Three Undeclared Wars with One Goal—Scarcity
Ukraine, Venezuela and the Gulf are being sold as separate events. They are not. They are strategic moves toward one goal: fossil-fuel checkmate. Rival oil and gas leave the market, the price of what remains goes up, and the producers who still have cargo...
Through systematic economic warfare—spanning grounded airlines, blocked communications, and choked financial channels—Washington successfully crushed a journey that Tehran had already approved.
Acentral component of the unprovoked, illegal war of aggression waged by the U.S. and Israel against Iran is securing control over the narrative—and the flow of (dis)information—while systematically suppressing...
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...
