Tag: North America
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...
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...
The global strategy Donald Trump has pursued since the beginning of his second term revives a formula that proved effective for much of the last century.
Treating the world as a chessboard, the old bipolar tradition of the Cold War has been redesigned to cast China as the rival power,...
Julian Assange is back.
On September 17, Assange heralded his own return to X by posting a picture of himself standing in front of a Sydney street mural. The mural, painted by Scott Marsh, shows a bearded bust of Assange looking out on the world above the hashtag, “#FreeAssange,” only...
There are facts without consequences, books without follow-up. What shall we make of this monumental piece of research and logic that speaks to our conscience and should move us all to action? The very essence of civilized existence, of the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of...
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was up to its old tricks at its awards banquet on September 10th, which took place at the estate of George Washington in Mount Vernon, Virginia, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the writing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
The honorees...
“…the real significance of this scandal for me…is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s Complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery, and labor exploitation.”— Monica Petersen, Research Fellow...
CIA Director John Brennan was key to U.S. foreign policy strategy that aimed to draw Russia into quagmire in Ukraine and attack its energy infrastructure so U.S. oil and gas producers could take over its depleted markets
The Russia-Ukraine War, really a U.S.-Ukraine proxy war on Russia, has taken a...
