Tag: North America
As 2025 comes to an end and we enter a new year, we’re looking back on the past 12 months that sometimes feel like a never-ending cycle of bad news...
Walden Bello is a well-known figure in the Philippines who served in its House of Representatives and ran as a vice-presidential candidate on a social democratic ticket in the country’s 2022 elections.
For many years, Bello has also been a leading intellectual critic of neo-liberal ideology, showing in books and...
Though alleging to expose “deep-state” machinations against Donald Trump, their publication accuses James Comey and John Brennan of being communist agents and venerates Cold War-Era KGB defectors who advanced CIA disinformation
While browsing through the magazine section at Barnes and Noble recently, for fun, I picked up the September issue...
The son of the Iwo Jima flag-bearer in one of the most iconic photos in U.S history, James Bradley gained fame for his 2000 book Flags of Our Fathers, which was made into a film directed by Clint Eastwood.
Offput at how Flags of Our Fathers was...
Donald Trump, at the start of both his first and second terms, said that he would order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to clean up its act in the area of prison health care.
Trump also pledged to push states to improve health care in their prison systems. That has...
Mike Pompeo, CIA Director and Secretary of State in the first Trump administration, has long been a Ukraine war hawk, calling Russia’s actions genocide, stating that Crimea should be returned to Ukraine (when its people voted overwhelmingly to be part of Russia) and consistently advocating for increased...
The European Union (EU) has a population of 450 million people, yet its foreign policy is determined by a country with a population of 1.3 million people—Estonia.
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy is Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia. Her...
A bipartisan political movement is urgently needed to fight back against the CIA
On November 4, Abigail Spanberger, a CIA case officer in the Middle East from 2006 to 2014, was elected as Virginia’s 75th governor.
A Democrat who served in Congress from 2019 to 2025, Spanberger mixed criticism of Donald...
To protect the huge profits of unregulated AI companies, the Trump administration is trying to bring back a punishment that was stripped from this year’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill...
On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, I filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of the family of Alejandro Carranza—a Colombian fisherman who went out in his boat on the Caribbean Sea, attempting to fish for marlin and tuna, but who never came home....
