Jordan Jardine. Originale pubblicato l’otto giugno 2023 con il titolo Review: African Anarchism – The History of a Movement. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Da anarchico, sono naturalmente attratto dai movimenti anarchici non solo degli Stati Uniti ma di tutto il mondo. Mi attira molto, tra gli altri, Lao Tzu, per dire, che con il suo…

Par Dawie Coetzee. Article original: The Long Shadow of Colonialist Ideology, 16 octobre 2022. Traduction française par Éléazar Duhot. Dans le discours politique sud-africain actuel, il est tragique de constater à quelle fréquence des éléments de l’idéologie colonialiste resurgissent dans les arguments des personnes qui s’efforcent le plus de montrer qu’ on ne peut pas…

As an anarchist, I am naturally inclined to research not only anarchist movements from America, but from all around the world. I am very fond of Lao Tzu, for instance, and the Tao Te Ching author was a major influence on prominent anarchists like Peter Kropotkin and Rudolf Rocker. Therefore, I have learned some things…

David Graeber. Pirate Enlightenment, Or the Real Libertalia (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2023). “This is a book about pirate kingdoms, real and imagined,” Graeber begins what is likely to be the last book that appears under his name. “It’s also about a time and place where it is very difficult to tell the difference between…

Di Dawie Coetzee. Originale pubblicato il 13 ottobre 2022 con il titolo The Long Shadow of Colonialist Ideology. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. È sconfortante notare quanto spesso, nell’attuale dibattito pubblico in Sudafrica, elementi dell’ideologia coloniale spuntano proprio in chi grida che non si può combattere il padrone con le sue stesse armi. Sconfortante perché…

In the present South African political discourse, it is tragic how often elements of colonialist ideology crop up in the arguments of the very people who are most wont to insist that one cannot demolish the master’s house with the master’s tools — tragic because I want them to be right! The metaphor is nonsensical…

Daniel Mccarthy discusses a book on war for the Greater Middle East. Stephen Kinzer discusses two books critical of American foreign policy. Sheldon Richman discusses Trump’s miconceptions about NATO. Trevir Timm discusses the renewed U.S. bombing of Libya. Alex Emmons discusses the new military campaign against ISIS in Libya. Ted Rall discusses Khizr Khan and…

You’ve probably had one of Those People say (usually after sidling up to you, looking around to see if anybody’s listening, and prefacing it with an “I’m not racist, but…” disclaimer) “Slavery was 150 years ago — they need to get over it!” Or maybe it’s ethnic cleansing episodes like Tulsa (“90 years ago”), or…

The Financial Times recently reported that Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama has conducted ten times more drone strikes than his predecessor George W. Bush. As far as we can tell, that number is somewhere in the ballpark of 500 strikes and spans a wide array of countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia…

Medea Benjamin discusses 10 steps to wean the U.S. off militarism. Ron Jacobs discusses the footprint of the U.S. military in Africa. Sam Husseini discusses U.S. government violence from Hiroshima to Iraq. Uri Avnery discusses the divide and conquer strategy of Netanyahu. George Selgin discusses how the Federal Reserve is joining the War on Drugs….

I suppose we will forever be subjected to incomplete accounts of the life of Nelson Mandela and the evil he struggled against. Both the Right and the Left (as conventionally defined in America) are too busy pushing agendas to provide the full story. On the establishment Right (with some honorable exceptions) apartheid was deemed unimportant…

I had not intended to write anything on the death of Nelson Mandela. Partly because I am exhausted, but mainly because I wish to demonstrate my right not to mark his passing in any way — notwithstanding any affection I might bear the man. I feel that it is a right that needs to be…