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…Or We’ll Kill You…Or We’ll Kill YouKevin Barry is a hero of the Irish independence movement. He was a member of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence (1919–21) against the British occupiers of Ireland. In 1920, he took part in an attack on a British supply truck. After a British soldier was killed, Barry was captured, tortured, and […]
IADL Condemns the Joint U.S.-Israeli Illegal Aggression on IranIADL Condemns the Joint U.S.-Israeli Illegal Aggression on IranThe International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) condemns in the strongest terms the joint attack by the United States and Israel on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched on the morning of Saturday, February 28, 2026, amid the holy month of Ramadan. These attacks constitute another example of the crime of aggression, in blatant violation […]
The CIA and the Cultural Cold War RevisitedThe CIA and the Cultural Cold War RevisitedThe sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]
How Brazil and the PT Can Weather U.S. ImperialismHow Brazil and the PT Can Weather U.S. ImperialismBrazil’s left, headed by the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), has long been a leading voice in Latin America against U.S. interventionism. When the United States launched its military action to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2025, the Brazilian government and the PT joined a global chorus of shock and denunciation of this […]
The U.S. Propaganda Assault: A Tale of Two Venezuela(n)sThe U.S. Propaganda Assault: A Tale of Two Venezuela(n)sAfter the Trump administration illegally kidnapped the legitimate president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, 2026, we saw two distinct and divergent responses from Venezuelans. On the one hand, the Venezuelan diaspora, especially in the United States, celebrated President Maduro’s kidnapping and bombing of their birth country. They congregated […]
