Regarding imperialism by author Dee Knight
Imperialism still exists in the twenty-first century. It is not just a thing of the past. The world powers have preserved their fundamental bases, even though the era of free colonial expansion is, in many ways, over. Having developed in the 21st century, imperialism...
Fighting in the Middle East peace has been long. Wars, military interventions and political conflicts have transformed the region over a long period of time. The recent war in Gaza has only added to the situation in the region. The leaders of the world are struggling...
The curbing of NGO operations and the blocking of aid due to closure of the border crossings are meant as another collective punishment. This has predicted a disastrous twist in the life of the Gaza Strip as Israel and Iran are inflaming the tension between them. The...
Jamal’s Struggle Jamal is nine years old and lives in Gaza. His body is paralyzed by violent, uncontrollable spasms. Nights are sleepless for him and his mother’ Shaima. To manage his condition Jamal needs a medicine called baclofen. It relaxes his muscles and stops...
Dee Knight’s Blog shares stories about peace, justice, and fairness. The Gaza famine is one of the saddest events today. Millions of Palestinians cannot get enough food, water, or medicine because of Israel’s blockade. Families go to bed hungry. Children have no clean...
Blinken Blames Hamas for Broken Truce, Compares US support for apartheid in Israel with its decades-long support for apartheid in South Africa. One form of apartheid ended, and the other will also end. During the long South African anti-apartheid struggle the US...
Restore Historic Palestine/End Zionist Aparheid! This article offers my view of the true path to peace in the Middle East. It also links to a petition – please sign and share it!
Switching victim and aggressor is a favorite US tactic for justifying slaughter in efforts to maintain domination. Back in 1964 it was a “Vietnamese attack” on a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin that “justified” what US Air Force General Curtis Lemay called “bombing them back to the Stone Age.” Years earlier the US Air Force bombed and destroyed all the cities and most towns in northern Korea. The endless mess caused by three decades of “endless war” helps to explain the problem facing Biden, Blinken, and their NATO allies, as well as Netanyahu. They have bitten off more than they can chew. As they face defeat in their proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, they are dreaming of an easy solution of the Palestine/Israel conflict, one that would maintain the status quo ante, as if nothing serious has happened as a result of the current genocidal slaughter. It’s an impossible dream.
Traveling to Prove China Is Not Our EnemyBy Dee Knight, November 14, 2023 “China Is Not Our Enemy” was the theme of a ten-day visit to China in early November. The visit was designed to find and highlight a path to common prosperity and a shared future between China,...
EYEWITNESS XINJIANG By Dee Knight, November 14, 2023 Neither peace nor common prosperity were the focus of talks between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in San Francisco this week. Biden seemed determined to stick with...
Dr. Strangelove is No Longer Satire appeared in Covert Action Magazine March 1, 2023. A leader of Germany’s Left Party explains how the escalations in Ukraine “entail the greatest security threat to face the German population since the Second World War.”
‘With Us or Against Us’ Fails appeared March 6 in Covert Action Magazine. It tells the story of intense, Mafia-style US pressure tactics at the recent Munich Security Conference and the G20 meetings in India. In both places leaders of the Global South held their...
US sanctions on more than 40 countries are a “wrecking ball.” But they’re also a boomerang that is devastating Europe, and rapidly surging into the lives of people at home. High prices for gasoline, food and other necessities are the tip of an iceberg, or the headwinds of a hurricane. Much worse is headed our way. We need this book to understand what’s coming and get ready. We need the explanations and background, to really understand what’s happening, and we need the “Sanctions Kill Toolkit.”
There’s a trust problem for the U.S. at all these global conferences. “Joe Biden comes to COP27 and makes new promises. He’s like a salesman selling goods with endless small print.” In Cambodia, “ASEAN leaders reiterated their strong ties with Beijing and issued a statement supporting One China, opposing independence for Taiwan.” And in Indonesia, the U.S. finds the G20 to be “a symbol of the transformation from the West having the only say to common governance across the globe…”
Okinawans and US organizations urged members of Congress to support their demands to close these dangerous and destructive US military bases, which only serve the interests of war profiteers.
I’ve just now published a “double review” of two important books: American Exceptionalism & American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News, by Danny Haiphong and Robert Sirvent, and American Exceptionism: Empire & Deep State, by Aaron Good My review is...
The US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy… the Biden Administration’s plan was to split Russia away from China and then cripple China’s own military and economic viability. But the effect of American diplomacy has been to drive Russia and China together, joining with Iran, India and other allies.
Ukraine’s current leadership and its U.S./NATO backers would like to avoid a settlement that reflects the demographic and historical reality of the country. But this is precisely one key issue that should guide negotiations for a peace agreement. A peace agreement reflecting Russia’s legitimate concerns (voiced for many months and years) would establish a viable basis of cooperation by Russia with Ukraine and with Europe.
As US State Department scrambles to avoid embarrassment at Summit for the Americas in LA, the People’s Summit for Democracy at same time and place has support of 200+ groups
President Biden is trying to harness the G7 and NATO to isolate China, and Congress is fast-tracking bills to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative and punish China for alleged human rights violations.