• The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited

    James Petras

    The 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 […]

  • It’s official- Nicolás Maduro wants to be Chávez 2.0 – Foreign Policy foreignpolicy.com

    Peculiarities of U.S. imperialism in Latin America

    Originally published: Global Research on January 30, 2019 (more by Global Research)  |

    Venezuela, the current target of U.S., President Donald Trump, is a case illustrating the ‘peculiarities’ of imperialist politics. We will proceed to outline the background, techniques and impact of the imperial power grab.

  • This artwork by Michael Osbun relates to the travails of the American middle class.

    The fall offensive: the U.S., France and Brazil

    Originally published: Axis of Logic on September 14, 2017 (more by Axis of Logic)

    The fall of 2017 will witness the most brutal assault on working and middle class living standards since the end of World War II. Three presidents and their congressional allies will ‘revise’ labor legislation, progressive income tax laws and regulations and effectively end the mixed economy in France, the US and Brazil.