Can BRICS Be Anti-Imperialist With Countries Like India and Saudi Arabia? w/ Prabhat Patnaik
How much of a challenge to Western hegemony does the expansion of BRICS actually pose? How much of this has been brought on by the West’s own hubris? What should we make of the ideological differences among the BRICS countries? Could India and Saudi Arabia act as spoilers? Or are we witnessing the symptomatic decline […]
How Old Colonial Narratives Are Used to Denigrate Africa’s Ties with China & Russia
We’re told that countries across the Global South are poor and plagued by violence not because of colonialism, imperialism, never ending Western wars, resource theft and destabilization campaigns. Rather, it’s because they’re ruled by corrupt and greedy people who seem to be innately authoritarian and backwards due to some sort of cultural deficiency that prevents […]
Russia’s Communist Party on Ukraine: ‘If We Lose This Conflict, We Will Be Destroyed’
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) is the second largest party in Russia, yet their views are often ignored in Western media. How do they view the war in Ukraine, the nature of the Russian state under Putin, and the character of the Ukrainian state under Zelensky? What’s their position on Russia’s foreign […]
History of NATO Destruction of Global South and CIA Infiltration of Third World Textbooks
To discuss the brutal history of NATO intervention in the Third World and CIA infiltration of education in targeted countries, Rania Khalek was joined by Essam Elkorghli, a Libyan PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he researches the impact of contemporary imperialism on education with a particular focus on Libya.
Will US and France Intervene in Niger? Anti-Colonial Sentiment Erupts in West Africa with Eugene Puryear
Breakthrough News journalist Eugene Puryear joins Rania Khalek for a special live episode of Dispatches to discuss the latest developments in Niger following threats of military intervention by Western governments and their regional allies meant to reverse an explosion of anti-colonial sentiment across Africa’s Sahel.
East Germany Re-Examined: Why Its Legacy of Socialism and Anti-Imperialism Still Matters
East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR), is remembered in the West as the antithesis to freedom and democracy. But the history and reality of the GDR was far more complex. Not only was the GDR a socialist state built on antifascist principles following the Second World War. It also practiced solidarity with other […]
Is the US Proxy War in Ukraine Making Europe Poorer? with Tarik Cyril Amar
Western sanctions on Russia, previously Europe’s biggest natural gas supplier, has lowered European living standards in the sweltering heat while exacerbating fuel and food shortages around the world. And that’s not all — military spending has increased while social budgets have been cut. To discuss this downplayed aspect of the war in Ukraine and its […]
Chinese ‘Foreign Agents’ and the New Era of McCarthyism, with Amanda Yee
The Red Scare is back. This new era of McCarthyism depends on loose and selective interpretation and enforcement of existing legal measures with some racial profiling and guilt-by-association mixed in. People are being accused of being foreign agents based on their political views. Chinese nationals have been chased out of academia. And wild and easily […]