Article Subjects and Geography: War
The New Cold War on China
July 1, 2021
The imperialist world system, crowned by U.S. hegemony, is now threatened by China's seemingly inexorable rise and pursuit of its own distinctive sovereign project. In this respect, the Trump administration's prosecution of a New Cold War on China was no anomaly, but rather the inevitable U.S. response to China's rise and the end of Washington's unipolar moment. The Biden administration has made it clear that it not only intends to continue the New Cold War, but to accelerate it.
In Line of Fire: The Korean Peninsula in U.S.-China Strategy
July 1, 2021
The war against fascism was transformed into the Cold War. U.S. imperialism, subdued somewhat by post-First World War isolationism, came into full flower. Washington implemented this sea change in many ways, including the division of the Korean Peninsula.
The Point Is to Change It
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- Vol. 73, No. 02 (June 2021)
June 1, 2021
We who are engaged in the struggle for change might ask: "Through what lens of refraction is the evidence of events recalled and related?" If we are to resist the genocidal use of military force, and to oppose the environmental depredation that follows in its wake, we need to see the roots and laws of motion of colonialism and empire
The Continuing Korean War in the Murderous History of Bombing
January 1, 2021
The Korean War, which broke out on June 25, 1950, can be considered the epicenter of bombing as an instrument of war. For one, it was the first—and, so far, the last—time since 1945 that the United States seriously considered using atomic weapons during the course of an imperial war. It was the first war that the United States did not win. It ended in a stalemate—an armistice—that continues until today. Kinetic fighting was suspended, but the war continues (though only by one side) by what is conveniently but simplistically called sanctions.
Notes from the Editors, December 2020
December 1, 2020
The United States is now in a New Cold War with Russia and China, with the focus increasingly on the latter and involving a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony over the world economy.
Toward Delinking: An Alternative Chinese Path Amid the New Cold War
October 1, 2020
During the 1960s, China was effectively excluded from the two major camps: the Soviet camp and the U.S. camp. For about a decade, China was obliged to seek development within its own borders and thereby achieved some extent of delinking: a refusal to succumb to U.S.-eurocentric globalization and an embrace of a people's agenda of development. While foreign relations were later normalized and China once again brought in foreign capital, since being explicitly targeted as the primary rival of the United States, however, the situation may again warrant moves toward delinking and searching for alternatives, with ups and downs along the way.
India, COVID-19, the United States, and China
September 1, 2020
Since the emergence of COVID-19, the United States has quite openly decided to use the crisis, at a global scale, as a weapon against its perceived rival, China. In this context, India has taken a number of steps to restructure its relation to China, asserting economic stances and implementing policies that are becoming more and more closely entwined with its geopolitical positions and aspirations.
And then, I think about war
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- Vol. 72, No. 01 (May 2020)
May 1, 2020
A new poem by Linda Backiel.
Another Gray Afternoon in Guernica
March 1, 2020
A new poem by Kenneth Salzmann, author of The Last Jazz and Other Poems.