Imperialism & War > United States
Nato paralysis and US decline
17 Jun 2011
No candidate to replace the USA exists or looks likely to arise, writes James Turley
Bloody end of US-created monster
05 May 2011
Harley Filben looks at the damage wrought by US power in its convulsive decline
No change, no hope
13 Jan 2011
Jim Creegan reports on Barack Obama's surrender to Congressional Republicans and the renewed ruling class offensive following the Democrats' defeat in the US mid-term elections
Hands off Assange
09 Dec 2010
US imperialism's attempts to shut down Wikileaks must be defeated, argues Eddie Ford
Rattled by Wikileaks
02 Dec 2010
The latest revelations expose imperialist plans against Iran and the whole rotten business of hidden diplomacy. Eddie Ford calls for freedom of information
Imperialist crimes exposed
28 Oct 2010
Rather than democracy, the US/UK-led invasion and occupation of Iraq delivered a bloodbath. Eddie Ford looks at the Wikileaks revelations
Tea Party: rumblings on the frenzied right
30 Sep 2010
Jim Creegan reports from the United States on the polarisation of politics and an increasingly frenzied middle class
Obama's Afghan strategy in tatters
01 Jul 2010
The change of top military command in Afghanistan is not about personalities, writes Peter Manson
Union Carbide gets away with murder
17 Jun 2010
Jim Moody looks at the worst recorded industrial accident and US double standards
Not the dawn of non-nuclear peace
01 Apr 2010
Eddie Ford warns that the US-Russia agreement on nuclear arms is also about targeting Iran
Obamalaise hits home
28 Jan 2010
James Turley looks at the first year of the Obama presidency
Searing indictment of capitalism spoilt by nostalgia for New Deal
08 Oct 2009
Jim Creegan reviews Michael Moores (director) Capitalism: a love story 2009 (no UK release date yet)
Revolutionary traditions and realities of power
22 Jan 2009
Barack Obama invokes the traditions of the first and second American revolutions and the 1960s civil rights movement. As Ted North shows, this has created huge popular expectations
Labor left must develop platform for change
29 Nov 2007
Another member of Bush's 'coalition of the willing' has been unceremoniously dumped. Last weekend's Australian election marks an important turning point, writes Marcus Ström
Ungreen American
04 Oct 2007
Environmentalists around the world were less than impressed by president George Bush's speech at the major economies' meeting on energy, security and climate change last week. Simon Wells comments
No imperialist intervention
04 Oct 2007
George Bush and Gordon Brown have been shedding crocodile tears over Burma. But should we demand that they intervene to sort things out? Jim Moody argues that the masses themselves are the solution