Geography Archives: Americas

How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.

On Nov. 5, voters in 10 states were presented with ballot initiatives on abortion with seven states passing pro-abortion rights measures, including in states with currently restrictive abortion laws as well as in states carried by Donald Trump. 

This should dash the hopes of Trump supporters everywhere that this time their guy really will end the wars and drain the swamp.

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam’s premier from 1954 to 1963, was a Cold War version of Volodymyr Zelensky, an American-subsidized ruler who was fawned upon by leading U.S. politicians and the U.S. media despite causing the ruin of his own country.

Donald J. Trump is president yet again, and while the focus must shift toward the future, the only rational response to Trump’s victory is radical action.

John Rees on why Trump won.

Many people now live in homes and rely on infrastructure that are owned by pension funds, insurance companies, and banks.

Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris must be a wake up call to Black people. The Democratic Party is a dead end and a movement killer. Our survival depends on getting that corrupt wing of the duopoly out of our lives and out of our politics.

VA columnist Andreína Chávez raises alarms about the escalating threats of mercenary invasions in Venezuela, pointing to the role the U.S. has played.

For the last six decades, Cuba has been on the receiving end of myriad sanctions by the United States government. This blockade has proved devastating to human life.

Turns out campaigning on the promise of continuing a genocide while courting endorsements from war criminals like Dick Cheney is not a great way to get progressives to vote for you.

Simply put, lawfare is war by other means that achieves conquest using laws and judges instead of bombs and bullets.

The U.S. empire is addicted to a belief in its exceptionalism, grounded in aggression both at home and abroad, and finding it hard to admit mistakes.

Mainstream western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist.

The fate of billions whom the U.S. dominates and oppresses is effectively exchanged for a few possible reforms in domestic policies that affect parts of middle-class America.

Over 160 media workers have been killed and 60 detained as the methodical destruction of the brutalized Strip continues.

Steve Ellner: “The basic contradiction of capitalism is at the point of production, the contradiction between the interests of the working class and those of capitalists.”

Starting at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, October 23, pro-Palestine students at Tulane University quietly entered the library and took up space at nearly every table on the first floor.

The measure de-privatizes two large Mexican companies, one dedicated to the extraction and commercialization of oil, and the other dedicated to providing electricity and internet to Mexicans.