A Postcard from the Festival of Monsters
At UC Santa Cruz, we take monsters seriously.| CONTINGENT
In a sense, this piece follows on from last week’s post about Plaid Cymru betraying Welsh farmers with absurd claims that agriculture alone is responsible for the pollution in our rivers. We’ll meet again that Nazi-origined, anti-humanity crew of Globalist schemers in WWF, but also some interesting new faces. First, we head to Pembrokeshire. ◊ … Continue reading WWF War On Farmers Takes To The Sea!| Jac o' the North
On Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela will form an international volunteer brigade to confront any US intervention or aggression. The statement was made during a meeting of…| Abolition Media
Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.| NiCHE
Arctic melt images simplify climate crisis, erasing people, politics, and histories; Audrey Medaino-Tardif calls for plural visuals including Indigenous presence and knowledge.| NiCHE
Erie Canal’s 200th: engineering success, reshaped settlement, boosted trade, harmed Indigenous lands and ecosystems, linked U.S.–Canada waterways, now mostly recreational.| NiCHE
Guest entry by Lavanya Bhadana “Dilemma that India faced post-independence.” Source:- https://pin.it/5kKaSNaSA Most people believe that decolonisation in India ended in 1947 when the British finally departed Indian shores. But what if independence wasn’t merely about constitutions and flags? True decolonisation involved a reclaiming of the right to define development of our nation by our won people in our […]| Arthashastra
The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference. The post Borders Are War by Other Means appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Leaders from many countries condemned the USA and Israel at the UN General Assembly, demanding intervention in Gaza to save Palestinians from genocide. Diplomats walked out to protest Netanyahu. Latin America led the resistance. The post World leaders rebel against US & Israel: to save Gaza, they demand international intervention appeared first on Geopolitical Economy Report.| Geopolitical Economy Report
What we’re now seeing is Israel’s version of air-power colonialism, writes Juan Cole. By Juan Cole TomDispatch.com Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s nomination of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his hands already crimson with the blood of innocent Iraqis, to…Read more →| Consortium News
Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s Labour government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths. By Mark Curtis Declassified UK British declassified files show how Harold Wilson’s Labour government, together with the U.S.…Read more →| Consortium News
published by Jonathan Ball Cecil John Rhodes has always excited a great deal of heated passion and fierce debate. In his time, he was both revered and reviled, in South Africa and abroad. More recently, he has come to represent the ugly face of white supremacy and European colonialism, which manifested itself in the “Rhodes … Continue reading Book Reviews| Stidy's Eye
I hadn’t planned this, but I read something yesterday in the Globalists’ Welsh mouthpiece that got me digging, and one thing led to another. But I suppose the real story is that the fundamental scam of the ‘climate crisis’ has spawned a host of lies and con jobs that can only justify themselves through our … Continue reading ‘Wind Energy’: Where Truth Gets Blown Away| Jac o' the North
from Instagram Join us Indigenous Peoples’ Day weekend for a free teach-in on Andean resistance in Bolivia & Chile. Come learn, discuss, and take part in collaborative activities. Incredible flyer designed by @rat_maf Saturday, October 11 at 3pm Wooden Shoe Books| Philly Anti-Capitalist
from Mainstream Media The museum near Independence Hall and its Israeli flag display were vandalized with red paint twice last month. A worker washes off red paint last month from the first vandalism on the “The Weitzman Stands with Israel” banner and Israeli flag on the side of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish…| Philly Anti-Capitalist
Guest entry by Shreya Narula “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every year, many ex-colonies celeb…| Arthashastra
“Dahomey” narrates the Danxomèan treasures’ epic journey home. And yet, the film remains haunted by the visible and invisible human labor that made this homecoming—and its cinematic telling—possible.| Public Books
While Apple's controversial 'Crush' advertisement is about technological progress, this article argues that it represents a form of digital colonialism, where the compression of diverse, culturally significant creative tools into a single device reflects a historical pattern of devaluing cultural heritage in the name of a standardized vision of innovation.| Platypus
To the extent most people ever think about Charles, Earl Cornwallis, they think of him as portrayed in Mel Gibson’s film The Patriot. There he is an aged, somewhat hapless, conflicted military officer, ultimately defeated at Yorktown, whereupon he sails back to England in disgrace. Little of this is true, and his life after the War of Independence was full of distinguished service to England, which pushed his service in the colonies to the background. And as this excellent biography shows, ...| theworthyhouse.com
Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Europe, Japan, Korea, forcing them to move factories to USA, while BRICS creates multipolar world order. Economist Michael Hudson explains imperial strategy to exploit US allies.| Geopolitical Economy Report
Ice Geographies examines Arctic colonial politics, emphasizing ice as racialized geography, Indigenous knowledge, slowness, and questioning certainty in research practices.| NiCHE
Colonial Rule and Religious Resistance: My Research Project My habilitation project, ‘“Arming the Natives and Inspiring Them to Resist German Influence”: Functions of Religion in Colonial Rule and Indigenous Resistance in German East Africa and Tanganyika (1885–1961)’, explores how religion functioned both as a tool of colonial domination and as a means of indigenous resistance. My research examines the period between 1885 and 1961, when German and British authorities used Christia...| German Historical Institute London Blog
Intellectual and political disputes to-day Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) When: 10–12 June 2026Where: German Historical Institute Paris, Collège de France, Maison de la recherche de...| Dialog und Austausch
"Reverse moral exceptionalism” is a nationalistic tendency to insist on oneself as central to every event of significance on the world stage and thus p ...| antidotezine.com
Since August, federal mandates carried out against Washington D.C. and intensified policing have been escalating with both the federal and local governments making it clear that they are waging a domestic war on African (Black) working class and migrant diaspora people. This imposition is not only in the form of increased National Guard troops. Arrests, deportations, and raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surged in Washington, D.C. as part of the federal crackdown, leading to ...| Abolition Media
Marc James Carpenter— The American West is suffused with pioneer place-names. There are pioneer squares as gathering places, pioneer museums for children, pioneer statues looming over government buildings. Business names,... READ MORE| Yale University Press
by C.R.Yadu and Sahil Mehra* Within the discourse of Development Economics, the most widely accepted theory is that of ‘structural transformation’ (ST), which posits that, over time, non-agricultur…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Millions of women across the globe farm and look after land – yet are excluded from owning it, hurting their incomes, depriving them of wealth and undermining their other basic rights. Anandita Ghosh and Shivani Satija on a wide-ranging issue of the Oxfam-edited Gender and Development journal that not only examines structural obstacles to women owning land but also looks at broader themes, including the way deprivation of land rights adds to women’s care workload – and, crucially, how s...| frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk
April Zhu: Let’s start with the charges. UnHerd columnist Kat Rosenfeld wrote that we editors who resigned in protest had reached with our “hot little hands” for “the censor’s pen.” According to Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple, we were outraged by “the humane reflections of a Jewish woman seeking reconciliation and recovery in her […]| n+1Articles – n+1
By Rama Vivek Gulavani, Editor-in-Chief “We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, -a class of persons Indian in blood…| Arthashastra
Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.| Public Books
A review of a book exploring the history and meaning of the Arab Jews.| New Politics
Yuval Noah Hariri has written the White Man’s Burden for atheist tech fuckbois| indi.ca
While I wait for more information promised on the Siddiqi gang, eHarley Street, and a raft of other companies, here's a quickie I kind of stumbled upon after following the money trail when someone pointed me towards a piece in 'Welsh Government'-funded Nation.Cymru. ◊ WHERE WE AT? We're in Carmarthenshire, around Brechfa, between the A485,…| Jac o' the North
The contributors of the magazine convoke Indigenous perspectives from lands that have been exploited for the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki| We Make Money Not Art
My weapon is better My weapon is organic It is an organ, a pulse, a history| n+1
The political and media establishment has finally begun to acknowledge Palestinian suffering, but this shift remains hollow until those complicit in Israel’s genocide are truly exposed. By Anthony Hayward Declassified UK Some 21 months into Israel’s genocide, Palestinian suffering is only| Consortium News
By Urvika Mehra, Editor-in-Chief The theme for this month’s articles on Ecotalker is Decolonising Development. Before we assess the ‘colonisation’ of, and subsequent efforts to decolonise, development, it is crucial to understand what development is. The term ‘economic development’ gained traction in the 1950s when most countries belonging to the Global South were in the […]| Arthashastra
