Despite its massive military, the U.S. cannot rule the world by force of arms, said Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Duboisian scholar from Philadelphia. China’s regional neighborhood includes “three of the five largest economies in the world,” said Monteiro. Therefore, a war with China “would be like the U.S. shooting itself in the head.” A war with Iran, on the Persian Gulf, “would throw the world into a recession or depression.” These are “wars that the United States can’t win; wars that the American public don’t want; and wars that most of humanity would condemn as wars of aggression,” he said.
Its immeasurable mineral resources has made the Congo the victim of a long history of Western greed, plunder, and genocidal violence.
The U.S. departure from Afghanistan is an opportunity to end the corruption which made a 20-year long war a cash cow for the military industrial complex.
The U.S. departure from Afghanistan is a victory against imperialism.
Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau.
Census data show that gentrification is accelerating Black displacement.
