German officers arrive in Southwest Africa from Berlin to deal with the Herero, whose rebellion has died down. Ordinarily a colonial state would now move to negotiations. But Gen. von Trotter had no intention of negotiating or compromising. The Herero were now doomed. Refusing to negotiate in good faith is common among settler colonialists. Being […]
Alice Walker: Palestinians face Oppression Much worse than Jim Crow of Old South
On Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!”, celebrated novelist and Pulitzer-Prize winner Alice Walker points out that Palestinians in the Occupied Territories under Israeli control face conditions much worse than those suffered by African-Americans in the Old South under Jim Crow. For more on Israeli checkpoints on the West Bank and the circumscribed lives of Occupied Palestinians, […]
Netanyahu 2002: Iraq has Centrifuges ‘the size of Washing Machines’ to Produce A-Bomb
Israeli PM Binyamin “Chicken Little” Netanyahu tried to scaremonger about Iraq in 2002, as his contribution to the Anglo-American war of aggression on that country. “there is no question whatsoever,” Netanyahu said, “that Saddam” was seeking nuclear weapons. He said that Israeli intelligence reported to him that Russian scientists and North Korea were on site […]
Annals of Settler Colonialism (3) German Namibia #savagesunite
The rebellion of some among the much-abused Herero people is transformed by the German authorities and settlers into a race war and a pretext for seizing their lands. The logic of settler colonialism involves a ratcheting up of tensions that is always exploited to the advantage of the colonizer. The indigenous population is “savages,” whereas […]
It’s Psychological Warfare, Stupid: Why Netanyahu Really wants to Destroy Iran
The Israeli Likud Party’s cover story for why it wants to draw the United States into a war with Iran makes no real sense. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been predicting an Iranian nuclear bomb since 1992 (a time when Iran had no nuclear program at all), and he has been wrong for 15 years […]
Cartoon: Netanyahu Iran Bomb Warnings fall Flat at UN
Colbert Report: Obama’s Ottoman Conspiracy
Steve Colbert on Rep. Louie Gohmert’s crackpot allegation that Obama is resurrecting the Ottoman Empire The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
Annals of Settler Colonialism (2) German Namibia #savagesunite
An advertising campaign by bigots in San Francisco and New York asks us to choose, in Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank, between the “civilized man” and “savages.” Likewise, the German Empire posed the same question– the right lay with the ‘civilized’ German settlers in what is now Namibia, not with the Herero ‘savages’ (as […]
Is Paul Ryan right that Obama’s Foreign Policy is Blowing up in Our Faces?
Paul Ryan knows nothing about the world or foreign affairs. I presume he may have been abroad at some point somewhere. I don’t know. As is usual in American politics, however, cavernous ignorance is no bar to holding forth, if it is not in fact a qualification. After all, ignorance is compatible with untainted national […]
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