Tag: Global politics

  • A Month’s Notice: Why Burkina Faso Ordered French Troops out of the Country

    A Month’s Notice: Why Burkina Faso Ordered French Troops out of the Country

    Though it was clear that Burkina Faso was eventually going to follow in the footsteps of Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR), Ouagadougou’s decision to break military ties with France was not as simple as media sound bites want us to believe. The conventional wisdom is that these countries are walking away from their […]

  • The United States Wants to Make Taiwan the Ukraine of the East

    Kawayan De Guia (Philippines), Nature of Currency, 2017. On 2 February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they agreed to expand the US military presence in the country. In a joint statement, the two governments agreed to ‘announce their plans […]

  • The US Empire is Starting to Fall Apart

    The US Empire is Starting to Fall Apart

    In order to understand why, the nature of imperialism, and thus of all empires, needs first to be explained (especially because almost no one knows about this): Whereas a merely domestic dictatorship is no danger to other nations, an international dictatorship — or “empire” — is a danger to other nations, because every empire (i.e., […]

  • In Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the Answer is Self-Determination Not Subjugation

    In Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the Answer is Self-Determination Not Subjugation

    Image credit: Hrayr Badalyan Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), a self-governing enclave in the South Caucasus, remains under total blockade by Azerbaijan. Over 120,000 Armenians—including 30,000 children—are on the brink of an unspeakable humanitarian catastrophe as food runs scarce, medicine cabinets fall bare, and children now suffer malnutrition. A single mountain road connects Artsakh to Armenia; it is […]

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