Payback: The Price of Colonialism

Of all the uprisings in the Maghreb, the case of Libya is perhaps the most opaque.  Is the country a locus of true spontaneous insurrection or simply the target of an opportunistic maneuver by the West? By Gaither Stewart | 24 February 2011 Simulposted with The Greanville Post [print_link] (Rome) Does colonialism pay off for [...]

Black History Month and The Unspoken Nature of Internal Colonialism

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by editor and columnist Jared A. Ball. Republished from Black Agenda Report. “DuBois described us as ‘semi-colonial,’ or ‘domestically colonized.’” This past week the left-of-center host of GritTv, Laura Flanders, had a powerful segment focused on James Baldwin. It began with a clip of Baldwin explaining so poetically how race [...]

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