Geography Archives: Americas

As U.S. lawmakers’ agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a U.S. buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a silver lining.

The Groundwork Collaborative’s leader also said that “the Department of Justice should criminally prosecute Scott Sheffield,” the former Pioneer CEO whom the FTC blocked from joining ExxonMobil’s board.

An emerging complaint the corporate media have against the nationwide—and now international—peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams may well be the very worst of the Black misleadership class.

American rapper Macklemore has released a single titled “Hind’s Hall”, the name given to Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall by anti-genocide protesters in honor of the six year-old Hind Rajab who was murdered in Gaza by Israeli forces.

A Cuban intellectual examines the consequences of the imperialist blockades on both Cuba and Venezuela.

The crackdowns on pro-Palestine protesters recast protected speech as harassment, and have little to do with protecting Jewish students from antisemitic threats.

Superficially in the recent period the U.S. has attempted to display two apparently contradictory sides of its policy to China.

Antony Blinken says Israel is losing the PR war because of social media.

Blinken knew exactly what he was doing, he could have delayed the release but he chose, instead to release the State Department’s “2023 Country Report” on the eve of his arrival in China.

This blatant political chicanery would penalize political speech protected by the First Amendment.

The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.

Robinson: If Western states have their reasons for being cagey of foreign influences, so too do those in other countries.

As peace activists occupied common spaces on campuses across the country, some in corporate media very clearly took sides, portraying student protesters as violent, hateful and/or stupid. CNN offered some of the most striking of these characterizations.

Lean production, introduced in the 1980s from Japanese automakers, caught on in many U.S. industries.

Created by Hugo Chávez, the Great Housing Mission has reached its 13th anniversary providing housing to working-class people.

Wave of campus occupations launched at six unis.

From universities to grassroots movements worldwide, young people are fighting back against the complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestians, setting up encampments and facing repression with resilience. This resistance is rooted in a long tradition to impose clarity upon a world encrusted by compromise, from the movement against apartheid in South Africa to China’s May Fourth Movement.

Southern politicians who sold their souls to the corporations and banks are a bit rattled right now, and who can blame them? Volkswagen workers won big in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when 73% of plant workers voted to join the United Auto Workers Union.

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is clamoring for the violent suppression of McGill students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is an odious escalation in the Israel lobby’s bid to suppress democracy at the prestigious university.