Posts Tagged ‘colonialism’

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 […]

The struggle against colonialism: a review of ‘Why Palestine Matters’

Why Palestine Matters: The Struggle to End Colonialism Edited by Noushin Framke and Susan Landau 104 pp. The Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), $15.00 There is an adage that some of the most productive conversations at conferences often happen in hallways outside the meeting rooms.  The idea for Why Palestine Matters: The […]

Uprooting Colonialism: The Limitations Of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Above Photo: 1992, March in Ohlone lands Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. Declarations, Disconnect, & Decolonial Recuperation As momentum has accelerated for occupying forces to issue declarations of “Indigenous Peoples’ Day (IPD),” we can’t help but […]

AFGHANISTAN: “Colonialism Corrupts One Generation after Another in all Conquered Countries” ~ Andre Vltchek

Italian troops took over ancient Citadel in Herat City. @AndreVltchek Andre Vltchek Interview with Alessandro Bianchi, Chief Editor of Anti-Diplomatico Alessandro Bianchi: The geographic location of Afghanistan has always occupied a central role. The April peace talks between Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Russia and China seemed to have put an end to the persistent and dominant American presence […]

COMMENTARY: Africa-Israel Summit ‘Justifies Colonialism, Apartheid’

According to activist Razan Zuayter, a campaign organiser based in Jordan, the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad is seeking to point out to African countries Israel’s “dangerous” activities in the continent, such as its diamond trade, often illegally imported from Africa as revealed in a 2009 United Nations report, and its mistreatment of African minorities in Israel. “If […]

‘Literal Colonialism’: Blackwater Founder Calls For ‘American Viceroy’ To Rule Afghanistan

Displaying what one commentator called “sheer 19th century bloodlust and thirst for empire,” Erik Prince, founder of the private mercenary firm Blackwater, argued in The Wall Street Journal this week that the United States should deploy an “East India Company approach” in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that private contractors have a long record of abuse […]

“Literal Colonialism”: Blackwater Founder Calls For “American Viceroy” To Rule Afghanistan

By Jake Johnson Displaying what one commentator called “sheer 19th century bloodlust and thirst for empire,” Erik Prince, founder of the private mercenary firm Blackwater, argued in The Wall Street Journal this week that the United States should deploy an “East India Company approach” in Afghanistan. The country, he wrote, should be run […]

Israeli rights group: Israel whitewashes criminals

Days of Palestine, Jerusalem -Israeli human rights group B’Tselem accused on Wednesday the Israeli occupation military law enforcement system is “whitewash mechanism.” The organisation, which collects information and documents Israeli human rights violations against Palestinians, said the inefficiency of Israeli military mechanisms to provide justice for Palestinian victims led the organisation to suspend filing complaints […]

Cuban schools’ focus on ‘good values’ holds global lessons

Clive Kronenberg (TC) : Cuba’s education system is incredibly successful. But not much attention has been paid to the philosophical structure underpinning this system: the idea that education can be more effective, meaningful and successful if it’s informed, accompanied and guided by an appropriate values or belief system. José Martí’s teachings are found in all Cuban […]

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