Tag: North America

The Gipper praised Cameroonian President Paul Biya’s commitment to free enterprise and openness to U.S. investment, which is the main reason the U.S. still supports him today On February 27, 1986, President Ronald Reagan held a press conference with Cameroonian President Paul Biya on the White House...
The large-scale operation in Rio de Janeiro carried out on October 28, which has already left at least 121 people dead and once again laid bare the logic of war applied to poverty, should not be understood solely as a local public-security issue. It is part of a global control...
Over two million New Yorkers voted in the mayoral elections, which saw Zohran Mamdani win with more than one million votes himself...
New film looks back at one of history’s greatest visual humorists who spoke truth—and mirth—to power. As Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert undergo the slings and arrows of outrageous censorship, a timely new documentary chronicles a sketching scourge of the status quo who skewered the powers that be, lampooning politicians,...
Lucien Conein was a key figure in coup that set the groundwork for the escalation of the Vietnam War Lucien Conein was a legendary CIA officer known as “Black Luigi,” who ran agents behind the Iron Curtain in the early Cold War, helped organize Iran’s notoriously brutal secret...
This year’s anniversary of 9/11 passed with little mainstream mention. Almost two-and-a-half decades on, the media appear to have lost interest in that fateful, world-changing day. This is despite the April 2023 release of a bombshell court filing by the Office of Military Commissions, which concluded at least two of...
Far-right leader Javier Milei won Argentina’s mid-term legislative elections, strengthening his position for the final two years of his government. President Milei has already announced that he will send regressive and far-reaching bills to Congress: labor, tax and pension reforms. All three sets of bills share the same goal: favoring...
Worked security for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign The 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was a fascistic spectacle where Donald Trump and many of the other speakers spewed vile anti-immigrant rhetoric and a masochistic ultra-nationalistic, extreme right-wing ideology. Fifty-three years earlier, the CEO of the convention’s host committee, Stephen...
After almost a year of an escalating trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea last week...
Since September 2, 2025, the United States has bombed thirteen boats, two within twenty-four hours, killing a total of sixty-one people in international waters, under the unproven charge that the boats were carrying drugs headed for the U.S. What is amazing in this unprecedented affair is that the expected public...