#imperialism

“European opulence is literally a scandal for it was built on the backs of slaves, it fed on the blood of slaves, and owes its very existence to the soil and subsoil of the underdeveloped world. Europe's well-being and progress were built with the sweat and corpses of blacks, Arabs, Indians, and Asians. This we are determined never to forget.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

#socialism #colonialism #racism #imperialism #anarchism #quotes

“The United States won. Here in Indonesia, you got what you wanted, and around the world, you got what you wanted.
How did we win, I asked.
You killed us.”
― Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

#socialism #imperialism #indonesia

"Since September, the Trump administration has conducted an undeclared war in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, killing scores of civilians. The Intercept is chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike.

The administration insists the attacks are permitted because the U.S. is engaged in “non-international armed conflict” with “designated terrorist organizations,” or DTOs. President Donald Trump has justified the attacks, in a War Powers report to Congress, under his Article II constitutional authority as commander in chief of the U.S. military and claimed to be acting pursuant to the United States’ inherent right of self-defense as a matter of international law. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel has also produced a classified opinion that provides legal cover for the lethal strikes.

Experts in the laws of war and members of Congress, from both parties, say the strikes are illegal extrajudicial killings because the military is not permitted to deliberately target civilians — even suspected criminals — who do not pose an imminent threat of violence. The summary executions are a significant departure from standard practice in the long-running U.S. war on drugs, in which law enforcement agencies arrested suspected drug smugglers.

The Pentagon has repeatedly withheld information on the attacks from members of Congress and the American public, despite mounting questions from lawmakers about the legality of these deadly strikes.

So The Intercept is publishing a strike tracker documenting America’s newest war."

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/17/trump-boat-strikes-death-toll-caribbean-pacific/

#USA #Trump #CaribbeanSea #StateOfException #Imperialism #Venezuela #Colombia

2) On the educators who resist extreme and disturbing forms of Russian coercion to teach students according to occupiers' demands, for Spanish media:

https://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20251116/11260415/maestros-riesgo-ucrania-ocupada.html

#Ukraine #russia #russiaUkraineWar #imperialism #colonialism #news #indoctrination