Bolivian President Evo Morales reiterated today the existence of armed invasion plans against Venezuela and the head of State, Nicolas Maduro, by U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration.
Geography Archives: Americas
South America, Central America, United States & Canada
Trump’s “infrastructure” plan: pump up the Pentagon
This year alone will bring total spending on the Pentagon and related agencies (like the Department of Energy where work on nuclear warheads takes place) to $716 billion.
Nuclear power: private profits, social costs
Nuclear power is enormously expensive and yet successive U.S. governments, including that of President Donald Trump, have supported the industry in many ways. The net result is that various costs are passed on to society at large, while the profits accruing from this pursuit are privatized.
Love me I’m a liberal – updated for Trump
Phil Ochs’s song “Love Me I’m a Liberal” updated with some of my own words since the election of DJT.
Nicaragua, unraveling a plot
The United States’ National Endowment for Democracy distributed some 4.2 million dollars in Nicaragua, between 2014 and 2017, to train “new leaders” to overthrow the Sandinista government | Francisco Arias Fernández*
U.S. body ‘laid groundwork for insurrection’ in Nicaragua
A publication funded by the U.S. government’s regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy, boasts of spending millions of dollars “laying the groundwork for insurrection.”
American behavioral fascism, anti-fascism and democracy
Dark Thoughts from Paris on a Hot and Sunny Friday.
How the West and its allies sabotaged Venezuela
Venezuela and Colombia differ in their relations and involvement with the U.S. government and its functions.
Ocasio-Cortez’s win: opportunities and challenges for the left
Ocasio’s victory in the Democratic primaries is a sign of increasing openness to socialism among U.S. voters. The left may squander the opportunity revealed by her win if the wrong lessons are drawn.
Amazon’s fusion with the state shows neoliberalism’s drift to neo-fascism
MPN spoke to Yasha Levine, the author of “Surveillance Valley,” and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster about the rise of the Amazon.com empire and the merger of Big Data, finance capitalism, and the U.S. state apparatus.
The U.S. is a world leader in income and wealth inequality
A recent article published in the American Economic Review, “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world,” draws upon the World Wealth and Income Database to examine trends in global inequality.
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Dystopia
What is the structural basis for Trump’s anti-immigrant dystopia? How are anti-immigrant policies rooted in US imperialist relations with Mexico?
Escraches come north: “Incivility” or an end to impunity?
We need to remember that these protests aren’t about political views: they’re about government officials violating international law, U.S. treaty obligations, and basic human rights.
Why Venezuela reporting is so bad
Review of Alan MacLeod’s Bad News From Venezuela
From the news media to Hollywood, powerful elites control the messages the masses receive
IN EARLY May the Disney blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War took over $1 billion from box offices around the world.
Puerto Rico’s inalienable right to self-determination and independence reiterated in the UN
This Monday saw a session of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, and the approval of a draft resolution that would call upon the U.S. to facilitate the island’s self‑determination.
Worker rights in the United States
Ambassador Nikki Haley’s decision last week to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council is remarkable. The United States is the first nation in the body’s 12-year history to voluntarily remove itself from membership in the council while serving as a member.
America has quit the human rights business
One more illustration of the decline of U.S. influence on the world stage.
Has Donald Trump already changed U.S. trade?
Trump is threatening to dismantle the current world trading system, but in his first year US trading patterns show strong continuity with the previous administration.
Nicaragua’s crisis – the latest stage in a permanent war
The opposition will probably delay dismantling the roadblocks and continue their terror attacks to extort maximum concessions from the government.
