Geography Archives: Americas

Israel’s right to self-defense and other tall tales for big children in high office.

Trump unleashes sweeping deportation plan, sparking legal battles and nationwide protests.

As the Gaza Freedom Flotilla approached Palestinian waters, a British spy flight took off from a British military base on Cyprus to surveil Gaza. Despite the recent narrative shift on relations with Israel, Britain remains deeply involved in the genocide of Palestinians, its efforts centred around its RAF Akrotiri military base on Cyprus, using it to launch these spy flights, which send intelligence, including targeting data, directly to the Israeli military.

Popular resistance against the Trump administration in Los Angeles and other cities is a very positive development and one that Black people must embrace.

SENDING more RAF jets to the Middle East underlines Britain’s involvement in Israel’s escalating aggression in the region.

For today I have been asked to speak a bit about my country, Puerto Rico, and the socioeconomic crisis that is currently developing there.1 Given the time constraints, I want to provide you with a brief overview of what is being experienced there by the victims of the crisis. I want to also speak a […]

Censorship in Defense Department K-12 schools violates the First Amendment.

Hellfire missiles would have been used for precision strikes by Israel during Iran attack, U.S. officials say.

Putin is much too quick not to recognize that President Donald Trump is both a fraudster and an enemy.

For days, the world watched as California burned. Cars set ablaze, crowds being flash-banged, rubber bullets flying, smoke in the air as protesters and reporters run for cover, gasping for air and hurrying to put their masks on. The scenes on the ground gripped us all.

The following remarks by Paul Le Blanc were delivered at the May 31 evening session of the four-day Marx is’ Muss Kongress 2025 that was held in Berlin and organized by marx21, a left-wing current in Die Linke (the Left Party), which drew 1200 activists. These remarks are now first appearing in digital form, with the author’s authorization, simultaneously on LINKS and Communis. Both sites previously published another contribution by Paul Le Blanc to the event.

District Judge Jon. S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco issued an order on June 9 granting a preliminary injunction against several provisions of three of President Trump’s executive orders adversely affecting transgender people.

An Israeli official said Tel Aviv received a “clear green light” for the attack from Washington.

President Gustavo Petro exposes a U.S.-supported far-right coup attempt against his progressive government and calls for a popular consultation on labor and social reforms as essential steps toward peace and justice in Colombia.

In the early decades of the twenty-first century, education has become a frontline in the ideological struggle over the future of global capitalism. The coordinated assault on teachers, curriculum, and institutions of public learning is not an isolated culture war but a structural feature of neoliberal governance. In this context, the pedagogical philosophy of Paulo […]

“The standoff on the streets of Los Angeles,” warned critics, “shows how truly eager Trump and his administration are to turn America’s vast warmaking powers inward on the president’s domestic foes.”

Sheinbaum stressed that Mexico cannot and should not intervene in U.S. politics, because it is part of Mexican diplomacy. She said she understands when protests are peaceful, but reiterated her call not to resort to violence in demonstrations.

Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the occupied Palestinian territories and hosts the show ‘Palestine Files’. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’.

Nicaragua, with Chinese financing, launches its largest solar plant to date—powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on infrastructure for social good.

Rallying under the banner “IAM Max,” 200 union members and supporters gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, on June 6 to demand the release of Maximo Londonio, a member of Machinists (IAM) Local Lodge 695 who has been imprisoned by ICE since mid-May.