In this week’s segment, we discuss Canada’s role as a U.S. imperialist client state and how its image as a friendlier northern neighbor is contradicted by support for Israel’s genocide, increases in military spending and fossil fuel production, and by neoliberalism and racist domestic and immigration policies. But first, we have an analysis of the Trump administration's policy towards Africa, and the continuation of U.S. efforts to interfere in those nations' affairs, extract resources, and use African countries as deportation sites.
Legally protected lands across the Global South are becoming targets for capitalist exploitation, revealing conservation as a tool of modern imperial expansion.
When political energy is channeled into opposing a figurehead, that energy is diverted from the work of building the popular power needed to challenge the empire he merely leads.
The Cold War-era "strategy of tension" has evolved into a modern system of hybrid warfare targeting sovereign nations that challenge Western hegemony.
The arrest of a five-year-old has ignited the first major prisoner revolt inside a U.S. ICE detention center, exposing the difference between enforcement propaganda and reality.
The Palestinian village of Ras Ein al-Auja has held out against violent Israeli settlers – until now.
