Geography Archives: Americas

With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeau’s government.

Deborah Veneziale provides a useful analysis of the 2024 US elections.

Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are a declaration of war against the entire working class. These choices are a domestic version of the Pentagon’s “shock and awe” invasion tactics and are meant to smash any opposition.

Irrespective of the rhetoric that characterized the campaign, the world’s majority will continue to be compelled to struggle against imperialist exploitation and oppression.

A new report from Britain’s Sky News provides details of Adnan al-Bursh’s death by torture in Israel’s Ofer Prison.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate crisis and puts marginalized people directly in the path of the destruction it causes.

The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.

On election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed. 

The political philosophy of classical liberalism, which provided the basis for liberal political praxis, was sustained by a long tradition of bourgeois economic thought, straddling both classical political economy and neo-classical economics.

“Every single Democrat who voted for this is not taking the threat of Trump remotely seriously and should be disqualified from any leadership positions moving forward,” said Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman.

UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese speaks to Tribune about Israel’s genocide as a form of ‘colonial erasure’—and why the Palestinian cause is a symbol of resistance against all forms of exploitation.

Russia has announced a $60 million diesel shipment to Cuba during bilateral meeting in Havana.

How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.

On Nov. 5, voters in 10 states were presented with ballot initiatives on abortion with seven states passing pro-abortion rights measures, including in states with currently restrictive abortion laws as well as in states carried by Donald Trump. 

This should dash the hopes of Trump supporters everywhere that this time their guy really will end the wars and drain the swamp.

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam’s premier from 1954 to 1963, was a Cold War version of Volodymyr Zelensky, an American-subsidized ruler who was fawned upon by leading U.S. politicians and the U.S. media despite causing the ruin of his own country.

Donald J. Trump is president yet again, and while the focus must shift toward the future, the only rational response to Trump’s victory is radical action.

John Rees on why Trump won.

Many people now live in homes and rely on infrastructure that are owned by pension funds, insurance companies, and banks.