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Tag: Slavery

  • Two Hundred Fifty Years Since the Declaration of Independence

    Next year will mark 250 years since the “official” date assigned to the rebellion against British sovereignty in its North American colony, popularly known as the “American Revolution.” In early July of 1776, a number of prominent figures and leaders of colonial resistance to the authority of the English Crown met in the port city […]

  • If You Were a Korean Patriot

    Given the massive changes in geopolitics brought about by the isolationist and bizarre behavior of the Trump administration, activists and scholars have a major role to play in drawing attention to the dangers and possibilities for peace of this embryonic new world order. It is very unfortunate then, that one of the most crucial components […]

  • Predatory Culture and the Nasty Naked Ape

    Why did humans, who lived for 40,000 years as egalitarian hunter-gatherers, become farmers and abandon equality for a dominance hierarchy permeated with all kinds of nastiness, including war, slavery, and exploitation?   It has remained a mystery why, ten thousand years ago, as farmers, most of humanity moved to social structures dominated by a tiny minority, […]

  • Law, Not Crime, Has Come From South of the Border

    Not so much criminals as the foundations of the rule of law — that is what has infiltrated the United States from Latin America. That seems to be a major thread running through Greg Grandin’s wonderful new history of the hemisphere, America, América: A New History of the New World. It’s a book you can dive back […]

  • Democracy or Plutocracy?

    Democracy or Plutocracy?

    Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at its founding, was somewhat more democratic than its contemporaries.  In the […]

  • Philadelphia and the Darkside of Liberty

    Philadelphia and the Darkside of Liberty

    This planned investigation, titled Philadelphia and The Darkside of Liberty, is a deliberate examination into the cultural, economic, and sociopolitical foundations which undergirded America’s early colony and its newly birthed land of liberty’s class-stratified slave society – combined with a closer look at the contradictions which laid within the notions and/or paradoxes of early American equality, […]

  • Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program is a Massive Violation of Human Rights

    Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program is a Massive Violation of Human Rights

    On August 11, 2022, workers in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) penned an open letter about their experiences in the program. “As it currently stands,” they wrote, “the [SAWP] is systematic slavery.” The article was written by Jamaican workers, but they asserted that migrants of other nationalities had faced similarly dehumanizing experiences. “It feels […]

  • Britain Did Ban the Slave Trade, Mr Musk, but It Was 12.5m Slaves Too Late

    In Britain slave owners were compensated for having slaves. But Britain was the biggest driver of the slave trade for over a century. The post Britain Did Ban the Slave Trade, Mr Musk, but It Was 12.5m Slaves Too Late first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • “What Did You Learn in School Today?”

    “What Did You Learn in School Today?”

    circa 1830: A slave auction in America. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images) Through the centuries, the Republic that eventuated in North America has maintained a maximum of chutzpah and minimum of awareness in forging a creation myth that sees slavery and dispossession not as foundational but as inimical to the nation now known as the United […]

  • Victory for the Disposables: The Sentencing of the Hindujas

    In his seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concepts.  In its insidious, older form, one focused on the concept of natal alienation, slaves were chattels and assets, outrightly owned.  Each slave system was distinct and protean, if marked by certain universal features. The universal feature of ownership, at least […]

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