Why Donald Trump Just Can’t Stop Going to War
When Imperial America Offers Help, It Just Might Get You Killed Patrick Strickland for Tom Dispatch After protests across Iran turned deadly in January, President Donald Trump promised Iranians that…
Greenland Is Not for Sale: An Indigenous Activist Speaks Out Against the US
The people of Greenland have stated: “We don’t want to be American, we don’t want to be Danish, we are Greenlandic.”
From America First to America Alone
By John Feffer for TomDispatch A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power…
“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…
The ‘Peace President’ Who Bombed 10 Countries and Wants $1.5 Trillion for War
Posted by Joshua Scheer Donald Trump keeps insisting he’s a “peace president.” The record shows something closer to a global arsonist with better PR. In just one year of his…
Europe Rides the Tiger: Jeffrey Sachs on NATO, Trump, and the Collapse of the “Rules‑Based Order
Posted by Joshua Scheer In a sweeping and unsparing conversation with Glenn Diesen, economist and longtime geopolitical analyst Jeffrey Sachs dissects the accelerating rupture between Europe and the United States…
Energy Greed of the North: Rodríguez Rebukes U.S. Claims of Control Over Venezuela’s Oil
Posted By Joshua Scheer In a moment of defiant clarity, Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez addressed the American public directly: “Be aware and do not defend these aggressions over a…
TULSI GABBARD, THE SPY CHIEF WHO OPPOSED WAR — AND WAS KEPT OUT OF THE WAR ROOM
Posted Joshua Scheer As a Democratic congresswoman in 2019, Tulsi Gabbard warned the United States to “stay out” of Venezuela and opposed interventionist policies that have typified U.S. foreign engagements.…
Marco Rubio, Senate Complicity, and the Open Return of Empire
By Joshua Scheer The Oil Belongs to the United States? Let’s begin—and end—with the thought that says everything about this moment: the oil belongs to the United States. It is…
A Very Good Definition of Imperialism”: Stephen Miller Says the Quiet Part Out Loud on Venezuela—and Greenland
Posted by Joshua Scheer What one Democratic lawmaker described as “belligerent,” Sen. Bernie Sanders called something else entirely: clarity. During a remarkable appearance on CNN Monday night, top White House…
“I Am Here Kidnapped”: Maduro’s Courtroom Defiance and the Return of U.S. Regime Change
By Joshua Scheer Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s embattled president, declared himself a kidnapped head of state Monday as he pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges—reviving long-standing debates over Washington’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…
After Venezuela Assault, Trump and Rubio Warn Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia Could Be Next
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams US President Donald Trump and top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, characterized Saturday’s assault on Venezuela and abduction of the country’s…
Defying Trump, Venezuela VP Says ‘We Will Never Again Be a Colony of Any Empire’
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who assumed the role of interim president following the US abduction of Nicolás Maduro, said in a televised address…
How to topple Elliot Abrams’ delusion: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela
By Michelle Ellner Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece…