Geography Archives: Americas

PragerU is trying to take over American schools.

State legislatures can intervene to help control costs.

The question every country in the Global South must ask is simple: who controls, who benefits, and who pays?

The U.S. has arrived at a crucial juncture for public health and climate governance.

Fire survivors say using prediction markets to gamble on wildfire is “morally reprehensible.”

This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career as a local administrator, Rendina walks us through the decades he spent supervising county initiatives, sketching out how local experimentation actively moved with and against broad macroeconomic shifts at the federal level.

Phosphate fertilizer is essential to industrial agriculture. Washington’s war on Iran has disrupted the routes that carry Gulf oil, gas, petrochemicals and fertilizer to the world market.

Amazingly the world trading arrangements are such that the inferior mode of adjustment is carried out whenever there are imbalances, and not the superior mode of adjustment. This is the irrationality of the world trading arrangements under which we live.

Factoring the true cost of U.S. capitalism and imperialism requires mapping what historian David Michael Smith terms the “endless holocausts” of U.S. empire.

The ground had hardly stopped shaking before Washington began advancing its agenda.

New Yorkers elected progressives and democratic socialists up and down the ballot in June’s Democratic primary, in what even critics acknowledged was “an historic near-sweep”.

White Helmets’ deployment to Venezuela is portrayed as a humanitarian mission that also advances Western influence through parallel state-building and regime change.

Every right workers and oppressed people hold was won through struggle. No worker can depend on the courts to defend rights that only struggle can protect.

Venezuela is rebuilding amid an information war that obscures the effects of sanctions, frozen assets, and decades of U.S. economic warfare–and turns human suffering into another pretext to discredit the Bolivarian process.

Asserts Free Speech Rights Were Violated.

Cuba’s future need not be reduced to a choice between bureaucratic centralization and private capital accumulation.

What the Indian Wars Teach Us about Today’s Forever Wars.

CounterSpin interview with Seth Stern on criminalizing dissent.

These military attacks deep inside Russia are in reality also aimed by the United States against China and against the Global South.

When Texas Governor Greg Abbott was promoting vouchers, he usually accused the public schools of “indoctrinating” students.