Author Archives: Danny Haiphong

Censorship is the last gasp of the liberal class

Truthful, honest, and independent journalism and analysis is anathema to a social order that has little else to offer humanity but endless war and austerity.
By Danny Haiphong
Posted on November 12, 2021 by Danny Haiphong

On November 8, 2021, Twitter locked my account for a period of one day for responding to corporate media darling and Russiagate fanatic Keith Olbermann’s slanderous reply to journalist Wyatt Reed’s coverage of the Nicaraguan election. The flagged tweet simply restated Olbermann’s question, replacing “whore for a dictator” with “whoring for the American oligarchy.” Twitter demanded that I delete the tweet or send a time-consuming, lengthy appeal with no assurances as to if or when my sentence in “Twitter jail” would end. This prompted me to delete the tweet and wait for the 12-hour suspension to end. Keith Olbermann’s account went unscathed. Continue reading →

Deadly consequences of American imperial arrogance on full display in COVID-19 outbreak
By Danny Haiphong
Posted on March 18, 2020 by Danny Haiphong

Donald Trump is but a symptom of a larger disease. That disease is American imperial arrogance, and it has been on full display as COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the world and the American mainland. The potential lethality of COVID-19 is exponentially more dangerous when combined with the hubris of the American imperial order and its hyper-capitalist economic foundation. The U.S.’s response to the virus lags far behind the rest of the world. A deep thirst for profit among powerful elites dictates all social policies and organizations in the United States and this thirst has deadly consequences. Continue reading →

‘Prejudential’ is a must-read to understand current presidential election debacle
By Danny Haiphong
Posted on March 12, 2020 by Danny Haiphong

Every four years, ruling elites aligned on either side of the two-party duopoly choose their most important political official, the president, to defend and protect their interests. Ordinary Americans are taught that the electoral process is a shining example of democracy at work. No other elected politician in the United States is more mythologized than the American president. George Washington couldn’t tell a lie. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Historians, educators, and the mass corporate media have for centuries portrayed presidents as heroes of the people and the most powerful representatives of the “land of the free” and “home of the brave.” Continue reading →

How establishment hate for Sanders only fuels his rise
By Danny Haiphong
Posted on January 31, 2020 by Danny Haiphong

With just days until the Iowa Caucus, Bernie Sanders is the clear front runner in what is still a crowded primary field. Sanders has gained a lead in the polls in key states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, and California. He also leads all candidates in the number of volunteers and small donor contributions, and it’s not even close. The Democratic Party establishment is in a panic about Sanders’ recent success. Sanders has faced an intensified attack from his opponents, yet his popularity continues to rise. Continue reading →

Corbyn’s defeat shows that Western democracy is built on lies and contradictions
By Danny Haiphong
Posted on December 20, 2019 by Danny Haiphong

The defeat of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is really a defeat for Western democracy itself. Forty plus years of neoliberal decay has exposed Western democracy for the sham that it always was. Social democracy is dead. The colonized world, now defined by many in the post-independence era as the Global South, has understood for centuries that Western democracy is akin to imperial plunder and race-based terror. Economic, ecological, and imperial decay have come home to roost in the so-called “free world.” False contradictions make up the life blood of Western democracy and sustain its capitalist and imperialist core despite having nothing to offer but mythology to the masses. Continue reading →

This holiday season, American workers have little to celebrate
By Danny Haiphong
Posted on December 9, 2019 by Danny Haiphong

Every year, much of the U.S. population celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas to show appreciation for their families and friends. Thanksgiving normalizes the colonial origins of the United States and erases the brutality of the English settlers who massacred indigenous people to prepare the land for capitalist accumulation. Christmas is the annual holiday of big business. On no other day are workers more encouraged to spend their wages on the latest consumer product to gift to their loved ones. The holidays bring with them a deep pressure to be merry. Yet on this holiday season, workers have little to celebrate. Continue reading →

Brexit is the bed the EU made, now it must lie in it
By Danny Haiphong
Posted on July 4, 2016 by Danny Haiphong

For the colonial peoples of the world, Europe has for centuries been viewed as a parasitic nation-state project predicated on the subjugation of Third World peoples. It should not surprise anyone, then, that few in the Global South had much to say about the Brexit vote on June 23rd. The vote to exit the European Union has shaken the ruling capitalist system, if only momentarily. A dead-end narrative has been shoved down the throats of viewers of the US and Western media that praises the EU as a force of progress and Brexit as a force of regression. The right wing has been the scapegoat of this narrative. However, the right wing has made immigrants the scapegoat of anti-EU sentiments. This has taken attention away from how the roots of Brexit lie in the EU itself. Continue reading →