Geography Archives: Americas

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.

Abigail Spanberger follows the model of the CIA throughout the developing world.

One problem immediately reveals itself: what is identity and why does it matter?

The earthquake in Venezuela, heartbreaking by every measure, has been made far more lethal—both in its immediate impact and long-term consequences—by factors directly attributable to U.S. imperialism’s ongoing, multi-level assault on the country and its people.

Trump has suffered a series of setbacks in recent days in his efforts to influence the administration of state-run elections. 

The U.S. Southern Command dispatched the amphibious transport ship USS Fort Lauderdale and the littoral combat ship USS Billings to Venezuelan waters, along with C-17 Globemaster and C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. 

Lau Kin Chi: Both the U.S. and Iran said they have won the war, and so what do you think about these two proclamations? Who do you think won the war?

On June 24, Venezuela shook under the successive impact of two earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 on the Richter scale.

The bipartisan consensus for regime change against Iran hit the wall of Iranian resistance. But Trump is forced into talks while democrats attack him from the right and expose themselves as partners in crime.

Sunday’s rally came after months of labor solidarity efforts with detainees, who continue to face retaliation.

Washington issued a new general license related to relief efforts but has thus far maintained in place its sanctions regime targeting the Venezuelan economy.

Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought, narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task.

Postmaster General David Steiner defended the rule at a Senate hearing and dismissed accusations that the Postal Service was acting politically after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March restricting voting by mail.