Geography Archives: Americas

Trump backed down because the bond market was showing signs of severe stress that could lead to a credit squeeze, particularly for hedge funds that own a significant stock of U.S. bonds.

Defying Ecuador’s attempt to bar international monitors, election observers documented how Daniel Noboa’s contested victory, secured amid militarized polling stations and state violence, escalates the assault on Afro-Ecuadorian communities.

Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion.

As Trump threatens war on Iran, Washington weaponizes Diego Garcia–a Chagos island in the Indian Ocean built on ethnic cleansing, British colonialism, and military adventurism.

Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status.

Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland.

DONALD Trump has put off his proposed tariffs by ninety days; but countries like India have to respond to Trump’s measures whether now or after ninety days.

At least 38 people, including five paramedics, were killed by the U.S. bombing of the Ras Isa port in Hodeidah.

The executive order is chillingly titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It declares that the Smithsonian, once a symbol of “American excellence,” has become tainted by narratives that portray “American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”

Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike.

The Trump administration’s recent investigation of 60 schools for “antisemitic discrimination” appeared to target campus protests. But, a closer look shows it was driven by pro-Israel groups’ use of civil rights law to push a broad right-wing agenda.

On Monday, Harvard University president Alan Garber announced the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to crush political opposition, hand over control of critical departments to government oversight and generally establish a reign of ideological terror and right-wing thought control on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to end Cuba’s international medical brigades, which have provided essential healthcare to millions of people across the globe.

NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.

The attack on the Indigo 11 is part of a systematic effort to disrupt and contain the growing Palestine solidarity movement.

As a trade tariff war erupts across the globe Kevin Crane examines the prospects and challenges of the UK and European vehicle manufacturing sector.

Panama’s opposition parties accused the U.S. of launching a “camouflaged invasion” amid escalating tensions over the U.S. military presence in the country.

A federal judge has blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and Columbia University protest organizer, after his sudden arrest by immigration officials.

President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations–including his family business–at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees.