Posts Tagged ‘colonialism’

The History of Public Health Colonialism

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL In a world where ‘equity’ is the catch-cry of corporatists accumulating unprecedented wealth, the return of colonialism should not surprise. Colonialism, after all, brings great benefits to those whom it disempowers and pillages. Success requires a highly centralized approach to achieve mass control, restricting freedom ‘for the greater good’ whilst […]

BL – Bankers’ Colonialism, Conclusion

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BL – Bankers’ Colonialism (Structural Adjustment) Part 2

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Govt Staff Told Belief In 2 Genders “Is A Product & Tool Of Colonialism & White Supremacy”

The extent to which radical gender and race ideology has been imposed on the Civil Service has been exposed in a dossier of internal communications leaked to The Telegraph. Staff in Government departments are being […] The post Govt Staff Told Belief In 2 Genders “Is A Product & Tool Of Colonialism & White Supremacy” […]

Targeting Palestinian children is necessary for Israeli settler colonialism

Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid is based on the extermination of the indigenous population and the elimination of their hope of living freely. Palestinian children represent that hope. Source

We’ve reached the end of western colonialism

Alex Krainer on the Niger coup and more. As usual energy supply is a big issue, this time uranium and gas   On 26 July 2023, Niger’s General Abdourahamane Tchiani overthrew the government of the President Mohamed Bazoum and seized power. It was the sixth coup against a western-friendly government in central and western Africa.   The event unveiled […]

Zionism and India: an old alliance of bigotry and colonialism

HOSTILE HOMELANDS The New Alliance Between India and Israelby Azad Essa240 pp. Pluto Press, $22.95 Azad Essa’s Hostile Homelands is one of the most comprehensive accounts that have come up in recent years about the “new” alliance between India and Israel. The “new” alliance, as Essa proves, is actually quite old. Thus, the book is […]

The Bitcoin Dollar & Crypto-Colonialism with Mark Goodwin

Whitney is joined by Bitcoin Magazine’s Mark Goodwin to discuss how bitcoin is being used by some to dollarize the world and entrench the very same financial power structures, particularly in the developing world, that bitcoin was ostensibly created to challenge. Also discussed are suspect stablecoins and the roles of some in crypto in building […]

We need to end colonialism, not defend ‘Jewish democracy’ 

The current protest movement in Israel is an internal Zionist dispute that seeks to preserve “democracy” without challenging settler colonialism, apartheid, and Jewish supremacy over Palestinians. Source

Heading to Africa once again, the West is trying to revive neo-colonialism

The year 2022 has come to an end and it has become a symbol of universal “de-Westernization.” The criticism of the West is growing everywhere not only for its unwillingness to resolve the Middle East conflict between Palestine and Israel and to reach an agreement on the nuclear dossier with Iran, but also for the […]

Wild boars in Palestine are being weaponized by Israeli colonialism

Much like the JNF’s weaponization of environmentalism to erase Palestinian lands, Israel is now weaponizing conservationism by unleashing wild boars on Palestinian rural communities, wreaking havoc on Palestinian nature, animals, and people. Source

Medieval Colonialism: The Danish Duchy Of Estonia

Within the pantheon of great empires, the Kingdom of Denmark has received very little attention, yet this small European civilization was one the most enterprising of its day following its unification after the Viking period.  Read more Section:  News Premium Preview Read Later  Source

CROWDFUNDING COLONIALISM: WHO IS BANKROLLING ISRAEL’S LATEST EXCURSION INTO THE WEST BANK?

By Jessica Buxbaum Source OCCUPIED WEST BANK — On Wednesday, thousands of Israeli settlers from the Nachala settler group — along with Israeli lawmakers — flocked to the occupied West Bank and established seven illegal outposts in a land grab operation propelled by a massive fundraising campaign. By Thursday evening, Israeli forces evacuated the day-old outposts […]

British Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost Freedom

Irony of Historic National Freedom and Unspoken Tyranny of Imperialism Do nations and civilizations grow out of the moral mire of military conquests, killings of innocent people, political cruelty and subjugation by imperialism? For more than 800 years, India as a Moghul Empire was an economically well integrated and politically viable entity and west European […]

On Haaretz: Can Settler Colonialism Be Liberal and Apartheid Be Progressive?

