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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.
  • US Sanctions on Venezuela Continue

    U.S. sanctions on Venezuela continue: Corporate beneficiaries and a targeted society

    Originally published: Countercurrents on March 24, 2026 (more by Countercurrents)  |

    In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela policy, implying relief for a country long subjected to economic coercion.

  • Venezuela: Twenty first century's imperialism laboratory

    Laura Dogu and Washington’s regime-change playbook: Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on February 14, 2026 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    Laura Dogu, newly appointed U.S. envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicaragua and Honduras during periods of “social and political volatility.”

  • Freedom Rider: Media Silent as Trump Declares Wars

    Chaos: The Trump Doctrine for Latin America

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on November 13, 2025 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    The U.S., under Trump, is unapologetically an empire operating without pretense.

  • Washington has mobilized warships and aircraft to the Caribbean region. (army.mil)

    Will the U.S. attack Venezuela?

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on October 10, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Solidarity activist and analyst Roger Harris takes stock of the rapidly escalating U.S. military threats against Venezuela.

  • US air and military assets near Venezuela. (iejmedia)

    All elements in place for a U.S. strike on Venezuela

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on September 8, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Roger D. Harris and Joe Emersberger trace how U.S. imperialist strategy, from fake drug charges to naval deployments, sets the stage for an attack on Venezuela’s leadership.

  • Venezuelans went to the polls on May 25 to elect deputies for the National Assembly, as well as state governors and regional council legislators.

    Ballots and bias: How the press framed Venezuela’s regional and legislative elections

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on June 3, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Roger D. Harris analyzes Western media’s biased and dishonest coverage of Venezuela’s May 25 election and the sweeping Chavismo victory.

  • 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.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Roger Harris

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Roger Harris

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Roger Harris

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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