The US acted as midwife to South Africa’s apartheid system, said Dr Gerald Horne, author of “US Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.” Horne, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and possibly Black America’s most prolific living political writer, said the US Carnegie Corporation formulated “the blueprint” for South Africa’s apartheid system, imposed in 1948 as “a combination of neo-slavery and Jim Crow on steroids.”
The U.S. has gone extra miles to support French military efforts to protect uranium mining in Niger.
From photos of lynchers to videos of brutal cops, there is a radical heritage of using images of violence as instruments of critique.
Under sustained pressure from Washington, a bloc of rightwing governments has interpreted a regional treaty as authorizing military force against Venezuela.
The “US Left” conveniently ignores that you can’t be a socialist and not also be anti-imperialist.
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