Geography Archives: Americas

CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC.

Trump gives Israel “the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza” – new manager, same empire.

The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.

Trump signed an executive order declaring all state laws that address climate change to be null and void.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right myths about South Africa’s ‘anti-white’ government is part of a brazen attempt to build a white international that runs from Pretoria to Washington through Tel Aviv.

Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.

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 […]

A week after U.S. President Trump launched his economic war against the world under the banner of so-called “reciprocal tariffs,” China will have a tariff of 104 percent imposed on its goods starting today.

During his inaugural address, Donald Trump said that he would “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley,” who “made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent—he was a natural businessman—and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did including the Panama Canal.”

Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attacks on Social Security aren’t about efficiency.

Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a U.S. war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’

Jennifer Berkshire has been writing insightfully about the rightwing attacks on public schools and on education for many years. S

The great institutions of liberal America are falling to Trump like dominoes, one by one.

In a scathing letter, Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, blasting Columbia University’s role in his abduction and the targeting of other student activists by the Trump administration.

These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.

Sure, who among us has not accidentally massacred 15 medical workers and buried them and their vehicles in a shallow grave from time to time? We’re only human, mistakes happen.

While Trump dedicates himself to making every conservative fantasy come true, millions wonder who will save them from the onslaught of the right wing fever dream. The answer is no one but ourselves.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently traveled to Guyana where he threatened military action against Venezuela.

Because the Jewish community has not shown the minimal moral capacity to call out genocide I cannot take concern around alleged pro-Palestine antisemitism seriously as it appears to just be a strategy to aid and abet Israel’s crimes.

Trump is bringing the contradictions of Canadian climate policy clearly into view.