Tag Archives | U.S. Invasion

Trump might not invade Venezuela yet, but what he is doing is worse

Originally published: CODEPINK on December 26, 2025 by Michelle Ellner (more by CODEPINK) | (Posted Dec 29, 2025)

While military options remain on the table, the U.S. is ramping up economic asphyxiation against the Venezuelan people.
An unrealized political possibility: remembering the Grenada Revolution

Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 20, 2021 by Kevin Edmonds (more by Black Agenda Report) | (Posted Oct 30, 2021)

The United States overthrow of the Grenada Revolution in 1983 initiated a vicious and unrelenting regime of neoliberalism that has gutted the Caribbean nation. But revolutionary Grenada showed the world a radical alternative to capitalism and neocolonialism is possible.

A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey
Scott Ferguson

We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the […]
Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
Scott Ferguson

Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]
Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
Scott Ferguson

This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]