“Others’ profit, our downfall? Lithium and other metal mines, as well as catastrophic pollution, are coming to us! It’s time for united resistance!” – environmentalist sign in Lopare, Majevica. Author’s photo. International mining companies, with the collaboration of corrupt local politicians, ravage the hills and rivers of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Local and regional construction companies add to the despoilment of the rivers by building mini-hydroelectric dams by the dozens. Contrar...| Lefteast
On the eastern edge of Te Ika-a-Māui, in the port city settlers renamed Gisborne, Ngāti Oneone are holding their ground. They’ve set up camp beside Te Pā Eketū Shed on Hīrini Street, next to the urupā and under the gaze of Titirangi maunga. A fire burns there every day and night, a simple, steady flame […]| The Polar Bl@st
The arrival of Christianity in Aotearoa brought not only a new religion but an entirely foreign cosmology that challenged, distorted, and often undermined the spiritual and philosophical foundations of te ao Māori. The clash between these two worldviews remains one of the most profound cultural confrontations in Aotearoa’s colonial history. The fundamental incompatibilities between the […]| The Polar Bl@st
Somehow this is still happening.| Upworthy
I have devoted my life to Christian missions. Am I guilty of cultural assault? My job is to hire, onboard, coach, and train new missionaries. Sometimes it’s a bit disconcerting to work in a profession that so many people hate. A couple of weeks ago, I came across an article from The Guardian: “Missionaries using […] The post Am I a Missionary Colonizer? first appeared on Amy Medina.| Amy Medina
Indonesians fighting against exploitation of their land for palm oil must confront both powerful corporate interests and an extraordinary level of state control over land that can be traced back to the colonial era. Here, we share observations from those who took part in a recent panel discussion about palm oil and land rights*, inspired by a hard-hitting new documentary, Colonial Debris. The post You can’t talk about palm oil with...| Views & Voices
Gappah, Petina "Out of Darkness, Shining Light" - 2019 Of course, we all know about David Livingstone's search for the source of the river N...| momobookblog.blogspot.com
Economist Michael Hudson: Western powers designed international system to benefit American corporations at expense of Global South, how to resist US neocolonialism.| Geopolitical Economy Report
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“Securing the first permanent, universal, and immediate abolition of slavery was Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s greatest success and is his legacy.”| Public Books
21 July 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-49 | Website: rjissf.org | X: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: John Krige Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre-Production Copy…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Too long, too hard, too loose, too crass: these are the problems that abridgment seeks to fix. They are only problems to a writer’s enemies: politicians, skimmers, benefactors, and prudes. (For now we will spare critics, editors, translators, educators, and, naturally, other writers.) Who, then, abridged The Obscene Bird of Night—and what were they trying to fix?| n+1Articles – n+1
Written by Aaron Su. This article discusses the crucial role of photography in consolidating a liberal multicultural order in Taiwan by obscuring dissent through visual depictions of harmonious Ind…| Taiwan Insight
Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.| Spectre Journal
An SCGA Insight Paper - this report explores what we can learn from history and anthropology to better understand today’s migration policies and policy discourse.| Scottish Council On Global Affairs
Daughters of Palestine is both an urgent testimony from Palestinian Christians and a timeless story of resilience.| EerdWord
Economist Michael Hudson: China created alternative to Western neoliberal order, how Global South can challenge rent extraction of US financial colonialism.| Geopolitical Economy Report
This third contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Mohamed Sesay. Mohamed is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the African Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York University in Canada. His research and teaching interests are in development, transitional justice, international criminal justice, rule of law, customary justice, … Continue reading Governing the Feminist Peace to Deflect from Decolonial Peace in Africa| The Disorder Of Things
The Newfoundland and Labrador Coat of Arms is a relic of colonialism, and removing the word “savages” won’t change that.| Analysis Archives – The Independent
