Tag: imperialism

“The Expansion of the White Races” By Theodore Roosevelt

2 August 2021|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi

US President Theodore Roosevelt has been hailed for his progressive policies such as the creation of national parks and “progressiveness” and his anti-trust policies. Less discussed was his overt and shocking levels of racism and staunch imperialism. This is perhaps no better illustrated by his Address at the celebration of the African Diamond Jubilee of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. January 18, 1909

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US-Russia Nuclear Treaty Only First Step in Ensuring ‘Future Existence of Our Species’ Professor Kuznick says

1 February 2021|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi

The total number of nuclear weapons that Russia and the US can possess was limited by New START, signed between the two countries in 2010. The treaty would have expired on 5 February 2021, had the Biden administration not agreed to extend it for another five years.

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UK Complicity in Sri Lankan War Crimes Formed Part of ‘Securing its Imperial Interests’, Expert Says

8 October 2020|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi
Britain’s complicity in war crimes in Sri Lanka have been brought into the spotlight by a new book by investigative journalist Phil Miller about the mercenary firm Keenie Meenie.

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(Part 1) Pentagon is “demarcating the highway to war with China”, warns ex-US Colonel

13 MAY 2019|THE INTERREGNUM|MOHAMED ELMAAZI

The US Department of Defense (DOD) recently published its annual report for Congress about China’s  “military and security developments”. National security and foreign policy expert Lawrence Wilkerson warned that the report is a “budget ploy”, which is part of a larger and more dangerous aggressive US posture, that sees China not only as a competitor but also as a threat to vital US national security interests. He says this world-view is setting the stage for war.

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Venezuela under assault: socialism, imperialism and oil

2 February 2019 | MEDIA DIVERSIFIED| Mohamed Elmaazi

In recent years the Venezuela government has found itself in conflict with right-wing opposition forces, but also with genuine grassroots organisers who want to carry the “Bolivarian revolution” forward. Thus democratising policies under Chavez have stalled. Mohamed Elmaazi details the steps that have led to ordinary Venezuelans being caught between a rock and a hard place.

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Leaked US documents reveal a warped vision of regime change in Syria

28 September 2018|The Canary|Mohamed Elmaazi

Featured image via US military intelligence video

Leaked US documents have revealed Washington’s vision of regime change in Syria. And it’s not pretty. Planners never thought democratic opponents to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad stood a chance, according to a 2011 US military intelligence assessment.  The US Marine Corps’ (USMC) Intelligence Department and private intelligence firm Stratfor jointly produced this August 2011 assessment. Journalist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed discovered this document among a trove of leaked emails published by WikiLeaks.

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