The same American myths that drove frontier expansion now support closing the borders.
Subjects Archives: Fascism
Spooks turned Spox: U.S. media now filled with former intelligence agents
After years in the shadows overseeing espionage, kill programs, warrantless wiretapping, entrapment, psyops and other covert operations, national security establishment retirees are are turning to a new line of work where they can carry out their imperial duties.
How Venezuela defeated Washington’s coup attempt at the United Nations
An inside look at how Venezuelan diplomats stymied a US attempt to revoke their credentials at the UN and shatter their nation’s sovereignty.
Bolsonaro’s highway project targets heart of Amazon region
Amazon researchers said the repaved road would trigger an explosion of deforestation in Amazonas, currently Brazil’s best preserved rainforest state precisely because it has few good roads.
Trump delivers fascist tirade at United Nations
Since taking office in 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump has used his annual speech at the UN General Assembly to denounce socialism, promote nationalism and xenophobia, and bully and threaten the whole world.
The far right: a global phenomenon
In recent years, the reactionary, authoritarian and/or fascist extreme right wing has been in the ascendant all over the world: it already governs half of the world’s countries. Among the best-known examples are: Trump (United States), Modi (India), Orbán (Hungary), Erdoğan (Turkey), Daesh (Islamic State), Salvini (Italy), Duterte (Philippines), and now Bolsonaro (Brazil).
Venezuela oil production continues decline as China cancels more shipments
Russian oil giant Rosneft blasted threats of U.S. sanctions as “unfair competition.”
Why Argentina’s elites are waging war against Milagro Sala
The leader of the Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Association is a symbol of the fight against the old order.
Green-smearing from Nicaragua to Bolivia
On one level the intensifying deceit of Western media foreign affairs coverage corresponds to the increasing desperation of Western elites confronting their failing global power and influence.
Max Blumenthal: Nicaragua beat U.S. regime change, but sanctions and sabotage continue
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal explains how Nicaragua celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution just one year after defeating a U.S.-backed coup effort — and how U.S. sabotage efforts continue today.
The next European country as a strategic target of the far-right
Nationalism has always been, to some degree, a feature across Europe’s political spectrum, but in recent years, fostered by the likes of Donald Trump and funded by American religious ‘conservatives’ there has been an explosion in voter support for right-wing and populist parties.
Henry A. Giroux and the culture of neoliberal fascism
HENRY A. GIROUX’s book The Terror of the Unforeseen analyzes the conditions that have enabled and led to Donald Trump’s rule and the consequences of that rule, that have ushered in an authoritarian version of capitalism. Giroux provides a realistic analysis that holds out the hope that, through collective efforts, change is possible and democracy […]
Kashmir on the edge of the abyss
Tariq Ali on the situation in Kashmir.
Hybrid wars are destroying Democracies
In Brazil recently, I gave an interview to Brasil de Fato, which was born in 2003 as the weekly magazine of the World Social Forum. It is now one of the most important windows into Brazil’s political world. The newsletter this week carries the text of most of the interview.
Lula: “U.S. hand” on everything that’s happened in Brazil
In an interview with Bob Fernandes, on TVE Bahia, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that the U.S. government “created the Lava Jato investigation to take our oil.”
Trump starves Venezuela, Democrats are silent
The Trump administration is intensifying its economic warfare on the people of Venezuela with a crippling embargo—and facing no resistance from the Democratic Party.
Detention camps are concentration camps
In June it was finally settled, the short-term detention centers run by the U.S. Border Patrol were—quite technically—concentration camps. While they are not the extermination camps of the Holocaust, the rounding up and mass incarceration of people who haven’t seen a judge fits the definition exactly, according to expert Andrea Pitzer. The legal definition of […]
Trump’s disavowal of white supremacy makes a mockery of antiracism—but so does the rest of the political establishment
The partisan condemnation of white supremacy that has taken shape during the Trump era has reduced anti-racist critique to political theater.
Venezuela food shipment destined for Venezuela seized due to U.S. blockade
The ship was seized in the Panama canal according to the Venezuela government.
USA vs. Venezuela: the embargo as part of a war with no turning back (Interview – Julio Escalona)
The total embargo declared by Donald Trump against Venezuela is another step in sharpening his strategy to generate chaos in the country and overthrow Nicolás Maduro. Julio Escalona, deputy of the National Constituent Assembly, analyzes the situation, the possibility of dialogues, and challenges.
