Geography Archives: Americas

Colombia’s ex President Gustavo Petro accused the USA and Israel of meddling in the election to put in power far-right leader Abelardo de la Espriella, a pro-Trump U.S. citizen and ally of drug traffickers.

The following article takes the two chains apart–four degrees of hedged separation in the British case, and in the American one the discovery that socialists are interested in socialism.

An eye-opening glimpse at the links between two congressional committees and more than 100 defense contractors, consultants, and lobbyists.

We have to get back the kind of public intellectuals, real left intellectuals, Marxist intellectuals who are not just academics.

The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

Currently, there are 36 liquefied natural gas terminals and expansion projects proposed, under construction or actively operating in the United States, with 28 concentrated in the Gulf Coast.

Siege, survival, and the dialectics of Venezuelan sovereignty.

204 Atomic Bombs, 66 Urban Areas. “Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”

One of the most persistent and recycled claims in anti-communist “left” discourse is the way Black radical scholarship is selectively invoked to discredit Marxism itself.

Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. U.S. median wealth is quite low. This is the real data.

A lot of social media users have been wondering why their feeds have been filled with far-right, often racist, content. For me, it started with more conservative media outlets and Republican politicians in my feed.

Former Conindustria President Luigi Pisella, who is also a member of the Venezuelan government-created Special Commission for the Evaluation and Classification of Public Assets, has revealed that Washington retained approximately U.S. $4.7 billion of Venezuela’s oil-export income during the first half of 2026 as “payment” for the U.S. military operation that resulted in the January 3 bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.

The Indo-U.S. Trade Agreement as it had been negotiated earlier, before its basis was knocked out by a court ruling on Trump tariffs, had been an “unequal treaty”, allowing the U.S. to charge much higher tariffs on Indian exports than the other way round, and stipulating amounts of American goods that India had to buy, but not the other way around.

All of us hoped that our brigade would not only build popular power but also serve as a springboard for recharging Venezuela’s socialist project.

“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”

As Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson push this project through, they are continuing to make the people of Chicago complicit in war crimes across the globe.

Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, Inequality & Change Center. Placing current developments in broad historical context, Pickard situates today’s media crisis within a century-long struggle to establish and maintain genuine public media against the overpowering dominance and relentless pushback of private corporate media.

CounterSpin interview with Gina Plata-Nino on food aid cuts.

The controversial decision was announced by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry on social media.

The revolutionary road opened on 26 July 1953, when a group of young rebels led by the 26-year-old Fidel attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.