RAIM, others wreck Zionist-led war mongering against Iran

RAIM, others wreck Zionist-led war mongering against Iran
On October 28th, Uzi Landua, a hard-line Zionist and long-time high-ranking official in the Israeli state, spoke at the Auraria campus in Denver. Landau was invited by the Zionist group, the Amerikan-Israeli Student Affairs Committee, to discuss the supposed threat posed by Iran. RAIM had other ideas.
Word about [...]

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 [...]

John Brown Led Raid on Harpers Ferry, 150 Years Ago Today

October 16 is the 150th anniversary of the raid of Harpers Ferry in 1859.  Led by abolitionist, nation traitor, and revolutionary John Brown, this failed raid was intended to arm Black slaves in a rebellion against white Amerika and for freedom for the Black Nation.  Democracy Now shows a reading of John Brown’s last words [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Amerikan E-Waste Poisons Chinese

Amerikan E-Waste Poisons Chinese
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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, [...]

Amerika’s Fierce Appetite

Amerika’s Fierce Appetite
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The U.S.-based organization Feeding America claims that 1 in 8 Amerikans “suffer from hunger.” The First Worldist advocacy group warns, “You may know someone who is hungry and not even realize it.” By contrast, in the Third World, hunger is easy to spot: malnourished, boney bodies, and swollen bellies. In Amerika, it [...]

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

Obama: more troops, more imperialism, more of the same
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Sacred, Indigenous Site Made Into Fill-Dirt for New Sam’s Club, Revolution Needed

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In Oxford, Alabama something awful is happening. A hill, on top of which lies a Native American rock mound, is being destroyed in order to procure fill-dirt for a new Sam’s Club a few miles away.
The rocks were arranged on the 200 foot (60 meter) rise over a millennium ago. The site was fundamental in [...]

RAIM Global Digest Issue 4

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Review of ‘The Old Future’s Gone: Progressive Strategy Amid Cascading Crisis,’ a talk by Robert Jensen

Review of ‘The Old Future’s Gone: Progressive Strategy Amid Cascading Crisis,’ a talk by Robert Jensen
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Last month, author and activist Robert Jensen spoke in Denver at an event sponsored by Argusfest entitled “The Old Future’s Gone: Progressive Strategy Amid Cascading Crisis.”  It was based on a writing that has circulated among left-liberal websites.  A professor [...]

Conflict Heats Up in Oil-Rich Niger Delta

Conflict Heats Up in Oil-Rich Niger Delta
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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has recently released statements refusing offers of amnesty by the Nigerian state and, as of June 6th, given local and foreign oil workers 72 hours notice of an “imminent attack.” “The warning also applies to greedy individuals from oil [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Obama Administration Boycotts U.N. Conference on Racism, Imperialists Walk Out During Ahmadinejad Speech

Obama Administration Boycotts U.N. Conference on Racism, Imperialists Walk Out During Ahmadinejad Speech
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On April 20th, the so-called United Nations opened its first World Conference Against Racism in eight years. The United States announced ahead of time that it would boycott the conference; similar announcements were made by Israel, Germany, Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands. Were [...]

MSH: Fujimori Gulty, Gets 25 years

(Via Monkey Smashes Heaven)
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Ex-dictator of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, today, received a sentence of 25 years in prison. Fujimori was found to have authorized the actions of the infamous La Colina death squad that claimed the lives of 25 people in 1991 and 1992. In addition, Fujimori was found guilty of authorizing the abduction of a [...]

In Danger of Being Snuffed Out by Imperialism, Sumatran Tigers, Lacking Class Consciousness, Strike Out Against Super-Exploited Neighbors

In Danger of Being Snuffed Out by Imperialism, Sumatran Tigers, Lacking Class Consciousness, Strike Out Against Super-Exploited Neighbors
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Like many of the world’s animals, the Sumatran tiger is facing extinction due to imperialism’s ravenous exploitation of the vast Third World. With less than four hundred remaining in the wild, the Sumatran tiger, like uncountable other species [...]

Obama to Iranian Leadership: Let’s Make a Deal

Obama Tries to Cut a Deal with Iranian Leadership
by “Midwest RAIMster”
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Marking the Iranian new year’s celebration, Nowruz, U.S. president Barack Obama released a video statement to the Middle East nation. While on the surface Obama offered his “best wishes” and the “promise of a new beginning,” such a statement can hardly be taken at [...]

ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Sudanese President, U.S. Tightens the Screws on Africa

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On March 4th, 2009, the International Kangaroo Court (ICC) charged Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, with five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes. The charges, which stem from the conflict in Darfur, are the first of their kind to be leveled against a seated head of state. Since armed [...]

Ten Years After “Bolivarian Revolution,” Term Limits Ended for Chavez

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On February 2nd, Hugo Chavez celebrated 10 years as president of Venezuela. Less than two weeks later, Venezuelans voted 54 percent to 46 percent, allowing him to run for the leading post indefinitely. “This is is historic day,” Chavez told a crowd in Caracas.
Chavez, a self-styled socialist, first came into the spotlight in 1992 after [...]

Amerikans Support Escalation in Afghanistan

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Nearly two-thirds of Amerikans back President Barack Obama’s recent decision to strengthen occupation forces of Afghanistan, according to a new public opinion poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News. These most recent figures are part of Amerikans’ long standing support for the onset, and in this case escalation, of imperialist wars of aggression.
Amerikans [...]

Professor Joel Kovel Sacked for Opposing Zionism

Professor Joel Kovel Sacked for Opposing Zionism
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Joel Kovel, former Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies at Bard College, was fired this past February because of his public stance against Zionism. In a recent statement, Kovel describes the conflict with the Bard administration, one which began in 2002 after he came out against the Israeli state. [...]

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 [...]

Hamas Official Calls for International Justice Against U.S. and Israel

Hamas Official Calls for International Justice Against U.S. and Israel
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Speaking in Malaysia, a senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, called for the United States and Israel to be brought to trial for widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip. The charges stem from Israel’s 22-day assault on Gaza, which killed over 1,300 Palestinians.
Efforts are underway to [...]

MSH: President Barack Obama Continues to Outsource Terror

President Barack Obama continues to outsource torture
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President Barack Obama has issued an executive order that extends the CIA’s ability to carry out renditions. (1) Obama has chosen to continue the Bush administrations controversial “torture by proxy” policies that have come under fire even by the bourgeoisie. To those paying attention, it is no surprise that [...]

Remember Oscar Grant: The Struggle Is Not Over

This New Years Day 2009 in Oakland, California another tragic incident of police terror against a young Black man occurred.  Oscar Grant III, 22 years old, father of a 4 year old daughter, was shot execution-style by a transit cop.  Videos of the incident clearly show he was shot in the back while face-down on [...]

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 [...]

Debriefing on the Obama Presidential Victory –

Debriefing on the Obama Presidential Victory
RAIM Called It
On Tuesday, November 4th 2008, Barack Obama won the presidential race in a landslide victory
over John McCain. Last August, before the Democratic National Convention, in
a short analysis article entitled Obama, “Black” Messiah for White Amerika, RAIM
predicted his victory in non-absolute terms (1). Nevertheless, such a prediction was
months ahead [...]

Your Playstation Has Real Blood On It

Your Playstation Has Real Blood On It
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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 [...]

Obama Shocks Arab World, Touts Imperialist Credentials

Obama Shocks Arab World, Touts Imperialist Credentials
Released by RAIM-Denver, 6/12/08
Hours after he secured the Democratic Party nomination, U.S. presidential contender Barack Obama spoke before the Amerikan Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  “We will never compromise when it comes to Israel’s security… Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and must remain undivided,” he said, receiving [...]

White trash throw hissy-fit over Absolut Vodka Advertisement, re-unified Mexico

A hellofabunch of Amerikkkans are having spasmic fits over an Absolut Vodka ad that features the previous borders of Mexico before the U.$. invasion, land grab, and occupation of 1848. Under pressure, Swedish-based Absolut pulled the ad. (see: “Absolut apologizes for Mexican vodka ad,” ).
The crack analysts as Monkey Smashes Heaven look at [...]

Rip Down Imperialist Walls!

In the last few days, the Palestinians in Gaza tore down the prison wall of the Israeli occupiers. Essentially turning occupied Gaza into a concentration camp, this was meant to starve Palestinians for the crime of resisting colonization of their own land. But oppressed people don’t sit down and take it, they resist! [...]

National Liberation and Anti-Imperialism

By Nick Brown
The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement- Denver is a movement for global equality. We stand for the end of the imperialist system: the system whereby a handful of powerful nations exploit the peoples of the world. We see the termination of imperialism as a necessary first step to a world of lasting peace and real [...]