Essays & Interviews
‘Worse than Hitler’: Nazi revisionism in the service of US foreign policy
In routinely comparing its geopolitical rivals to Hitler, the US is able to obscure the broader political context of the given crisis and whitewash its direct role in causing it – allowing the West to maintain the fiction that it uses its military power for justice.
The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist
Solidarity with the Palestinian cause is meaningless if it dissipates the moment that the Palestinians resist their oppression with anything more than rocks. Those who are not under brutal military occupation or refugees from ethnic cleansing have no right to judge the manner in which those who are choose to confront their colonisers
The false hope of a Biden presidency
It is telling that many of those who have publicly celebrated the election results are those liberals who, in their own words, cannot wait to stop caring about politics again. It is only those aware of Biden’s decades as a senior official of the US empire that understand the implications of his victory.
This is Not an Aberration
Contrary to the racist notion that it should not lower itself to the standards of its enemies, it must be stated plainly that the US is in fact the global expert on assassinations, crushing internal dissent, and mass violence.
The Progressive International, a Global Green New Deal and the Limits of ‘Left Unity’
The Progressive International stands in marked contrast to the earlier internationalist alliances, and much like the original New Deal in the 1930s it is an attempt to save capitalism and support the very institutions and ideologies that are pushing the planet to the point of no return.