Prior to the 2018 mid-term elections, Patrick Martin of the World Socialist Web Site published an important pamphlet called “The CIA Democrats” detailing the large number of Democratic Party congressional candidates who had military and intelligence backgrounds.
Eleven of the candidates with a military-intelligence background...
Some of the remnant socialist governments appear to be sliding toward subservience
“Respect for sovereignty is the most significant norm in international politics, and its purpose is to minimize war and facilitate peaceful relations among states.”—John MearsheimerAmerican political scientist and international relations scholar and professor
The U.S. war against Vietnam...
On September 16, 2026, former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague for war crimes.
Known in his guerrilla fighting days as the “snake,” Thaçi, 58, was sentenced along with three other senior members of the since-disbanded Kosovo...
Plantation Owners Lobbied the U.S. Government to Acquire Over 100 Pacific Islands Between 1855 and 1900
In the mid 19th century, the U.S. military kidnapped Pacific Islanders and African-Americans or otherwise lured them to remote and largely uninhabited Pacific islands so they could work on plantations producing guano that could...
Part II of a two-part series
“Like a Resistance fighter dead before May 45,I shall begin to decomposeever so slowly in the harrowing light of this sea,a poet and citizen forgotten.”- Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Poems in the Form of a Rose”
This is the second installment of a two-part series exploring...
Part I of Two-Part Series
“Killed to keep the world turningThrow his bones overThe white cliffs of DoverAnd into the sea, the sea of RomeAnd the bloodstained coast of Ostia.”- Coil, “Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)”
In light of the on-going revelations and public obsession surrounding the sordid saga of the...
The clash between competing models that has been unfolding globally for decades arrived in October at what is undoubtedly becoming a central event. Brazil’s presidential election offers an extraordinary opportunity to weigh these competing visions of the world—both for the future of South America’s largest country and for its...
On August 3, Alfonso Fanjul, Jr., passed away at the age of 89.
A New York Times obituary called Mr. Fanjul (aka “Alfy”) the “patriarch of a family that lost one of Cuba’s largest sugar businesses in the revolution of 1959 and fled to the...
The global strategy Donald Trump has pursued since the beginning of his second term revives a formula that proved effective for much of the last century.
Treating the world as a chessboard, the old bipolar tradition of the Cold War has been redesigned to cast China as the rival power,...
Julian Assange is back.
On September 17, Assange heralded his own return to X by posting a picture of himself standing in front of a Sydney street mural. The mural, painted by Scott Marsh, shows a bearded bust of Assange looking out on the world above the hashtag, “#FreeAssange,” only...
