Tag: U.S. Imperialism

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...
Diem Assassination
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...
After the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the legitimate president of Venezuela, Trump held a press conference in which he was asked about María Corina Machado, the most visible face abroad of the Venezuelan opposition. He responded: “I think it would be very tough for her to be the...
On January 17, Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of Uganda’s presidential election over Bobi Wine with 71% of the vote, extending a four-decade grip on political power. American news outlets like NPR and The New York Times cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election, noting that the vote...