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About Roger Harris

Roger Harris is with the Task Force on the Americas and the Campaign to End US/Canada Sanctions Against Venezuela.
  • Role of NGOs in Promoting Neo-Colonialism

    U.S. reinstates funding to propaganda outlet NED

    Originally published: Antiwar.com on May 23, 2025 (more by Antiwar.com)

    The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a U.S. regime-change tool.

  • Secretary Marco Rubio departs Instanbul, Türkiye May 16, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)

    Under Trump, NED to continue weaponizing “democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba

    Originally published: Kawsachun News on May 16, 2025 (more by Kawsachun News)  |

    The National Endowment for Democracy has had project funding reinstated by the Trump administration.

  • Southcom

    Every accusation is a confession

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on February 22, 2025 by Francisco Dominguez (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    Admiral Alvin Hosley demonstrated selective outrage over the fear of multipolarity in the Western Hemisphere.

  • Photo: Liberation News

    U.S. media promotes military intervention In Venezuela

    Originally published: Popular Resistance on January 28, 2025 by Francisco Dominguez (more by Popular Resistance)  |

    Writers and activists Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris reflect on the piece in the NYT which openly calls for a military intervention to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro.

  • President Nicolás Maduro and former US-backed opposition candidate Edmundo González.

    Two people claim to be president of Venezuela – will U.S. militarily intervene?

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on January 3, 2025 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    Ten days before Donald Trump will be inaugurated in Washington DC on January 20, there will be another inauguration in Caracas. Two contenders claim they will receive the Venezuelan presidential sash.

  • There Is No Future in War: Youth Rise Up, a Manifesto | Countering the Militarisation of Youth antimili-youth.net

    The North American peace movement at an inflection point

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on April 17, 2024 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing U.S. wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China.

  • Alex Saab (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    How the campaign to free Venezuelan political prisoner Alex Saab succeeded

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on December 21, 2023 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    Alex Saab was freed from U.S. captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.”

  • Photo composition showing a protester holding a banner that reads “Palestine resist” on a Palestinian flag, with a background of Latin American flags. Photo: The New Arab.

    Why Latin America and the Caribbean stand with Palestine: Israel viewed as U.S. proxy

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on December 14, 2023 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than any other region, they have expressed their solidarity with Palestine. Most recognize that the partnership between U.S. imperialism and Israeli Zionism applies not only to Palestine, but also […]

  • Chinese President Xi Jinping

    Humor in the headlines over China in Latin America

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on October 7, 2023 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    Apparently in a grave threat to U.S. national security, the president of Honduras attended a state banquet and actually ate Chinese food. What’s next for the country the ‘Post’ affectionately describes as “long among the most docile of U.S. regional partners?”

  • Oficina de intereses USA (U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba) (Photo: birasuegi /Flickr)

    The Havana Syndrome case cracked

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on March 7, 2023 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    Even before the attack on the homeland of the weather balloons, the Havana Syndrome tested America’s mettle.

  • High-Value US Asset “Fat Leonard” Arrested in Venezuela – Possible Prisoner Swap

    High-value U.S. asset “Fat Leonard” arrested in Venezuela–possible prisoner swap

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on October 4, 2022 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    The principal perpetrator, in what AP News called “one of the most extensive bribery scandals in U.S. military history,” popped up in Venezuela of all places. Leonard Glenn Francis bilked the U.S. Navy out of at least $35 million.

  • DoomsDay Clock

    With Its Doomsday Clock at 100 Seconds to Midnight, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists calls for escalating U.S. aggression against Russia

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 15, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The Bulletin emerged after World War II as a voice for peace, but has since drifted into being an echo chamber for the U.S. imperial project.

  • Forbes Reveals why the US Government is Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab

    Forbes reveals why the U.S. Government is trying to extradite Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on October 4, 2021 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    The U.S. would far prefer to just quietly extradite Saab to Miami, use whatever means necessary to extract sensitive information from him, and then warehouse him in the world’s largest prison system.

  • Fernanda LeMarie

    U.S. targets Nicaraguan presidential election: former solidarity activists echo imperial talking points

    Originally published: Pressenza on July 15, 2021 (more by Pressenza)

    Now Uncle Sam has a problem in Nicaragua, where independent polls predict a landslide victory for Daniel Ortega’s leftist Sandinista slate in the November 7thpresidential elections.

  • Alex Saab (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    U.S. trying to extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the “crime” of securing food for the hungry: the case of Alex Saab v. The Empire

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on May 22, 2021 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions.

  • Andrés Arauz in Ecuador’s presidential contest

    U.S. role behind the defeat of Ecuador’s Leftist presidential candidate

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on April 26, 2021 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    The U.S. role in the defeat of leftist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador’s presidential contest on April 11 was not overt because it did not need to be, according to a high-ranking Latin American diplomat.

  • Juan Guaidó declares himself acting president

    Juan Guaidó: The man who would be president of Venezuela doesn’t have a constitutional leg to stand on

    Roger Harris

    Donald Trump imagines Juan Guaidó is the rightful president of Venezuela. Mr. Guaidó, a man of impeccable illegitimacy, doesn’t have a constitutional leg to stand on for this open attempt at a coup.

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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