Tag: U.S. Imperialism
That tension—between the ideal of the United States as a leading champion of democracy on the one hand and a leading destroyer of democracy on the other—remains the often-unacknowledged fault line running through American politics today.- Jonathan M. Katz, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and...
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) recently issued a memo which states: Cuba is not Venezuela. What does that mean? “The same people who keep ’57 Chevrolets on the road with a coat hanger will wreak havoc against a foreign-imposed regime.”
In 1975, Jamaica’s socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley expressed support for...
Adelmo Becerra is a Venezuelan trade union activist with the National Institute for Training and Socialist Education (INCES).
In mid-June, Adelmo told Truthout that changes to a hydrocarbons law, instituted after the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro in January, has led Venezuela to “regress more than 100 years, back to...
On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, many in Hawai’i, the 50th territory to “join”/acquire U.S. statehood, decided not to celebrate.
When you better know the history of how rich and greedy U.S. citizens, many of them descendants of the missionaries from the 1830s, conducted a coup that...
June 25th marks the 76th anniversary of the provocation of the Korean War which is referred to in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as the Fatherland Liberation War or Victorious Fatherland Liberation War.
It was a war of a big country against a small country and a racist...
In the eyes of American policy elites Cuba’s most unforgivable crime is not even its socialism, which is now badly frayed, but rather its sovereignty. Cuba’s persistent independence and oppositional survival as a state is an American imperial humiliation.
Revolutionary Cuba’s mere existence threatens the cynicism, complacency and defeatism that does...
Zelensky’s former press secretary publicly helps lift the veil on Zelensky. Could this be a prelude to him being removed from power?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has much in common with ill-fated South Vietnam dictator Ngo Dinh Diem (1955-1963).
Both were heralded by liberal politicians and the media as democratic saviors...
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...
The condemnation by local, national and international labor organizations of the illegal January 3, 2026, U.S. attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is a welcome development.
The AFL-CIO has declared, succinctly and without elaboration, “We join the international labor community in...
The situation in Cuba is dire as the Trump administration ramps up its campaign to destabilize the country and destroy its revolution...
