Growing up in the late twentieth-century United States I, like many others, was taught that protestors against the Vietnam war spat on American soldiers when they returned home from the war. When I got older and studied history more thoroughly I discovered that I had been taught a myth. That spitting did not happen.

A brief note on some aspects of Richard Nixon’s Presidency.

The war in Afghanistan is unethical and unjust. It kills thousands of people, is based on faulty logic, and protects an oppressive Afghan government. The United States must withdraw immediately.

The Nobel Peace Prize has repeatedly been awarded to warmongers and imperialists while passing over the likes of Ghandi and Dorothy Day. Giving Barack Obama the prize is only the latest case discrediting it.

Review of “A Hundred Horizons” by Sugata Bose

Review of The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward.

The concept of modernity is flawed, Eurocentric, and not a useful way to understand world history.

Review of “China Transformed” by R. Bin Wong

Imperialism and the U.S. Democratic party. Despite their sometimes dovish rhetoric, the democratic party has a long and bloody history of imperialism & mass murder.

The United States does not belong in Iraq and should immediately withdraw.  US intervention in Iraq only brings death & destruction, while perpetuating imperialism and propping up a puppet dictatorship.

The torture of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers, made famous by the 'torturegate' scandal, is not an isolated incidence but part of something larger. The US is rebuilding Saddam's old dictatorship, but with new people (subordinated to Washington) on top.

Bush claims to be combating terrorism while sponsoring it, launched an imperialist war of aggression against Iraq, and is waging a class war in favor of the rich. It is not merely Bush's whim that brings these policies about, but the way American society is set up.

Foreign intervention in Haiti, past and present. How the U.S. turned Haiti into an American satellite state.

A short critique of terrorism.

The goal of US foreign policy is to impose its authority on the globe and to maintain a neocolonial economic system that benefits the wealthy. The empire treats different regions of the world differently; each has its own role to play.

As a result of the Korean War, fascist Spain went from international pariah state to ally of the American Empire.

The so-called "war on terrorism" is a myth - there is no war on terrorism.  It is actually a propaganda device used by Bush and his cronies to ram through their authoritarian agenda. 

A US-backed coup against the elected government of Venezuela was reversed two days later.