Ecuador’s current president, Daniel Noboa, and the left-wing opposition candidate, Luisa González, will face off in a head-to-head runoff election on April 13.
With more than 99.96% of the votes counted, the ruling party secured 44.31%, while the candidate aligned with banned and self-exiled former president Rafael Correa obtained 43.97%,...
Continues Supporting Ukraine War and Tripling War Budget
“We have decided to offer Ukraine NATO membership. But it is also clear that we must all agree on it if it is to happen,” said Denmark’s Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen following the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters...
As the Trump administration openly threatens historic American allies in Europe, weighs in on German elections in favor of the far-right, and pushes the idea of MEGA—Make Europe Great Again—it’s becoming increasingly clear that the relationships and dynamic between the U.S. and Western Europe is changing at a scale we haven’t seen in almost a century...
U.S. President Donald Trump has just closed down USAID after Elon Musk branded it “a criminal organization,” adding “it’s time for it to die.” Is there any truth to Musk’s allegation?
One “beneficiary” of USAID is Nicaragua, a country with one of the lowest incomes per head in Latin America....
A chorus stretches to the horizon that praises the Trump administration for shutting down USAID.
I feel only deep revulsion when I hear their hymns. I smell a sickening stench when I dig into their fallacious arguments.
Could it be that it is considered to be perfectly okay for politicians, journalists...
As part of its evisceration of government agencies, the Trump administration imposed a funding freeze for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot that meddles in elections and pushes regime change around the world in the name of “promoting democracy.”
On February 12, Elon Musk’s Department of Government...
In mid-November, three daughters of Malcolm X (aka el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) accused the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and the Department of Justice with involvement in the 1965 assassination of the activist leader.
The daughters, spearheaded by Ilyasah Shabazz and represented by Attorney Ben Crump, filed a $100...
New Documentary Explores Life and Legacy of Fletcher Prouty, who wrote about CIA covert operations in his classic book The Secret Team
In a famous scene in Oliver Stone’s epic 1992 film JFK, Kevin Costner’s character confers with a shadowy CIA operative played by Donald Sutherland known as Mr. X...
On December 19, James Foley, U.S. ambassador to Haiti 2003-2005, published an explosive op-ed in the rabidly anti-Communist Miami Times. He lamented how the country had become a “ticking time bomb,” with hundreds of thousands of refugees threatening to emigrate stateside, “mounting gang violence,” withdrawal of “humanitarian relief organizations”...
Donald Trump has nominated Linda McMahon, a former executive with World Wrestling Entertainment and twice-failed Senate candidate as well as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration under his first term, to lead the Department of Education. Speaking about her nomination in early February, Trump said he wants her to put herself out of a job—to shutter the US Department of Education...
