Geopolitical Outlook

  There are very real and legitimate criticisms to make about billionaire, Microsoft founder, and outspoken Malthusian, Bill Gates. He does not need to be a mustache-twirling, cartoonish villain in order to be considered evil. He has been at the forefront of pushing further privatization and destroying whatever is left of New York's public sector; in particular, he has been attacking New York's public schools and teachers unions for several years now, while using his charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to enrich and advance private schools . He is also one of the world's leading funders of privatized healthcare in West Africa . And along with other NGOs such as Oxfam, the Gates Foundation acts as a means for the capitalist-imperialist class to leverage debt onto African nations by lending them money at unreasonably high rates of interest, bleeding the continent dry economically as Wall Street accumulates over half of its wealth and holds back its devel...

The first round of U.S.-British airstrikes on Baghdad on March 3, 2003, marking the beginning of the 2003 U.S. war on Iraq. How soon will we start hearing the likes of Extinction Rebellion, and other neo-Malthusianists, echoing the infamous words of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who said that the 500,000 Iraqi children killed by U.S. sanctions was "worth it"? It's only a matter of time that they will, and we should not put it past them to do so. Just a few months leading up to the U.S.-backed right-wing coup in Bolivia, they were already making calls to oust Evo Morales and were, amongst all things, blaming him for the Amazon forest fires (even though he was actively helping to put them out) and using them as a pretext for imperialist intervention. According to modern-day, vacuous, and 'woke' eco-Malthusianists, independent sovereign nations (i.e. Cuba, Syria, the DPRK, and Nicaragua), who dare to defy the global dictatorship of the U...

Sabaa Bahrat Square in Damascus, Syria. The following below is an addendum to and expansion of the second paragraph of the previous blog entry, " Geopolitical Context Matters pt. 2 - Slouching Towards Syria ". Generally speaking, the West -- but especially America -- is a bastion of ignorance when it comes to the Arab and Muslim world, with two extremes: the right-wing who see Islam as a race (rather than a religion) and a civilizational threat and equate all Muslims with Osama bin Laden. While the liberals and the 'left' also see Islam as a race and think that Wahhabism is just a mere expression of victimhood. Contrary to a popular narrative that is uncritically accepted by Western liberals and leftists, Wahhabism is not an expression of victimhood. Sunni Muslims are also not inherently or naturally predisposed to such an ideology. While racism, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiment is rife with far-right circles who take a racially-charged approach and t...

Illustration by political commentator and cartoonist, Bill Purkasthaya. Original image found here . Geopolitically-illiterate radlibs in the West still seem to be under the delusion that the Kurdish YPG and PKK -- nothing more than just another set of U.S.-backed terrorist proxy forces -- are the "most oppressed-est", matriarchal-pantheist, utopic peoples like the blue Na'vi people, which are fictional sentient extraterrestrial humanoids found in the film Avatar . Supposed Kurdish "victimhood" is quite the fashionable trend in many Western "progressive" circles these days (despite it being wholly ahistorical and largely exaggerated or outright fictitious), so much so that they are angry at the thought of U.S. troops pulling out of Syria and ending support for the Kurdish Contras even though it should be seen as a positive. The Syrian Arab Republic are the real effective fighting force against ISIS, not the Kurds (an imperialist propaganda constr...

Hollywood celebrities invest in stocks and bonds, accumulating capital in various ways, and have ownership in certain markets. They are not productive workers and do not actually create or generate any value. In fact, their disproportionately high wages come from the musicians who play the instruments,  those who do the sound-engineering, and those who write their songs for them -- if they are singers; in which case, it helps their brand if they place their names in the list of songwriters, even if they wrote little to none of the content. If they are Hollywood actors, it comes from those who write their scripts and work on the set production. Not only that, but the surplus value that is generated comes from consumers who buy their products. And if they have clothing lines and other merchandises attached to their names, they often rely on superexploitative sweatshop labour in Third World countries. Of course, there are some famous entertainers who don't even do anything th...

Watch the above video by Jason Unruhe on Maoist Rebel News where he comments on how identity politics divides the left.

Ben Norton recently published an article on The Grayzone  titled " New NATO-approved US monument honors fascist Lithuanian Nazi collaborator as anti-Soviet hero " (which I highly recommend reading). In this article, Norton comments on the monument that was recently unveiled in Chicago, which honours Lithuanian Nazi collaborator and unabashed anti-Soviet war hawk, Adolfas Ramanauskas (a.k.a. "Vanagas"). The ceremony for the unveiling, held on May 4th, honours Ramanauskas as a "freedom fighter" and a "hero", as Norton writes, Lithuania’s state-funded Genocide and Resistance Research Centre has spent the past nearly three decades fueling Holocaust revisionism by portraying Nazi-collaborating Lithuanian fascists who murdered Jews in the Holocaust as anti-communist resistance heroes, while depicting Jewish anti-fascist partisans as war criminals; and by advancing the “double genocide” theory that falsely equates Soviet atrocities with Nazi cr...

Below is an English translation of a 1936 article written by Nadezhda Krupskaya, the wife of Vladimir Lenin and a fellow Bolshevik revolutionary figure. She served as the Soviet Union's Deputy Minister of Education from 1929 until her death in 1939. This article is a reflection on Lenin, Stalin, Trotskyites, the Second International, and building socialism. She always did have a lot of respect for Joseph Stalin and it shows in this written piece; but it is not the only highlight of the article nor is it the only talking point. She talks about the hard work and dedication that went into building the Soviet Republic as well, and the early stages of developing a post-Tsarist Russia which had previously been a backward society that was seriously lagging behind in terms of technology and industry. She also provides a great deal of criticism of the Second International and its defense of Trotsky.  Now of course, neither Krupskaya nor her husband (who also criticized Leon Trotsky a g...

Minnesota's Democratic representative and Congresswoman  Ilhan Omar has been making headlines lately because of the seemingly "anti-establishment" remarks she made in Washington and has become popular among some Western 'progressives', including feminist circles. Her comments included: criticizing AIPAC, calling out the state of Israel for its treatment of Palestinians (and rightly so), and calling Barack Obama a "pretty face who got away with murder". That is, until she backtracked -- as she usually does, which shouldn't be surprising -- and proclaimed herself to be an " Obama fan ". More recently, however, she made the following Tweet : Some anti-imperialist critics say that she's a Muslim Brotherhood-controlled opposition or spokesperson, which would not be too farfetched. Here, she is perpetuating the lies used to justify the United States' dirty war on Syria; namely, that the foreign-shipped, head-chopping "mo...

Transgenders are officially banned from serving in the U.S. military. This is a good thing for the anti-imperialist cause because the less recruitment the U.S. military has, the better it is for the rest of the world, especially for the victims of imperialism. Having said that, the ban should also be extended to the following: women, black people, brown people, gays, disabled persons, heterosexuals, whites... or rather, everyone . Of course, not everyone is celebrating this small, tiny victory. Unsurprisingly, liberal 'social justice warrior' groups such as the organizers of the Women's March on Washington took to Twitter to vent about how " devastating " the news was: Nothing says peak identity politics or peak Brzezinski school of thought like placing more energy and value into the frivolousness of "equal representation". Obviously, that is to be expected from liberals. But, once again, the self-identified "radical" leftists in ...