On September 14, President Joe Biden appointed former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, an heir to the Pritzker banking dynasty whose net worth is around $3.3 billion, to be Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery.
In a statement, Biden said that Ms. Pritzker would “drive the United States’ efforts to help...
In Ecuador’s presidential runoff, it once again became clear that the main political force is “anti-Correísmo”—those who oppose former President Rafael Correa. Regardless of who the candidates are, the same side has consistently won in recent elections: the right-wing opponents of the Citizen Revolution (RC), Correa’s party. This time,...
Like most Americans I was “shocked but not surprised,” as the saying goes, by the Trump administration’s decision to snatch Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from his bed and render him to New York to face international narcotics trafficking charges. Whether Maduro has committed any crime or...
In February, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), an inside-the-beltway think tank, published a book-length study entitled Critical Minerals and the Future of the U.S. Economy, edited by Gracelin Baskaran and Duncan Wood.
The study laid bare what CovertAction Magazine co-founder Philip Agee detailed throughout his career: how...
In Part 1 of this article, a brief outline of the evolution of the Monroe Doctrine makes clear how utterly destructive that doctrine and its descendants have become to the nations of Latin America and the United States, both to its relationship to Latin America and to the fundamental...
Charlotte Dennett is an investigative journalist and lawyer whose father, Daniel Dennett, was considered to be America’s first master spy in the Middle East.
As head of counter-intelligence for the Central Intelligence group—the immediate forerunner of the CIA—Daniel traveled to Saudi Arabia in 1947 to determine the route of a...
The U.S. Claims To Be Embarked on a Global Crusade Against Authoritarianism While It Supports Authoritarian Regimes Like the One in Kenya
In mid-April 2025, President Donald Trump offered support for the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti, which is led by the National Police Service of Kenya.
Financed largely by...
The conservative media landscape has recently been embroiled in an explosive debate about Israel.
One one side, there is former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has broken with Donald Trump and the MAGA universe over the Iran War, stating that Trump betrayed his anti-war election pledge because of his...
Last December, U.S. Representative Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) introduced Resolution 943 in Congress, to have the United States formally renounce and annul the Monroe Doctrine. Meanwhile, the government of Honduran President Xiomara Castro has withdrawn Honduras from an arbitration mechanism in the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) that allows...
John of State whose cloak snaked around his body the contours of which you had to guess; and, Allan of Intelligence his dagger secreted behind his back waiting to strike enemies of the state.
The brothers Dulles John with his cloak and Allan with his dagger decided to overthrow Arbenz, President of Guatemala for giving The United Fruit Company’s unused land to the campesinos.
The brothers Dulles John...
