Geography Archives: Americas

Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s book, “Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power,” offers a powerful critique of how the Israel Lobby subverts democracy at home and ensures U.S. support for Israeli aggression, apartheid, and genocide abroad.

Trump has escalated his openly imperialist rhetoric against Venezuela, portraying the South American country as a neocolonial possession whose sovereign resources Washington may plunder as the “spoils” of military aggression.

The nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in the deaths and fatal injuries of more than 210,000 people, who either died instantaneously or within months.

The truth is, I had promised myself I would avoid the temptation to analyze the statements and behavior of Argentina’s president. The reason: to keep myself as far away as possible from a figure as despicable as the occupant of the Casa Rosada.

The congressional grilling of former White House Covid advisor Anthony Fauci, and the resulting editorial responses, weren’t good faith inquiries into the pandemic.

For over six decades, Cuba has been cast as a strategic threat not because of its military power, but because its enduring sovereignty and resistance to US dominance challenge Washington’s control over the hemisphere.

What happened in the final hours before the first atomic attack.

He was one of thousands of immigrants arrested during Operation Metro Surge.

Decades of determined U.S. efforts to foment antagonism between the vast neighbours have come spectacularly undone, due to the sheer weight of geopolitical reality.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro this Monday presented evidence of an algorithmic and systematic electoral fraud that allegedly altered the results of seven million votes to impose Abelardo de la Espriella as elected-President.

In the United States, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and others have stepped in to bolster cash-strapped education departments.

At least 60,000 people have evacuated eastern Washington as uncontrolled wildfires destroy hundreds of homes and continue spreading around Spokane. The emergency has prompted a statewide disaster declaration while smoke and elevated fire risks affect much of the western United States.

The outgoing president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, made a trip to Cuba on Friday, his last trip abroad before his term ends and he hands over the presidency to far-right Abelardo de la Espriella, who will take office on August 7 in Cali.

Israel is home to droves of international criminals accused or found guilty in a second country of various crimes. Among them is Tomás Zerón, accused mastermind of the kidnapping and murder of 43 Mexican students in Ayotzinapa.

We must push back against ideological containment that blocks the development of rebellious thinking and movements of resistance.

A new Minnesota law banning the use of technology that creates sexually explicit images or videos of a person without their consent will go into effect Saturday after a federal judge rejected the request of an Elon Musk AI company to delay the law’s enforcement.

It’s said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland.

Congressional Republicans want to sabotage the capital city’s incoming progressive government, and the owners of the DoorDash food delivery app, upset over having to pay their fair share of taxes in D.C., are helping them do it.

In 49 states, the number of people enrolled in Obamacare plans has declined since Congress made coverage more expensive by allowing federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year.