When we think “immigrants in America” we rarely consider those who are privileged and weaponized in service of American Empire.
Geography Archives: Americas
South America, Central America, United States & Canada
Flying above the clouds: the U.S. military and climate change
Climate change is occurring, highlighted by dramatically shifting weather patterns and ever more deadly storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires. And the evidence is overwhelming that it is driven by the steady increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide and methane, produced by our fossil fuel-based economic system.
Extinction Rebellion: We need to talk about the future
This is a love letter to Extinction Rebellion.
Chile over 1 Million people march in Chile’s largest protest
Protests that started over a hike in public transport fares boiled into massive marches. The government responded with heavy repression. At least 18 people have been killed, hundreds have been injured, and over 7,000 arrested.
Indigenous organizations propose a People’s Parliament
They seek to develop an economic model to prevent the application of IMF policies against the Ecuadoreans.
Bolivia on alert: Coup plot underway!
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounces destabilization campaign and violence.
There’s something that’s ours on those streets and we’re going to take it back
In Lebanon, it was a tax on the use of WhatsApp; in Chile, it was the rise in subway fares; in Ecuador and in Haiti, it was the cut in fuel subsidies. Each of these conjunctures brought people to the streets and then, as these people flooded the streets, more and more joined them.
Whitewashing neoliberal repression in Chile and Ecuador
If the first casualty of war is truth, its self-anointed purveyors in the international media have much blood on their hands indeed.
What the Chicago Teachers Union and United Auto Workers strikes teach us
The strikes have enabled the workers to feel their real strength. These two strikes give us a sign of the role the trade unions, the most powerful organizations of working people, will play in the future.
America sponsors far-right holocaust revisionist exhibit in Kiev (Part I)
Why is a major federal agency funded by Congress helping push this bile on the Ukrainian people?
Neoliberalism, hell no!
Former Vice-President Elias Jaua looks at the current anti-neoliberal uprisings in Ecuador and Argentina through the lens of decades of similar struggle in Venezuela.
United States foreign policy: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Mapping out the connections between the initiation of the permanent war economy, the drive for US empire, and today’s factional disputes and similarities among political elites.
USAID funds salaries of Venezuelan politicians as it doubles down on the coup
The payment of Mr. Guaidó’s representatives is a serious conflict of interest. Does the Guaidó team represent the Venezuelan people or the interests of the government that is paying their salaries? It is a point worth reiterating: a foreign politician is being paid by the United States to influence policy in the United States.
Thoughts on impeachment
The main impeachment thrust aims at minor events in the Ukraine. The whole approach ignores, indeed covers over the fact, that the whole U.S. policy of violently turning the Ukraine into a U.S.-dominated satrapy and advanced base was achieved by a Democratic administration.
Phony progressives follow Trump lead on Venezuela
So-called progressives sound just like Donald Trump when they describe Venezuela’s elected government as a “dictatorship,” said Nicholas Evan Ayala, co-editor of Anti-Conquista. “A lot of Democrats pretend to be anti-war, yet fail to see that every intervention they advocate follows a long history of US evil…leading to the deaths of millions of people,” said […]
The U.S. armed and funded extremists in Syria
The US armed and funded extremists in Syria to overthrow the Syrian government and the media cheered. Those same extremists then attacked the Kurds on Turkey’s behalf to the horror of the same media. Now what?
More than 30,000 teachers and staff strike in Chicago, Illinois
Pickets appeared at Chicago Public Schools city-wide Thursday morning as 32,000 teachers and staff struck for the first time since 2012. Educators are fighting for smaller class sizes and more nurses, librarians, social workers and other support staff, along with increased spending to improve conditions in all schools.
WSJ, NYT celebrate ‘Shale Revolution’ for Investor class, despite its leading to our doom
It’s not hard to figure out that corporate media represent the perspectives and interests of a small elite investor class of the U.S. population, rather than its vast working class majority. Simply compare the size of the “Business” section in major newspapers like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times—ostensibly on opposite sides […]
Socialist feminism and the Communal State
Blanca Eekhout is the Minister of People’s Power for the Communes and Social Movements of Venezuela and a woman linked to revolutionary militancy long before President Hugo Chávez came to power, whose team she was part of.
The IMF does not fight financial fires but douses them with gasoline
On 13 October, Moreno had to promise to withdraw Decree 833. Pressure from the streets, from the United Nations, and from the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference forced him to the table, where a televised discussion was held. The indigenous leaders won the ‘debate’–they were much more prepared and far more humane than the president and his […]
