Note: There is no consensus on a real change of the world capitalist system which justifies to call the current era an era of globalism which I estimate its’ beginning in the last quarter of the Twentieth century. Many insist …
Author: masadarbid
The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War was Won, by Pepe Escobar
The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War was Won
Following the Damascus-Kurdish alliance, Syria may become the biggest defeat for the Central Intelligence Agency since Vietnam, says Pepe Escobar.
By Pepe Escobar
What is happening in Syria, following …
A Globalized Islamic Terrorist Settler Colonialism, by Adel Samara, Occupied Palestine
Even in the phenomenon of settler colonization the Politicized Religion Islamic Forces (PRIF) comes too late behind other forms of settler colonization, both western Christian politicized Religions in many continents and for sure after Jewish settler colonialism in Palestine. The …
Labor Divided, by Timothy Kerswell
Zak Cope, Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2012), 387 pages, $20.00, paperback.
“Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for …
The Other Face of Rashida’s Village … Resistance, by Dr. Adel Samara, Occupied Palestine
“Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets! ”
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867
With relative fear even without greeting, she asked: Where is the home of Rashida Tlaib?
I realized that she is a Zionist journalist. She is …
Once Again Chomsky and Achcar Provide a Service to the US Global Dictatorship, By Stephen Gowans
Noam Chomsky recently co-authored an op-ed in The New York Times, portraying the embattled Venezuelan government as an arbitrary undemocratic state, and calling upon it “to liberate all political prisoners, both military and civilian.” The occasion for the op-ed was …
Toward the Formation of a Transnational Alliance of Working and Oppressed Peoples, By Samir Amin and Firoze Manji
Samir Amin (1931–2018) was director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and the author of many books. Firoze Manji is the founder and former editor of Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press. He set up Daraja Press and is …
Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End, by Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik
Harry Magdoff’s The Age of Imperialism is a classic work that shows how postwar political decolonization does not negate the phenomenon of imperialism. The book has two distinct aspects. On the one hand, it follows in V. I. Lenin’s footsteps …
Arundhati Roy on India’s Elections: “A Mockery of What Democracy Is Supposed to Be”, By Samuel Earle
The author and activist talks to The New Republic about Narendra Modi, the decimation of India’s opposition, and the way forward.
“In India,” Arundhati Roy wrote in 2002, “if you are a butcher or a genocidist who happens to be …
Politicized Religion: Old and Global, by Adel Samara, Occupied Palestine
Key words: Political Islam (PI), Politicized Religion (PR), Zionist Ashkenazi Regime (ZAR), Counter-Revolution (CR)
One of the biggest delusions, largely circulated and recently used terms, is Political Islam (PI) as a term targeting one religion by itself in an era …