Colonialism

In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales about the direction the protests will take from here on out, the context that caused them, and the accusations against him. This is the latest in a series of conversations with Bolivia’s first indigenous president regarding the aggression against his country’s sovereignty, emanating both from Washington and from within the nation itself. In The Grayzone’s first exclusive interview with Evo Morales in 2024, he said the […]

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For these five artists, creation is an act of resistance, and anti-colonialism is the methodology.

by C.R.Yadu and Sahil Mehra* Within the discourse of Development Economics, the most widely accepted theory is that of ‘structural transformation’ (ST), which posits that, over time, non-agricultural, high productivity, and capitalist sectors will gain greater significance in terms of both national income and employment, while the role of agricultural, low productivity, and non capitalist […]

A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post about some of the work that USAID did.  Now I’d like to drill down a bit and talk about some of the work that I personally did for USAID. This runs a bit long, because this sort of thing is all about context.  But if you’re […]

21st of October 2024 I am so happy to have been asked to contribute to this round table in honour of David. We were close friends for over fifty years. All who knew him well could sense the extraordinary unity between his life and work. His life bore testimony to his ideals. There were no … Continue reading In Memory of David P. Calleo – Bologna Conference

Namibia's solidarity with Palestine underscores a broader shift in global politics, where shared histories pave the way for meaningful alliances against colonial oppression.

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Amidst a recent layover, my phone pinged to indicate I’d been “mentioned” on Twitter, which...

Geopolitics of knowledge is a fact. Only few (conservative) colleagues would contend otherwise. Ingrid Robeyns wrote an entry for this blog dealing with this problem. There, Ingrid dealt mostly with the absence of non-Anglophone colleagues in political philosophy books and journals from the Anglophone centre. I want to stress that this is not a problem […]

by Dror Goldberg* Where and when did modern currency originate? My book Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency (University of Chicago Press, 2023) tackles this fascinating question. I discover and explain the origin of modern currency in 1690 in the English colony of Massachusetts Bay — an unimportant place, compared to […]

One of the privileges of being civilized is that it gives you the right to do very uncivilized things to the barbarians. In his public address to Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on October 18, Benjamin Netanyahu remarked, “You’ve rightly drawn a clear line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism.” History […]

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