Geography Archives: Americas

There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.

Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism.

After connivance in the brutal assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse three years ago and then imposing its first feckless de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry and now his equally subservient successor, Garry Conille, U.S. imperialism in cahoots with the Haitian oligarchy is presently working to set in place a Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) with the same actors and sectors from Haiti’s political landscape that it has been using for decades.

In 1998, the head toxicologist at 3M estimated that a safe level of PFAS in human blood is about one part per billion. The average American’s blood has not double, not triple, but 30 times that amount.

Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions.

I have frequently explained that when I sat in the International Court of Justice and heard Israel’s lawyers tell lie after lie to justify or excuse the Gaza genocide, I could feel I was palpably in the presence of evil.

From the 1942 ‘American century’ to Trump’s ‘American carnage’, the U.S. has shifted from a post-WW2 boom to decline, facing political divides, economic crisis, poverty, and social decay.

Human history is rarely dull but we are living through a period in which pivotal change is taking place.

The ICJ ruling finding Israel’s occupation unlawful makes the first test for David Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’ clear: either Labour opposes dispossession and genocide, or it is complicit.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.

As Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians continues, so does the theft of Palestinian land. Real estate events that sell off illegal settlements acquired through settler violence in the West Bank happen in the U.S. with the aid and permission from local elected leaders.

Every year, Pew Research publishes a study on the U.S. population’s political priorities.

‘No toddler gets shot twice by mistake,’ said Dr. Mark Perlmutter.

The damage to Florida’s coral reef is irreversible, but that doesn’t mean we can give up fighting for it.

The latest Tricontinental dossier explores the possibilities that the current crisis of global capitalism creates for sovereign regional development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean and the importance of South-South alliances in this struggle.

As the United States’ imperial system and Western hegemony circles the drain, lucid thought is becoming a rare commodity. But there is hope.

The New York Times and the rest of the U.S. mainstream media downplayed, covered up, and even ignored the historic ICJ opinion declaring the Israeli occupation illegal.

The Venezuelan deputy minister for anti-blockade policies, William Castillo, has warned that now that there are ten days before the presidential elections, international media is intensifying its media warfare against Chavismo and Venezuela.

Taking down the “Soviet Menace” in America, (part 1) was, not a response to any real “national security threat,” but a very real threat to corporate profits and neocolonial domination by the U.S. ruling class.

HaYovel, a U.S. tax-deductible organization, is reaching out to “Christian Zionist” volunteers to work in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.