Geography Archives: Americas

Nearly 7,000 cases are confirmed or under investigation across 34 states since May 1, and states have reported at least 180 hospitalizations.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on June 26 triumphantly announced the “signing of the Trilateral Framework between Lebanon, Israel and the United States.”

On the 250 th anniversary of the founding of the United States, many in Hawai’i, the 50 th territory to “join”/acquire U.S. statehood, decided not to celebrate.

Internal Pentagon estimates put the real cost of the US war on Iran at $80-100 billion, far above the official $30 billion figure, as Washington’s original “weeks-long” timeline collapses into months with no clear exit.

Trump has threatened to deploy the military against the “enemy within” and has recently promoted the idea that “democratic socialism must be criminalized.”

Brazil’s government announced Thursday it will immediately initiate procedures under its reciprocity law in response to the 25% tariffs imposed by the United States on certain Brazilian products, while attributing the dispute to the family of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

The world consumes about 100 million barrels of oil per day [bpd]. Before the war on Iran some 20% of that used to pass from the Persian Gulf region through the Strait of Hormuz to the world markets.

The sanctions death toll, an estimated 40,000 in 2017-18 and more than 100,000 in 2019, according to CERP and UN expert Alfred de Zayas, respectively, never received attention from the media, but the victims of the quakes are portrayed as the government’s fault.

Washington reloads. So does the resistance—it is stronger, and angrier, and more united than it was on Feb. 28.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, framed by former Trump administration staffers and secretly endorsed by Trump himself, proposes changes in Medicare benefits that could destroy Medicare as we know it.

At the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s worth returning to the 27th and final complaint the Declaration of Independence makes against King George III.

The thirtieth anniversary of the 1996 election is therefore not merely a historical commemoration.

Left unmentioned in the editorials is that Bezos’ empire—via his space company Blue Origin and Amazon’s cloud computing arm, AWS—holds billions of dollars worth of Pentagon contracts.

The clearest things said about Graham Platner as he was forced to suspend his triumphantly buoyant campaign for a Maine Senate seat this week came from Graham Platner.

Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire cohort took a chainsaw to needed government programs allegedly to save money but ended up saving nothing.

Apolinario Mabini is the most neglected or ignored figure in the pantheon of heroes of the revolution against Spain and the United States.

Trump is using the authority that the Supreme Court appeared to give him in a decision last week allowing him to remove members of independent agencies, except for Federal Reserve governors.

The 30th AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention wrapped up in Minneapolis on June 10. One resolution in particular hints at a shift in its staunchly pro-imperialist record.

More and more, as an electoral left movement makes key wins in the lead-up to the November mid-terms, Trump will most likely ratchet up his anti-communist rhetoric, painting even the most rabid, establishment anticommunist Democrats as party to a nefarious communist plot. That has already included targeting more organized formations of the socialist and anti-imperialist left.

The Jewish settlers reportedly wielded U.S.-made rifles to intimidate the U.S. lawmaker and his delegation.