What makes a work of art culturally significant? Sometimes it’s the story it tells. Other times, it’s what it dares to question — whose voices are heard, which histories are preserved, how identity is shaped and represented (or not). In this selection of famous art with cultural themes, topics and issues take many forms: from belonging and... The post Famous Art with Cultural Themes: 15 Works to Explore Identity, Heritage, and Belonging appeared first on Art Sprouts. Related posts: Ex...| Art Sprouts
Discover the transformative power of art in creating social change. Learn how art teachers can inspire activism and teach art for social change. Enhance your art education by understanding the broader context of art and its ability to address social issues. Explore the ways in which art can serve as a powerful tool for advocating social justice and empowering marginalized voices.| Art Sprouts
Find out what waste colonialism and what you can do to do better for yourself, your community, the environment and others worldwide.| Sneakers4Good
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X, his thoughts still light the path to freedom.| San Francisco Bay View
I saw the outline of the Americas from space. North America was belching out strands of fat pearls, diamonds, gold and silver coins, swimming pools, cars, high-end watches, like the whole landmass was a slot machine with thousands of volcano-size receptacles. The coastline was rimmed with mounted machine guns, thousands of them, pointing outward. South America was made of mud, and I could see all layers of Earth, and the bones and skulls in it. The raised line of the Andes was not mountains, ...| n+1Articles – n+1
Mental health workers clear land for a detox camp as Innu fight drug crisis| The Independent
Yvette Michel says compassion is key with those who are dealing and want help| The Independent
Monica Macansantos traces memory, legacy, and identity through the food her father left behind| Electric Literature
This article examines the history of a former Rhodesia Railways carriage in the Science Museum Group’s collection to ask what stories it can tell beyond the narrative of its return. The article argues that interpretation of the carriage since its repatriation has focused on the story of its return, while gaps in the knowledge of its operational life – including the experiences of passengers and the impacts of the railway’s labour hierarchy – have been overlooked.| Science Museum Group Journal
BJP is saddened to hear that photographer and visual artist Nona Faustine has passed away. In celebration of her life and work, we are republishing our interview on White Shoes, her alternative history of the USA and its slave trade| 1854 Photography
Donald Trump's expansion of migrant detention in Guantánamo Bay follows years of torture. Cuba always fought for land freed of US imperialism| Geopolitical Economy Report
In an effort to start to broaden the voices of antifascists, we are doing interview across the radical spectrum to open up space to expanding what we understand as resistance. Kevin Tucker is a “Primal Anarchist” who takes inspiration from hunter-gatherer societies and looks to take on many of the inequities inherent in settler colonialism … Continue reading Colonialism, Green Resistance, and Fighting Eco-Fascism: An Interview With Eco-Anarchist Kevin Tucker→| Anti-Fascist News
Millions of women in the Global South earn a pittance, own no wealth or land and do far more unpaid care than men – and much of their condition today can be traced back to the economic devastation caused by both colonialism and the extractive economic system it created. That’s why any plan for redress must include justice for women. In the latest blog in our World Economic Forum series, Lurit Yugusuk and Hazel Birungi set out five ways to do that…| frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk
This ethnic cleansing plan is being presented as a humanitarian solution to tragic circumstances, when in reality the U.S. and Israel purposely destroyed the enclave. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley reading this article. Grinning like the cat that ate the c| Consortium News
Abba Solomon commends Peter Beinart’s radical re-conception of Jewish life in Palestine in his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. By Abba Solomon Z Network The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then re| Consortium News
The world looks set to see five trillionaires within a decade — and more billionaires are now being created through inheritance than entrepreneurialism. Anjela Taneja and Harry Bignell introduce Oxfam’s 2025 Davos report, which reveals the scale of unearned wealth — and how those riches are built on a colonial legacy of exploitative global systems.| frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk
At inauguration, US President Donald Trump promised to "expand our territory", invoked colonialist "Manifest Destiny", vowed to take over Panama Canal. He hinted at military force to colonize Greenland| Geopolitical Economy Report
Hamid Dabashi's critique of Hegel as a racist philosopher misrepresents Hegel’s ideas, and this dismissal serves exclusionary regional ideologies, marginalizing the Kurds and Jews.| Telos Press
Anna explores the recent commentary surrounding British Reparations to former colonies, and argues its a long overdue commitment for Kier Starmer to make.| The Gryphon
