English Translation
Editor’s Note: In 2017, during the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Belgian ecosocialist (…)
, by CHENOY Anuradha M
For the Global South, Kissinger could well be called Dr. Death. He insured that whichever country raised a voice or could potentially show opposition to the US would have their head bashed in. This was Kissinger- grand strategist for the US empire, enforcer of imperialism, godfather of the (…)
, by BENN Aluf
More than any other person, Henry Kissinger set Israel’s special status in America’s foreign policy, as a state exempt from abiding by norms the U.S. demands of others. His approach was congruent with Israel’s foreign policy
Henry Kissinger, left, with Benjamin Netanyahu in 1999.Credit: (…)
, par HAYES Jarrod
Henry Kissinger’s influence on US foreign policy is profound. His transactional approach – avowedly values free – includes support of murderous and genocidal foreign leaders.
In 2023, Henry Kissinger will mark a century since his birth and more than 50 years of influence on American foreign (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
The North American British colonies and then the United States carried out genocidal suppression of the Native Americans, and similar suppressions of native peoples occurred in other settler-colonial countries.
It has become more widely known in recent years that bourgeois democracy in the (…)
, by MIAH Malik
”AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AT all levels, including in California, has historically criminalized African Americans for the purposes of social control, and to maintain an economy based on exploited Black labor.
“This criminalization is an enduring badge of slavery and has contributed to the (…)
, by PHILLIPS-FEIN Kim
It’s easy to chalk up the Watergate scandal to Richard Nixon’s singular paranoia. But his criminal actions are better understood as a reaction to the social upheavals of the day and a feverish attempt to destroy the Left.
Review of Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff (Simon & (…)
, by WOODFORD John
Review of John Woodford, Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927. By Jeffrey B. Perry. Columbia University Press, 2021, 768 pages plus notes and index.
One hundred years hence, what change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade.… Oppression and war will be heard (…)
, by WEIR Stan
Stan Weir is an invisible figure for today’s new Left. A lifelong revolutionary socialist who devoted his life to shop-floor struggles in the U.S. workplace, he should be better known. His classic work, A New Era of Labor Revolt, provided a road map for the 1960s New Left that “turned to the (…)
, by MIAH Malik
“I do not need this court, these prosecutors, or a piece of paper to tell me I am innocent,” said Muhammad Aziz, who spent two decades in prison for the 1965 murder of revolutionary Black rights leader Malcolm X.
Incredibly, a federal judge in Manhattan, New York, exonerated Aziz and fellow (…)
, by ZINN Howard
For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we feature an excerpt from Chapter One of A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn describes why he tells the story of Columbus’s arrival “from the viewpoint of the Arawaks” and “the inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Gilbert Achcar explores the consequences of attempted US expansionism in the ‘Greater Middle East’
Twenty years ago, nineteen men, filled with hatred of the United States and faith in the promise of paradise, (…)
, by COCKBURN Andrew
The late defence secretary’s micromanagement style – arrogant, bullying and ignorant – helped ensure the disastrous outcome
Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense under George W Bush, who died on 30 June at the age of 88, enjoyed one all-important attribute, which was to appear larger than he (…)
, by BORGER Julian
Analysis: reluctance to take heed of warnings that did not fit in with his worldview continues to burden the US government two decades on.
Donald Rumsfeld’s name will forever be associated with the biggest military fiasco in US history, the 2003 invasion of Iraq in pursuit of non-existent (…)
, by JOHNSON Cedric
Huey Newton’s shifting political analysis illuminates both the limits and the ongoing relevance of the radicalism of the Black Panther era.
In August 1970, Roy Wilkins, the sexagenarian leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), used his syndicated (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
One hundred years ago, a white mob attacked the black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma and in two days killed hundreds of people, burned to the ground every building, and left ten thousand homeless.
The event began when Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old who shined shoes for a living was (…)
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