Huge scandal in Latin America: far-right election meddling specialist Fernando Cerimedo was arrested for trying to assassinate his ex-girlfriend. He oversaw disinformation campaigns for region’s conservative pro-U.S. presidents and has links to Trump admin.

Colombia’s ex President Gustavo Petro accused the USA and Israel of meddling in the election to put in power far-right leader Abelardo de la Espriella, a pro-Trump U.S. citizen and ally of drug traffickers.

Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. U.S. median wealth is quite low. This is the real data.

A global survey found people in most countries see the United States as the biggest threat to the world, and prefer China over the U.S. These are the results of the EU-backed Democracy Perception Index.

Reports suggest the U.S. economy may be on the verge of another financial crisis, with major problems in the $3 trillion private credit market. Economist Michael Hudson explains the dangers of Wall Street’s Ponzi schemes.

Iran is winning the war started by Trump. This is now admitted even in the Western media. Tehran has destroyed major U.S. military bases in West Asia, expelling American troops to Europe.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is altering the geopolitical order, and could cause a global economic crisis. Economist Michael Hudson discusses the shock in the oil market and Tehran’s challenge to U.S. dominance.

Militarization is increasing, transforming the Arctic from a once largely peaceful “exceptional” region into an additional front in Cold War Two, and a new arena for U.S. imperial ambition.

Cold War II is transforming the global system, with two competing visions: The U.S. seeks to revive colonialism and imperialist spheres of influence. China wants a multipolar order based on peace, sovereign equality, and win-win cooperation. Compare speeches by their top officials.

Self-declared “peacemaker” Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other U.S. leader. Now he plans to raise the military budget to $1.5 trillion—nearly the rest of the world’s defense spending combined.

Part of the U.S. empire’s strategy in this information war is to erase the Chinese people’s major contribution to the defeat of fascism and imperialism in WWII.

The United States has launched a full-frontal attack not only against Venezuela, but against all of Latin America–and even against the basic concept of sovereignty. Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on January 3 to bomb Venezuela, to kidnap its constitutional President Nicolás Maduro, and to send him to New York to be subjected to […]

Donald Trump imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela and admitted he wants to take its oil and give it to U.S. corporations: “We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out, and we want it back”.

María Corina Machado, the far-right Venezuelan coup leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, vowed “massive privatization”, offering to sell off $1.7 trillion of her country’s resources to U.S. corporations.

An analysis of Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, the economic impact of U.S. sanctions, and the similarities and differences with the successful Western regime-change war on Syria.

The Trump admin pressured countries to oppose a UN General Assembly resolution calling to end the illegal US embargo against Cuba. Only 7 voted against it. 165 member states (85%) supported the measure.

How do China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy work? How does it see democracy? Prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei explains in this sit-down interview with Ben Norton.

Economist Michael Hudson describes how China created an alternative to the Western neoliberal order, and how the Global South can challenge the rent extraction of US-centered financial colonialism.

A former U.S. secretary of state boasted, “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk”. Journalist Ben Norton and economist Michael Hudson discuss why the United States so strongly supports Israel.

The U.S. military is preparing for war on China. It has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is turning “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”. Silicon Valley Big Tech oligarchs are making hugely profitable investments.