It’s happening right now, in front of our eyes| indi.ca
Occlusion is a term that describes a technique of erasure. Here, I show how occlusion works specifically in International Development discourses to set the terms of morality, dominance, and legitimacy in relation to their beneficiaries.| Discard Studies
This past July, Robert L. Allen passed away at 82. As an undergraduate student, Allen had a very large impact on me. I took three courses with Dr. Allen, and I still remember the enthusiastic way he would say my name: “Ah, Thomas!” My appreciation of Allen’s scholarship and influence has continually burgeoned as I…| Blog of the APA
This year’s Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and […]| Social Science Space
From the article: Are Tibetans Indigenous? The Political Stakes and Potentiality of the Translation of Indigeneity How does settler-colonial imperialism operate in Asia, and what are the ways in wh…| lhakardiaries.com
Companies have legal personhood, limited liability, and it’s not going well| indi.ca
Map of Africa from 1583 The default unit of analysis for many economists when dealing with national economics is the state. Yet, in economics textbooks ‘the state’ is often assumed to be a neutral …| Developing Economics
If human civilization begins to expand into space, will colonists feel loyalty to their country, their planet, or Elon Musk? The post Outer Space Treaties Didn’t Anticipate the Privatization of Space Travel. Can They Be Enforced? appeared first on Pacific Standard.| Pacific Standard
PARCOE is a grassroots alliance working in Europe to amplify the voices of Afrikan Communities of Reparations Interest all over the world. For us in PARCOE, there are spatial dimensions to reparato…| The Occupied Times
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the author’s book Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula. It is posted here with permission. A widely accepted contemporary belief, prevalent throughout American secondary and higher education, is that post-1800 Western colonialism was an unmitigated evil. Notably, this does not hold […]| Minding The Campus
By Serena Natile and Joy Malala Over the last few years ‘decolonisation’ has become an increasingly popular subject in Western academia. Broadly considered the process of recognising and undoing th…| Developing Economics
This handbook explores the ways in which histories of colonialism and postcolonial thought and theory cast light on our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world and the discipline of Classics.| Archaeology Wiki
From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes...| Chiapas Support Committee
Liberals call for Uyghur rights but support Israel’s genocide, while tankies clamor for the liberation of Palestine but dismiss the labor camps in Xinjiang as a hoax by US imperialism. Both h…| Chuang
Anti-colonial and post-colonial politics have shaped global understandings of the Israel-Palestine conflict for decades, beyond the narrow vision of many Western countries| The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
By Illia Ilin. The recent history of Ukraine can be metaphorically described as a journey to break away from the abusive "triune Russian people" family and reconnect with the democratic "European peoples" family. This long process of decolonization has been ongoing for over 30 years and signifies the reclamation of Ukrainian territories, history, and identity by the Ukrainian people. This article will explore the family metaphors of (de)colonization of Russia and unified Europe in relation to...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
The processes designed to “soften” Upper Canada’s disease landscape—such as agriculture and settlement—were also tools of settler colonialism.| NiCHE
I’ve recently been learning about the failed attempts by the Scottish ruling class to start a new colony in the last 1600s and how this bankrupted them. It was financial ruin caused by this that led to their agreeing (being bribed?) to the formal union of Scotland with England and Wales in 1707 in exchange […]| Three Acres And A Cow
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim confrontation at Komagata Maru sign unveiling a reminder from the local anti-colonial Panjabi movement that colonial violence is not past tense| themainlander.com
The transformation of the Uyghur-majority lands of Southern Xinjiang known as Alte Sheher, or the Six Cities, came in waves, first in the 1950s when systematic political changes to Uyghur and Kazakh social life began, and then in the 1990s when resource extraction infrastructure, industrial farming, Han settlers, and the Chinese market changed all aspects of Uyghur life. An elderly Uyghur farmer in Khotan I interviewed in 2015 illustrated this process using the lives of trees as an example. ...| art of life in chinese central asia
Since the beginning of this month, Puerto Ricans have been fighting against the privatization of their energy grid by LUMA Energy. Images and videos of Borikéns the streets of San Juan demanding an…| ANTICONQUISTA
