Geography Archives: Americas

As Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson push this project through, they are continuing to make the people of Chicago complicit in war crimes across the globe.

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, Inequality & Change Center. Placing current developments in broad historical context, Pickard situates today’s media crisis within a century-long struggle to establish and maintain genuine public media against the overpowering dominance and relentless pushback of private corporate media.

CounterSpin interview with Gina Plata-Nino on food aid cuts.

The controversial decision was announced by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry on social media.

The revolutionary road opened on 26 July 1953, when a group of young rebels led by the 26-year-old Fidel attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

As their private jets descend on Toronto to promote a billionairist agenda will environmentalists confront Carney’s ecocidal CEO summit?

The revolutionary legacy of Fidel Castro, who would have turned 100 this week, reminds us that breaking free from neocolonial plunder demands the rigorous construction of productive capacity and an unyielding commitment to human dignity.

One year ago today, Donald Trump launched a federal takeover of Washington, D.C. intended to soft-launch martial law and pacify a city with a deep revolutionary history.

Editor’s note: for the next 2 weeks Resumen Latinoamericano in English will be reporting from Havana, facing the same obstacles of connectivity and power outages, sponsored by the U.S. blockade, that the Cuban media faces on a daily basis.

On December 22, 1975, Fidel Castro spoke to more than a million Cuban people in Havana’s plaza of the Revolution. It was the closing day of the first congress of the communist party of Cuba. He spoke about the importance of the congress and reemphasized Cuba’s unwavering support for not only Angola but all of Africa.

Though it is striving to fulfill the White House’s demand for more arrests, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still falling short of the Trump administration’s announced goal of 2,000 arrests per day.

Nuuk states that the landing of the drilling equipment was never authorized, even as the energy company plans to begin drilling in October.

Despite the heroic struggle of the people of Hiroshima, 81 years ago today, and of Nagasaki, the horrors of 1945 have too often been forgotten or ignored, says Peter Kuznick.

Tobi Lütke’s remarks reflect a long tradition of elite hostility to democratic equality.

Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez Alava and sociologist María Páez Victor rejected allegations that Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and the Chavista leadership betrayed President Nicolás Maduro.

The energy blockade that the Trump administration has imposed on Cuba is hammering the island.

Japanese workers get the bill first: a weaker currency, costlier food and fuel, and wages that buy less. They had no say in the war being waged in their name.

Johanna Fernandez left a powerful and revolutionary legacy through her scholarship and activism.

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women.

Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s book, “Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power,” offers a powerful critique of how the Israel Lobby subverts democracy at home and ensures U.S. support for Israeli aggression, apartheid, and genocide abroad.