Guantánamo Naval Base Also Used for Migrant Detentions in 2025 On January 11, 2026, thousands of citizens of many countries held vigils for the 15 men still in the U.S. military prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo, Cuba. As these citizens have been doing for more than two decades,...

Shadow operators at the front lines of America’s forever wars come back as damaged goods and often parlay the skills they learned overseas into criminal acts at home In his 2014 retirement speech, Admiral William McRaven, the former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), called the era of...

Some eight decades after the end of World War II and the trial of the Nazis before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, "the Final Solution of the Jewish Question," today known as the Holocaust, remains an almost incomprehensible mega-crime, unique in its nihilism, its mission-like execution, its mechanisms...

Nicaragua remains in the crosshairs of U.S. regime-change efforts, along with Cuba and Venezuela, as President Donald Trump boasts of his administration’s goal to remove “Marxists” from Latin America.  This inflammatory rhetoric is repeated endlessly despite the fact that Nicaragua actually has a mixed-economy that recognizes, and even encourages, through...

In early November, the Canadian government released its 2025 budget, which detailed plans to increase military spending by $84 billion over the next five years—the largest military expansion in more than 70 years. After his victory over Conservative Pierre Poilievre in April elections, Liberal Mark Carney announced an immediate 17%...

On two visits, this author witnessed North Korea’s economic boom first-hand I visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or People’s Korea in April 2024 and then 18 months later in October 2025 after being invited by the Korean Association of Social Scientists (KASS). The trips were organized by the British...

On August 25th, this journalist documented how the 1975 Helsinki Accords transformed “human rights” into a highly destructive weapon in the West’s imperial arsenal. At the forefront of this shift were organizations such as Amnesty International, and Helsinki Watch—the forerunner to Human Rights Watch. Supposedly...

Kyrylo Budanov Has Ties to Far-Right Pro-Banderite Groups From the Phoenix Program to Operation Condor and the Contra War to Operation Timber Sycamore and the Global War on Terror, the CIA has a long history of training fascist death-squad operatives, torturers and assassins. The historical...

Shortly before the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York denied a motion by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to dismiss the long-running lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the monarchy. Originally filed back in 2003,...

Following the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed an indictment alleging that Maduro “moved loads of cocaine under the protection of Venezuelan law enforcement” and that profits from the illegal activity “flowed” to...