Tag: Political science

  • The Neocolonial Ambitions of NATO Countries

    The Neocolonial Ambitions of NATO Countries

    The term neocolonialism first appeared in the mid-twentieth century and was used to describe the continuing control of colonial powers (Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy) over other nominally independent states, especially their colonies in Africa. In the 21st century, the meaning of the term neocolonialism has expanded and is now used to […]

  • Artificial Intelligence, Crime and Prisons: Mahmood Revisits the Panopticon

    When does the rot start in a politician?  For some, it commences the moment election to office is confirmed.  Others need to become cabinet ministers before being wholly blighted.  UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood may provide a classic case study.  Given that security matters fall within her purview, it was probably too much to expect […]

  • Beyond “We the People”: Rethinking Democracy

    At its best, democracy implies collective self-rule: the idea that people should have real power over the conditions of their lives. Yet democracy has often functioned less as a lived practice and more as a legitimizing language—invoked to authorize states, consolidate authority, or justify exclusion behind claims of popular consent. I am not a historian, […]

  • Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now

    This is the first of 4+1 TFF-created idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the United States and, in both the short and long term, help catalyse a worldwide nonviolent resistance to what many observers describe as the Trump administration’s uniquely confrontational, destructive and world-threatening policies. These portfolios outline what governments and citizens […]

  • Why Are Chronically Low-performing Charter Schools Renewed?

    Why Are Chronically Low-performing Charter Schools Renewed?

    The easy answer is greed, profit, and kickbacks. But how are such actions undertaken so frequently? One of the most fundamental rationales put forward decades ago by charter school advocates for why charter schools should exist is the so-called “accountability-for-results” bargain. The basic “logic” here is that traditional public schools are “unaccountable failing monopolies” controlled […]

  • A Protest That Kinda Wasn’t

    A Protest That Kinda Wasn’t

    If the first two weeks of January are any indication, the United States is in for a helluva lot more protests and rallies. In fact, unless the current regime in the White House and their cronies turn over a small forest of new leaves real soon, the price of poster board futures is going to […]

  • “Peace Board” Is Another Brick in His Personal Occidental Empire

    Original photo by FoxNews There are moments in political life when the surface events are so loud, so chaotic, so distracting that they obscure the deeper shift taking place beneath them. We focus on the headlines, the personalities, the daily provocations — and miss the architecture being built in the background. But every once in […]

  • Trump Taking Greenland Would Be the End of NATO – senior analyst

    Trump Taking Greenland Would Be the End of NATO – senior analyst

    The US president’s push to acquire the island follows a “long and complex historical tradition of American territorial expansion,” Mats Nilsson has told RT Protesters on City Square during a protest in support of Greenland on January 17, 2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark. © Martin Sylvest Andersen/Getty Images US President Donald Trump’s acquisition of Greenland without Denmark’s […]

  • Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism

    Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism

    As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are […]

  • My Dream for BRICS and its Critics

    My Dream for BRICS and its Critics

    Orientation With the recent kidnapping of President Maduro by Yankee imperialists, I wonder about how BRICS nations and other countries sympathetic to them such as North Korea and Iran will respond. Venezuela has made an attempt to join BRICS and clearly they are in the socialist camp so I would expect it would be especially […]

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