Geography Archives: Americas

A collection of more than a dozen people’s history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass’s speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.

Corey DeAngelis is on a mission to demonize public schools—and promote voucher programs that benefit his wealthy backers.

Far from ending the genocide in Gaza, Israel continues its assault with the military and diplomatic backing of Western states.

A deep dive into the complexities and uncertainties surrounding Venezuela’s July 28 presidential elections.

It may be time to think the unthinkable: all the signs are pointing to the West preparing to launch a proper war in Europe. Once started it could bring, for the first time in living memory, millions of Western civilians into uniform and see the cities of the West attacked. Preposterous? Jumping the Shark? Listen to what the leaders in the West are saying. The time to stop the madness is now, not once the elites drive us into the abyss and civilians are stripped of all rights to oppose.

What’s ambiguous about Israel’s nuclear policy is not whether the country has these weapons, but how it plans to use them.

While tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods grab headlines, extreme heat is the top weather-related killer, says FEMA.

This month brought yet another record-breaking spate of flash floods and deadly heatwaves across the U.S.

Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement.

[Britannica’s revisionist] distortions of the history of the Vietnamese struggle are just as radical and just as misleading [as those about the Soviet Union]. Here we may draw some valuable lessons about the hidden content of form: how apparently neutral principles of organization may shape meaning.

There is no path to a renewable future which leaves American hegemony in place.

The first wave of UN-backed Kenyan police officers has arrived in Haiti with around 400 landing in Port-au-Prince.

The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable.

Recent announcements by the U.S. and NATO threaten to escalate the conflict in Ukraine and create the most dangerous threat to world peace since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Contextualizing the Re-occupation of Barnhart Island in Shared Legacies of Struggle.

More than half of the 800,000 women under community supervision live in states with abortion restrictions, making the path to access more difficult—or impossible.

Holocaust survivors say using the Holocaust to justify genocide in Gaza and repress student protest on college campuses is a complete insult to the Holocaust’s memory.

At long last the WikiLeaks founder is free. For all those who care about freedom of speech it’s time to celebrate, writes TIM DAWSON of the International Federation of Journalists.

New defence policy promises to expand NORAD, NATO amid vulnerable oceanic ecosystem.

CounterSpin interview with Kennedy Smith on dollar store invasion