Geography Archives: Americas

The six justices who voted to criminalize the homeless have a combined net worth of $54 million. 

For the merchants of war, the collective pain and misery of whole nations is dwarfed by the lucrative deals of billions of dollars generated from weapons sales.

Baldwin theorizes whiteness as the psychology of empire.

The ‘saviour of free speech’ is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide. What he calls the ‘faaaaar left’ is in his crosshairs. It’ll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there.

Big oil and gas company Chevron is deeply entwined with the Israeli state.

Our economy and society are heavily dependent on unpaid care work, disproportionately performed by women.

Two secretive prison units that used to almost exclusively house people said to be connected to terrorism have expanded by nearly 80 percent in 15 years, and a new unit is on the way. Formerly incarcerated people say they have been used to punish dissent.

Diane Ravitch, author of “Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools”, has dug deep to uncover who the leaders of the nationwide public school privatization movement are and assembled a list that includes: Jeff Bezos, the Koch Brothers, the Walton Family, Bill Gates, Betsy DeVos, Michael Bloomberg, Laurene Powell Jobs, Eli Broad, Reed Hastings, and the Chamber of Commerce.

Kyle Ferrana details the brutal legacy of U.S. imperialism in the Pacific.

Cybersecurity has become a central element in Venezuela, in a context where computer attacks have not ceased since the presidential elections.

U.S. Big Tech corporations are like the feudal landlords of medieval Europe. These Silicon Valley monopolies own the digital land that the global economy is built on, and are charging higher and higher rents to use their privatized infrastructure.

Many of you know that the Yiddish word chutzpah means extreme self-confidence or audacity.

On Friday, ALBA Movements, an organization bringing together grassroots movements from 25 countries in the Americas, issued a statement rejecting the claims made by the presidents of Colombia and Brazil, who proposed the formation of a cohabitation government in Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected in the July 28 elections. 

Hamas political bureau member Sami Abu Zuhri on Saturday dismissed optimistic talk by U.S. President Joe Biden that a Gaza truce is nearer after negotiations in the Gulf emirate of Qatar.

Recent student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine prompted considerable media conversation.

Gus Speth – “My family and I spent 25 years in Washington DC. They were good years, and every morning I began with coffee and The Washington Post. The newspaper was a wonderful companion—and reliably progressive. But there is something going on there now on the editorial board that I find, well, weird.”

The ICJ’s authoritative ruling on the Israeli occupation makes clear that boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid are not only a moral imperative but also a legal obligation.

In light of recent imperialist aggressions, Chris Gilbert reflects on the challenges and complexities of using elections as a tool for socialist construction.

By denying parole and medical treatment, the U.S. prison system is sentencing its longest-held political prisoners to a slow death.

The Tricontinental presents a broad overview of the Latin American far right’s political, economic, and cultural programs and how the absence of a real left political project that secures better living conditions has thrown different fractions of the working class into the grip of neofascism.