Tag: United States
Three Undeclared Wars with One Goal—Scarcity
Ukraine, Venezuela and the Gulf are being sold as separate events. They are not. They are strategic moves toward one goal: fossil-fuel checkmate. Rival oil and gas leave the market, the price of what remains goes up, and the producers who still have cargo...
Through systematic economic warfare—spanning grounded airlines, blocked communications, and choked financial channels—Washington successfully crushed a journey that Tehran had already approved.
Acentral component of the unprovoked, illegal war of aggression waged by the U.S. and Israel against Iran is securing control over the narrative—and the flow of (dis)information—while systematically suppressing...
Prior to the 2018 mid-term elections, Patrick Martin of the World Socialist Web Site published an important pamphlet called “The CIA Democrats” detailing the large number of Democratic Party congressional candidates who had military and intelligence backgrounds.
Eleven of the candidates with a military-intelligence background...
On September 16, 2026, former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague for war crimes.
Known in his guerrilla fighting days as the “snake,” Thaçi, 58, was sentenced along with three other senior members of the since-disbanded Kosovo...
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...
