Geography Archives: United States

Grayzone reporter Max Blumenthal also confronted Blinken, asking if he was ‘compromised by Israel’

In this series, we (BAR Book Forum) ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis.

Their message is clear: When Trump takes the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20, his job is to work for them.

U.S. imperialism in short believes that it can do whatever it likes, that it is a law unto itself.

Game-changing fires destroyed Paradise, California, in 2023, and Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2024—clear warnings, if any were still needed, that the climate catastrophe had arrived.

Trump has promoted a number of plans to make America strong—at other countries’ expense.

The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for imperialist and neo-liberal interests, like all of his white house predecessors.

We should talk about a malignant influence on Australia’s security which has long been harboured unquestioned–so-called independent think tanks.

Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.

Since 2022, the largest bird flu outbreak in history has raged across the United States.

A modern digital cold war & clash of civilizations.

The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of […]

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro awarded decorations to officials who are illegally sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union on January 10, after his swearing-in as the country’s constitutional president for the 2025-2031 term.

Our investigation in 2023 exposed how New York’s discipline system failed to hold abusive guards to account.

As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, many residents quickly recognized failures in local and state governments’ ability to protect them from hazardous air pollution.

A statement from Katherine Franke, a longtime Columbia Law professor who was terminated after defending student Gaza protests.

In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a buzz in the corporate media about President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on annexation.

Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.

Chris Bambery looks at the reasons for the new president’s threat to buy Greenland and finds there is military logic in the madness, and behind it the growing rivalry with China.

Beverly Hills billionaires, fires, climate change, and the ecocidal terraforming system that underpins the California way of life.