If the U.S. were another country the military would have invaded by now
The United States, as we all know, has had quite a tumultuous couple of years. But it does not appear to be getting any better, in many ways, it is actually getting worse.
Joe Biden is President and Liberals are over the moon, yet the material conditions for the majority of the population have not improved like Biden stated they would during his campaign — remember those $2,000 checks? But Biden will happily approve an $85 million Raytheon weapons deal for Chile. While Biden’s Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, is a former Raytheon board member and is believed to own…
A glimpse of Australia’s genocide against the region’s indigenous population.
The story of the Stolen Generation is one of hardship, trauma, forced displacement, ethnic and cultural cleansing. And has left generations of Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders cut off from their history and culture.
The Stolen Generation describes a period between 1905 to 1970 where Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders children were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government — in efforts to assimilate these groups into white society as a way to ‘improve’ them. …
The U.S. is the largest state sponsor of terrorism
The United States has engaged in various conflicts portraying the “enemy” to be savage, brutish, and not caring for humanity. While depicting themselves as the defenders of freedom, liberty, and all that is good in the world. But in many cases, this narrative that Washington spins is only to ensure public and political support for the overthrowing of regimes which they are not fond of.
Take the Gulf War as an example. The propaganda that the American public was bombarded by was to magnitude unseen before, with media censorship reigning supreme as the military was trying to overcome the issues…
Private capital did not make the technology in your iPhone, your money did.
In an age of neo-liberalism, where we are told that innovation only occurs because a brave capitalist takes a dive into the abyss and emerges with new technologies and that this is the only way in which innovation happens, is broadcasted as truth. We have forgotten that most of the technologies, we take for granted, such as all those that reside within that little device in your pocket — GPS, internet, battery, voice recognition, touchscreen— was engineered by individuals on a government payroll.
I know it is hard to believe, as we have been bombarded daily with market-driven propaganda that…
The Black Belt Republic and the Soviet Unions’ plan for racial egalitarianism in the U.S.
The battle between Communism and Capitalism led to many crazy endeavours, be it Reagan’s “Star Wars Program” — that aimed to use lasers shot from outer space as a missile defence system — or the psychochemical warfare overlapping with mind-control research, giving rise to projects like MK Ultra. It is safe to say that the Cold War was a pretty crazy time with Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) appearing to be sensible diplomacy.
However, prior to the Cold War, with the Soviet Union still in its infancy, Communists were seeking political agitation all over the globe, in hopes of what Vladimir…
The half a century conflict ended in 1991, but why?
Why the Cold War ended is a highly debated topic among International Relations (IR) scholars and historians, mainly due to it being a major shock. Many different theories in IR, point to various factors causing the end of the Cold War.
Realists for instance, who believe states would never willingly give up power, were most shocked, as the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev did exactly that. While neo-conservatives hailed the United States (US)President Ronald Reagan and his policies as the decisive factors which ‘won it’. …
How black Americans saw the USSR as a beacon of hope for all oppressed peoples.
When we think of the Soviet Union (USSR) we often think of Stalin’s purges, gulags, and big bad communists. However, when people think of the United States ideas of “the American Dream” and the “defenders of freedom” arise. We rarely ever think of the USSR as something positive and in defence of the oppressed, fighting injustices such as racism.
However, the United States (U.S.), as we know, has had a long history of racist government laws and policies which favoured white Americans over all others and whose segregationist methods with Jim Crow and other race laws even inspired the likes…
One of the ocean's most feared predators is facing possible extinction, but why? And what will the effects be?
Sharks have always been an animal that has garnered my attention. My sheer fascination with these creatures has led to a wider love of the ocean and all that resides within it. But, this mostly unexplored world beneath the water is in trouble due to numerous reasons. One of which is the destruction of one of the ocean's top apex predators.
Sharks have had a bad reputation for some time, especially after the release of Jaws in 1974, causing mass galeophobia (fear of sharks) and hatred of them. Interestingly, the author of Jaws saw the demonization of sharks caused by…
The long and hopeless Vietnam War started way before U.S. troops invaded
The war in Vietnam started in 1945 lasting until 1975 and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The North was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other Communist allies, while the South was supported by the United States (U.S.) and other anti-communist allies. The war was brutal, with casualties and deaths varying but detailed studies have shown that from 1965 to 1975, when the U.S. was most engaged, approximately 1,353,000 Vietnamese were killed, including deaths of both militaries and civilians, with far more dying between 1945 to 1965.
The war was one of the most controversial…
When a group of radicals sought to initiate a revolution in Britain
The early 19th century, in England, saw massive levels of unrest. Riots broke out throughout the country, and public dissatisfaction with the government rose. Due to a number of factors, such as the Post-Napoleonic Depression, poor crop harvests, and the Peterloo Massacre, which left historians such as Eric J. Evans suggesting that these factors made the period turbulent and ripe for revolution (Evans, The Great Reform Act of 1832, 1994, p. 54).
The anger and frustration against the government and their dealings with public dissatisfaction culminated in a cataclysmic plot to kill all cabinet ministers, including the Prime Minister, Lord…
Tarik Ata
History with Politics graduate, currently doing an MA in Global History. Freelance Writer. I have a wide array of interests far too many for this bio.
