Entries Tagged as ‘Imperialism’

November 25, 2009

Review: Arun Gupta Asks, “What Anti-War Movement”

Review: Arun Gupta Asks, “What Anti-War Movement” (presented by Democracy Now!, September 24th, 2009)
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A year after Barack Obama’s presidential election and with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan still raging (and spreading into Pakistan), many within anti-war circles are engaged in dialogue about which way the movement should go. A large part of the [...]

November 18, 2009

Water and Imperialism

Water and imperialism
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Water is essential, in various ways, to all human activity. Water is something that humans, literally, cannot do without. Every human needs water in order live and to have a good life. Societies need water in order to be provide for the survival of their populations. Usable water, as a resource, is finite [...]

November 2, 2009

Fuck The Troops II: Some People Push Back

The long-awaited sequel to Fuck The Troops is finally here:

 

October 26, 2009

Yum! Brands PR Department Launches World Hunger Relief Campaign, Doesn’t Really Care

Yum! Brands PR Department Launches World Hunger Relief Campaign, Doesn’t Really Care
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Last September, U.S.-based Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company and parent of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and A&W fast food chains, launched its annual World Hunger Relief campaign. Touted as part of a commitment to ending global hunger, this [...]

October 14, 2009

Denver Protests Ongoing Imperialist Wars

Denver Protests Ongoing Imperialist Wars
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October 7 was the 8th anniversary of the start of the current war in Afghanistan by the United States.  A number of national groups in the remaining U.S. anti-war movement called for actions.  Locally the Denver Anti-War Network (DAWN) called for a march many months ago, and it kicked off this [...]

October 7, 2009

Afghan Locals Give U.S. Occupiers Proper Goodbye

Afghan Locals Give U.S. Occupiers Proper Goodbye
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On Saturday, October 3rd hundreds of insurgents stormed two remote military bases near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan. A proper goodbye– the attack killed eight occupiers from Fort Carson and injured many more as they were preparing to relocate from rural outposts to larger bases in more populated areas [...]

September 24, 2009

Harvest Season Means Forced Labor for Uzbek Children

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Every September, hundreds of thousands of Uzbek children begin two months of forced labor in the country’s cotton fields. Receiving almost nothing in wages and acting in accordance with state mandate, schools are closed and children become virtual slaves as the harvest season rolls in.
In the fields, children as young as seven are forced to [...]

September 6, 2009

Amerikan E-Waste Poisons Chinese

Amerikan E-Waste Poisons Chinese
(raimd.wordpress.com)
E-waste increasingly flows from the U.S. to the Third World. E-waste is made up of computers, cell phones, and other electronics that have been thrown away. For example, Amerikans throw out 133,000 computers a day and 100 million cell phones a year. Electronics contain harmful, toxic materials such as lead, cadmium, mercury, [...]

August 22, 2009

Obama: more troops, more imperialism, more of the same

Obama: more troops, more imperialism, more of the same
(raimd.wordpress.com)
The election of Barack Obama as president was promised as bringing a different direction to U.S. foreign policy.  But as recent news shows, Obama will continue U.S. imperialist policies, for one by increasing the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.  In the beginning of his term this [...]

August 22, 2009

1,013 Afghan Civilians Killed in First Half of 2009

1,013 Afghan Civilians Killed in First Half of 2009
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A U.N. mission has reported that 1,013 civilians have been killed in combat in Afghanistan during the first half of the year, up 24% from the same period in 2008. Civilian deaths have not been restricted to Afghanistan. On January 23rd, less than three days after his [...]

August 15, 2009

Movie Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Movie Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a Hollywood action movie packed with CGI-enhanced martial arts; explosions; sci-fi hi-tech weapons; chase scenes and topped off with near superhuman ‘good’ and ‘bad guys.’ Typical of Hollywood-type action movies, the plot centers around preventing the bad guys from attaining global [...]

July 4, 2009

The Farce of July

June 5, 2009

I-70 Expansion Plans Indicative of Wider Imperialist Parasitism

I-70 Expansion Plans Indicative of Wider Imperialist Parasitism
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Discussions about expanding Interstate 70 in Colorado have been happening for nearly a decade now. Proponents have cited everything from the living standards of Coloradans, quantified by their ability to quickly traverse the state’s main East-West highway, to the economic incentive of drawing into the state more tourist [...]

May 23, 2009

Class Today and the Struggle for a New World

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“We want a better world. We want a world based on equality and mutuality. We envision a future in which the full potential of humanity is realized: one without unequal power relations and one of ecological harmony. Creating such a world is our common cause.” Such is the revolutionary refrain.
However pious the statements are, they [...]

May 20, 2009

U.S. Troop Injured by Philippine Rebel Group

U.S. Troop Injured by Philippine Rebel Group
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On April 28th, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) announced that its military wing, the New People’s Army(NPA), injured a U.S. soldier embedded with the Philippine Army. According to the CPP, the Philippine Army attempted to encircle and attack a unit of the NPA, at which point the [...]

May 20, 2009

May 19th: Happy Birthday, Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh

On this day, May 19th, two great revolutionary leaders were born.

Ho Chi Minh
May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969

Malcolm X
May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965

April 23, 2009

MSH: Imperialists are the Real Pirates

Imperialists are the real pirates
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The Amerikan media is buzzing about pirates. In a recent incident, so-called “pirates” attempted to capture the cargo ship Maersk Alabama. According to mainstream reports, when the Somalis failed to take the ship, they fled the scene, taking the ship’s captain with them as a hostage to ransom later. Later, captain [...]

March 12, 2009

Iraqi Resistance to the Obama Administration

The following is reportedly a communique from the Iraqi resistance group, Rafidan, identified elsewhere on the internet as the Mujahideen Central Command. In the interest of giving a voice to those fighting the U.S. military on the ground, we are reposting it here. While leaving the political content intact, we edited out portions for the [...]

February 21, 2009

Obama Signs Stimulus Bill, Escalates War in Afghanistan

Obama Signs Stimulus Bill, Escalates War in Afghanistan
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As part of a country-wide tour, Barack Obama arrived in Denver to sign the 787 billion dollar “economic stimulus package.” The bill was signed at a private media event held at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Obama sycophant Governor Bill Ritter laughably described the event as [...]

December 23, 2008

Something to Think About While Going Through Your Christmas Crap…

Thought we’d take some time to review an interesting Colorado blog.
Not My Tribe is a lefty Colorado Springs-based political blog. RAIM ran into some of their writers during the DNC organizing meetings, as they were strong supporters of Recreate 68. Their politics is something we do not totally agree on, as they espouse [...]

December 17, 2008

Muntadar al-Zaidi, an Anti-Imperialist Hero: Right On!

Television reporter Muntadar al-Zaidi, 29, gained instant fame for throwing his shoes at President Bush at a news conference, nearly hitting him, temporarily wiping that stupid grin off his face, and giving a powerful symbolic view of Iraqi anger toward the occupying nation that killed over 2 million of its citizens.
Al-Zaidi [...]

November 22, 2008

Don’t Ever Stop Saying: Fuck the Troops!

This video speaks for itself.

August 21, 2008

Your Playstation Has Real Blood On It

Your Playstation Has Real Blood On It
(raimd.wordpress.com)

There has been recent interest in the news lately on a report by the liberal activist group Toward Freedom around what has been dubbed the “Playstation War.” It describes how the demand for a key metal used in the Sony Playstation 2 video game console was a driving force [...]

August 5, 2008

“The North-South Division”

The following is an excerpt from a essay titled The Socialist Project in a Disintegrated Capitalist World, written by Greek writer Arghiri Emmanuel in 1976.
The North-South division
It is largely accepted today that development and under-development are not autonomous and juxtaposed phenomena which can be examined each within its own terms, but that they are phenomena [...]

July 19, 2008

Coming Soon… Fuck the Troops 2!

Here’s a teaser:

July 12, 2008

The Ongoing Saga: Why We Say… Fuck the Troops!

Watch the above video and listen to this limey (thats an Engli$h Cracker) fuck cream his jeans as he watches his comrades brutally beat a group of Iraqi kids.

July 2, 2008

Why We Say… Fuck the Troops!

Watch this cracker whine that he isn’t allowed to murder Iraqi kids for throwing rocks at his pig ass.
Listen carefully for the kid shouting “fuck you!” We are proud of you little RAIMer, keep it up!

June 19, 2008

History of Amerikkka – Rev. Wright is Right!

May 29, 2008

Fuck The Troops: The Video [update]

We made the video shorter and faster for an enhanced ‘fuck the troops’ viewing experience.
Here for you now: Fuck the Troops v. 1.0

Also check out our pamphlet, also entitled Fuck The Troops.

April 30, 2008

Muqtada Al-Sadr Interview

Iraqi resistance leader Muqtada Al-Sadr recently declared “open war” against the occupation forces of U.S. imperialism. He leads the Madhi army that remains a large part of the Iraqi resistance. He has clarified his call recently in a statement calling for Iraqi unity, to focus on the Amerikan occupiers.
Here is a recent interview [...]

March 19, 2008

Try-works:Happy Fifth Anniversary Iraqi Civilians!

From Try-works:
(Thanks to Rolanda.)

March 6, 2008

Why?

Why?

From: Maoistický studijní krouže

March 3, 2008

Fuck the troops: Amerikkkan sadists kill puppies in Iraq

Amerikkkans hardly have any sympathy for Iraqi dead. Amerikkkans have more sympathy for puppies than Third World humans. Amerikkkan heroes bravely throw puppies off of cliffs in Iraq. Typical.

UPDATE: Tryworks has informed us that youtube is pulling this video. Download it if you can. We will try to keep this video [...]

February 19, 2008

Kamatayan Para Sa Amerika!

From Amihan Malaya:

February 4, 2008

Victory to the Oppressed!

This is from Amihan Malaya.