Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, Syria and Iran are criminal, but Joe Biden vows to be even worse.
Geography Archives: Americas
South America, Central America, United States & Canada
Divergent recoveries—pandemic edition
The existing alphabet soup of possible recoveries—V, U, W, and so on (which I discussed back in April)—is clearly inadequate to describe what has been taking place in the United States in recent months.
Saving nature: Overpopulation is not the primary problem
In a period of ecological and climate crises, figuring out ‘how to save nature’ is perhaps the principal challenge facing our planet. Yet, a largely unchallenged view is the misconception that overpopulation is among the primary drivers of these crises.
Colleges layoff underpaid adjuncts then challenge their unemployment claims
Unemployment insurance laws were developed prior to the widespread use of contingent faculty, and were designed to prevent K-12 teachers and full-time college professors from collecting unemployment during scheduled term breaks and summer vacations when they weren’t teaching. In nearly all states, these laws are being used to prevent adjuncts, who have since become the […]
Reform won’t end police sexual violence
The legal right to sexual violence is part and parcel of policing. This will not end until we eliminate police discretion over women’s bodies.
Defunding police and challenging militarism, a necessary response to their “battle space”
The excessive use of force and killings of unarmed Black Americans by police has fueled a popular movement for slashing police budgets, reimagining policing, and directing freed funds to community-based programs that provide medical and mental health care, housing, and employment support to those in need. This is a long overdue development.
Portland: “Wall of Moms” mobilizes to protect protests from police violence
Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, injuring many.
Influential DC-based Ukrainian think tank hosts neo-Nazi activist convicted for racist violence
The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation hosted notorious neo-Nazi militant Diana Vynohradova in a webinar this month. While legitimizing Ukrainian white supremacists, the think tank has forged close ties with foreign policy elites in Washington.
‘No tactics… just seemed like a gang’: Navy Veteran speaks out after attack by secret police in viral video viewed nearly 10 million times
They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them,” said Christopher David.
With U.S. support, Taiwan planted deception about warning World Health Org of COVID
Taiwan’s claim that it provided early warning to the WHO about COVID and “human-to human-transmission” has been exploited by the Trump administration to attack the multi-lateral body and turn up the heat on China. There’s just one problem: it’s totally false.
Essential—and expendable—Mexican labor
Lear Corporation—one of the world’s largest auto parts manufacturers—rose to position 148 on Fortune magazine’s famous list of the 500 largest firms in 2018. It operates with roughly 148,000 workers spread across 261 locations.
Solidarity with the people in the streets of Portland
Against the Federal Occupation and the Police.
Call for investigations into federal operatives in Portland
“The jarring reports of federal law enforcement officers grabbing peaceful protestors off the street should alarm every single American. This is not the way a government operates in a functioning democracy.”
COVID-19: Rot exposed by pandemic augurs a future of fear
Vijay Prashad raises deep questions about the exhaustion of the global capitalist system in a time of great human suffering.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s regular press conference on July 15, 2020
O’Brien should really read up on Marxist-Leninist works. The people’s position is the fundamental political position of Marxist parties. People are the creators of history and the true driving force behind historical progress.
Paralysed companies rescued by an ‘army’ of volunteer workers
The 2270-strong Productive Workers’ Army has recuperated 14 state-run firms that had been run into the ground.
History and Black Consciousness: The Political Culture of Black America
Many people from divergent ethnic backgrounds, speaking various languages, and possessing different cultures now share a common experience of inequality in the United States. Yet there is an absence of unity among these constituencies, in part because their leaders are imprisoned ideologically and theoretically by the assumptions and realities of the past.
Why government mostly helps people who need it the least—even during a crisis
The system is the problem.
The great American firewall: On the question of censorship
It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology.
Leaked documents show police knew far-right extremists were the real threat at protests, not “ANTIFA”
We’ve seen the way that the police responded to nonviolent civil disobedience at Standing Rock or in Ferguson versus the laissez-faire approach they’ve used in a number of these white supremacist riots. They clearly can regulate their behavior. Why they choose not to when it’s groups protesting police violence is what I think local government […]
