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About Jeb Sprague

Jeb Sprague is a Research Associate at the University of California, Riverside and previously taught at UVA and UCSB. He is the author of Globalizing the Caribbean: Political economy, social change, and the transnational capitalist class (Temple University Press, 2019), Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012), and is the editor of Globalization and transnational capitalism in Asia and Oceania (Routledge, 2016). He is a co-founder of the Network for the Critical Studies of Global Capitalism. Visit his blog at: jebsprague.blogspot.com.
  • Calderón Mariscal (center-right) at the FBI training academy

    Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by U.S. military’s School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs

    Originally published: The Grayzone on November 13, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Commanders of Bolivia’s military and police helped plot the coup and guaranteed its success. Before they were educated for insurrection through the US military’s notorious School of the Americas and FBI training programs.

  • Washington’s hybrid war on Venezuela – a very 21st-century attempt at regime change

    Washington’s hybrid war on Venezuela – a very 21st-century attempt at regime change

    Originally published: The Canary on May 1, 2019 (more by The Canary)  |

    Rather than carry out conventional war, over recent months U.S. officials have sought to promote internal divisions, sabotage, and economic collapse within Venezuela. Here’s the full story of Washington’s hybrid war on the country.

  • VIDEO: A Visit to Mysterious US Air Firm Accused of Arming Right-Wing Insurgency in Venezuela

    A visit to mysterious U.S. Air Firm accused of arming right-wing insurgency in Venezuela

    Originally published: The Grayzone on February 20, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Jeb Sprague entered the offices of 21Air, a shadowy air cargo company accused of ferrying arms to Venezuela, and demanded answers about its role in the U.S.-led coup

  • Haiti’s Classquake

    Jeb Sprague

    Just five days prior to the 7.0 earthquake that shattered Port-au-Prince on January 12th, the Haitian government’s Council of Modernisation of Public Enterprises (CMEP) announced the planned 70% privatization of Teleco, Haiti’s public telephone company. Today Port-au-Prince lies in ruins, with thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands dead, entire neighborhoods cut off, many buried alive.  Towns […]

  • Marching against G20

    Jeb Sprague

    On Friday, September 25, 2009, activists from environmental, youth, labor, church, poverty advocacy, single payer, and various anti-capitalist organizations carried out a march on the G20 Summit in downtown Pittsburgh.  The protest was estimated to be 5,000 strong. Filmed and edited by Jeb Sprague, for the Inter Press Service (IPS).  See, also, Sprague’s video commentary […]

  • Interviewing Activists against G20 in Pittsburgh

    Jeb Sprague

    The 2009 G20 Summit in Pittsburgh will be held September 24th and 25th, attended by leaders from the most powerful countries.  This footage — of activists in Pittsburgh organizing against the G20 Summit, including labor, fair trade, living wage, community, and socialist organizers  — was filmed on September 23rd, 2009 at the teach-in at the […]

  • Haiti’s Debt

    Jeb Sprague and Joe Emersberger

    Despite being the most impoverished country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti lags behind many countries in the Americas in obtaining debt relief through a program run by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. A hard-hitting paper published in December by the Washington D.C.-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) argues that […]

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