December 13, 2021 Palestinians at an Israeli military checkpoint. (Photo: via ActiveStills.org) By Ilan Pappe Can you imagine in the heyday of Apartheid in South Africa, a political movement or newspaper that would be regarded as liberal, and commended worldwide for its bravery, notwithstanding expressing their support for the Apartheid system itself? Can you imagine what […]

Facebook’s ‘Digital Colonialism’ Made Monday’s Outage A Crisis For The World

The Facebook outage that struck Monday morning and lasted throughout the day was ultimately a minor inconvenience for most Americans. But in countries like Brazil, it caused a destabilizing and disorienting seven hours ― not because Facebook.com was gone, but because WhatsApp, the messaging service the company also owns, suddenly went offline along with it. […]

Protesting Settler Colonialism In The Neoliberal University

Above photo: “Holding Palestine” artistic protest. Steven Maybury. When Dutch art students wanted to show solidarity with Palestine, their school attempted to silence them. Students resisted with artistic forms of protest. During May’s uprising in Palestine against the latest aggression of the apartheid Israeli state, a few students at the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) in […]

The choice is between Israeli colonialism vs. decolonial justice

“When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves – that is only half the truth. As regards our security and life we defend ourselves…. But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict, which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they […]

Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban Warns LGBT ‘Colonialism’ Is A Threat To Our Way of Life

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused European leaders of acting like “colonialists”over his new LGBT law The bill prohibits the “display or promotion” of homosexuality or gender reassignment in television programmes, films, and sexual education programs in schools. The PM warned that Hungary’s way of life was being threatened by a push coming from […]

Settler colonialism is a reproductive justice issue

Palestinian mothers with their vibrant history of resistance to the occupation should be placed at the forefront of the movement to liberate Palestine. It is, after all, Palestinian mothers who routinely endure and confront the brutality of Israeli oppression while raising, protecting and educating their children. We should affirm the vital contributions made by mothers […]

Neo-colonialism has gone green

‘One of my top priorities… is to champion global action for vulnerable countries on the frontline of climate change.’ So said the UK’s former business secretary and now COP26 president designate Alok Sharma ahead of last month’s ‘global summit on climate and development’. Grand words, but behind them lies a murky reality. The ‘vulnerable’ countries […]

Abbas Statements are Complicit with Israeli Settler-Colonialism

April 22, 2021 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Photo: Kremlin, via Wikimedia Commons) By Ramona Wadi Known for belatedly spouting known truths, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was true to form in his address to the J Street conference recently, which revealed the extent of his collaboration with the international community over Palestine’s loss, and his complicity with […]

How Microsoft is invested in Israeli settler-colonialism

When millions took to the streets last year to protest for Black lives, corporations saw trouble. The abolitionist call within the uprising – defund the police and invest in a better world – challenges state violence and its profiteers. So, companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, which enable state surveillance and violence, boosted their […]

Role of NGOs in Promoting Neo-Colonialism

        There are literally thousands of NGOs, the better known being Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International . NGOs are primarily a modern phenomenon, though The World Alliance of YMCAs was founded in 1855, and the International Committee for the Red Cross came into being in 1863.  1According to one estimate, some 40,000 now qualify as international NGOs […]

Dump Davos #1: Data Colonialism & Hackable Humans

Audio for the first episode of the video series investigating the people and agendas of the World Economic Forum, Whitney Webb and Johnny Vedmore analyze a recent speech given at Davos by Israeli “futurist” historian Yuval Noah Harari that exposes the WEF’s agenda for the “useless class”, the rise of exploited data colonies and the […]

Impact of Religion-Colonialism on Mental Health

 In the 17th century AD, a wave of depression struck Europe. It seemed to affect especially men of genius-John Bunyan, Thomas Gray, John Donne, and Samuel Johnson in England, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Charles Baudelaire in France, Leo Tolstoy in Russia, Max Weber in Germany and in America William James.One Dr George Cheyne lamented in 1733, “Frequency and […]

Latest New York Times Rant About ‘Israeli Settler Colonialism’ Is Seen as Sign of ‘Mental Breakdown’

A taxi passes by in front of The New York Times head office, Feb. 7, 2013. Photo: Reuters / Carlo Allegri / File. A professor at the University of Southern California and Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist is out with a 2,000-word essay in The New York Times exhorting his fellow writers to “denounce Israeli settler colonialism and […]

Energy Transitions And Colonialism

Energy Transitions And Colonialism Above photo:  khaoula ben on Unsplash. A view from North Africa. Any talk about green transition and sustainability must not become a shiny façade for neocolonial schemes of plunder and domination. The year 2020 has seen an unprecedented oil price crash, causing a shock to the fossil fuel industry. The impact has been […]

Indigenous Peoples Day comes amid a reckoning over colonialism and calls for return of Native land

Image Credit: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson In many parts of what is now the United States, communities have in recent years replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. Celebrating Indigenous cultures every Oct. 12 is important. But in this moment when the U.S. is reckoning with legacies of racism and colonialism, many Indigenous nations call for […]

May Day Repression Reveals Savagery of U.S. Colonialism, Resilience of Puerto Rico’s People

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — Puerto Rico’s capital was the site of massive scenes of brutal repression as police clamped down on an International Workers Day march using overwhelming violent force, scattering thousands of protesters who gathered to resist austerity measures and anti-worker attacks on the people of U.S colonial territory. Despite the colonial administration’s […]

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