‘What We’re Witnessing Is a Genocide Sustained’:
ByJanine Jackson for FAIR CounterSpin interview with Rayan El Amine on voices from Gaza Janine Jackson interviewed Nation guest editor Rayan El Amine about voices from Gaza for the February…
Why Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Ring Fatally Hollow
Intro by Tom Engelhardt for Tom Dispatch At almost 82, I still walk six miles a day without fail. And sometimes now, when I’m walking in my city, New York,…
Trump’s New Trade War Isn’t About Trade — It’s About Regime Power
Posted by Joshua Scheer Donald Trump is taking his economic threats international. Fresh off Davos, Trump launched an unprecedented attack on Canada, threatening to impose a 50% tariff on all…
“Hostile Takeovers”: As U.S. Claims Venezuela’s Oil, Trump Seeks “Vassal States” Across the World
By Democracy Now In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump…
Latin America Pushes Back Against U.S. Intervention
By Medea Benjamin When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does…
Inside the CIA’s Blind Spots: John Kiriakou on Torture, Greenland, and the New Imperial Playbook
Posted by Joshua Scheer Welcome to Deep Focus, where former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou cuts through the fog of official narratives and answers your questions with the kind…
The Cartel That Never Existed—Except When Washington Needed It
In 1993, 60 Minutes aired a report detailing how the CIA recruited Venezuelan military officer Gen. Ramón Guillén Dávila, enabling the shipment of roughly 22 tons of cocaine into U.S.…
Rubio Says “Not a War” as Trump Threatens Half the Hemisphere
By Joshua Scheer Welcome to another day in the empire we might as well call 1984. Marco Rubio, who only yesterday said the U.S. didn’t need congressional approval because the…
Oil, Power, and Empire: Why the U.S. Is Targeting Venezuela Now
“What the United States is telling the rest of the world is that it believes it has the right to overthrow any government it doesn’t like.” on the latest Geopolitical…
WE’LL CONTROL THE OIL! — TRUMP BOASTS AFTER SECRET RAID AS WASHINGTON POST CHEERS ARREST
By Joshua Scheer In a reprehensible editorial, The Washington Post praised the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, calling the U.S.-led operation as “Justice in Venezuela” saying it was “one…
Trump Slashes US Humanitarian Aid Pledge as His Cuts Kill Hundreds of Thousands Globally
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The Trump administration on Monday announced a commitment of $2 billion to United Nations humanitarian assistance efforts, a fraction of what the US has…
From Caracas to Congress: Trump’s Blockade Draws Condemnation and Resistance
By Joshua Scheer This post was originally intended as a year-in-review from BreakThrough News, covering major developments in Venezuela and Latin America—from the freeing of certain drug lords to U.S.…
Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 Outlines Imperial Intentions for Latin America
By Michael Fox for Truthout On Wednesday, December 10, Donald Trump announced that the United States had seized a tanker in the Caribbean carrying more than 1.6 million barrels of…
Honduras Accuses Trump of ‘Electoral Coup’ Interference as U.S. Seizes Venezuelan Ship
Joshua S Honduras is facing a deep political crisis as President Xiomara Castro warns that an “electoral coup” is unfolding, accusing powerful business and political elites of trying to block…
The Trump Corollary
U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro By Eric Ross for TomDispatch In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan…