Iran in America’s Backyard: Raisi’s Defiant Latin America Tour
The Iranian president’s visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba sought to challenge Washington’s global hegemony, by stripping it bare in its own backyard.
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Online Blog | Ukraine | USA
Can the European Leg of the Triad Break Free from the Atlantic Alliance?
The negative impact of the Western policy of preventing peace in Ukraine is being felt daily by the European public. Will the European people stand up for their sovereignty or will they continue to be the frontline for Washington’s ambitions?
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Chávez, UNASUR and the End of Unipolarity: A Conversation with Judith Valencia
Economist Judith Valencia talks about the evolution of Hugo Chávez’s approach to geopolitics and the recent reactivation of the Union of South American Nations [UNASUR], an institution for continental integration that was born under Chávez.
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Online Blog | Russia | USA
The Privatization of War, American-Style
The American government seldom acknowledges its own version of the privatization of war — the tens of thousands of private security contractors it’s used in its misguided war on terror, involving military and intelligence operations in a staggering 85 countries.
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Haiti: Stop the Destruction of a Nation
As the current crisis in Haiti has metastasized into one of the worst human rights disasters in the Americas, Haitian activists in the popular movement and in diaspora are increasingly charging the U.S. government with genocide.
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Will Israel Ever be Held Accountable?
Twenty-five countries are now on the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list. However, one country, despite all its malfeasance, has been left out. And that is Israel.
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The Right to Seek Safety
It’s vital that people worldwide persuade governments to promote global peace and justice instead of wars and military domination which inevitably lead to tragedies like the one which occurred last week in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Two Episodes at Sea: The Submersible Titan and Hundreds of Refugees Drowned in the Mediterranean
Social inequality, neo-colonial war, the growth of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant hysteria, the debasement of official politics and the media—there is “a world of meaning … in the sad circumstances” (Debs) of these two contrasting episodes.
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Deeper Than Ever, the Crisis Leaves Capitalism Out of Breath
All the warning lights are flashing: there is a very significant economic slowdown without any reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental damage; the drastic effects of the ecological crisis, especially as manifested by climate; a huge increase in public and private debt …
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The Idea of Degrowth Communism was Marx’s Last Breakthrough—and Perhaps Most Important
A review of Kohei Saito’s book ‘Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism’. Also: “Critical Comments on Kohei Saito’s View of ‘Degrowth Communism’”.
