No More Thanksgivings: Glen Ford’s Challenge to America
Of the traditional US holidays, Thanksgiving was by far my favorite. I can do without the excessive commercialization of Xmas with its cheesy music that broadcasts for weeks on end. Cancel the forced...
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America: the Pink Tide Surges, 2018-2022
Photograph Source: Edgar Zuniga Jr. – CC BY 2.0 Latin America and the Caribbean have again began to take on a becoming pink complexion, all the more so with June’s historic electoral victory in...
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America: Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua,...
The Chilean Declaration of Independence on 18 February 1818 – Public Domain The US has long considered Latin America and the Caribbean to be its “backyard” under the anachronist 1823 Monroe Doctrine....
View ArticleThe Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America: Challenges Ahead for the Pink...
A surging Pink Tide has brought left electoral victories in Latin America and the Caribbean protesting the neoliberal model imposed by the US and its collaborators. Neoliberalism has failed to meet the...
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Venezuelan Political Prisoner on Trial in Miami Refuses to “Sing”
Photograph Source: Fuser News – Puerto Rican Day Parade, New York City Starting December 12, an evidentiary hearing before the US Southern District Court of Florida began considering a case of...
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Latin America and Caribbean Year 2022 in Review
Xiomara Castro in her inauguration. Photograph Source: 總統府 – CC BY 2.0 Challenges for a Pink Tide Surging Over a Volatile US Hegemony 2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. This...
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Washington’s “Democracy Promotion” Fails Spectacularly in Venezuela
Photograph Source: Agência Senado – CC BY 2.0 The Los Angeles Times reports that “the audacious gamble by the U.S. government to…restore democracy” suffered a “spectacular failure” in Venezuela. What...
View ArticleComparing the January Riots in the Brazilian and US Capitols
Outgoing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fled the county just before his term of office ended on January 1, apparently fearing legal prosecution for multiple wrong-doings once he lost presidential...
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The Winter Coup Season in Latin America
Photograph Source: Protesters invade the National Congress of Brazil. TV BrasilGov – CC BY 3.0 Coup attempts have gone viral this winter season in Latin America. The contagion spread first to...
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Nostalgia for the Cuban Missile Crisis
Photograph Source: Central Intelligence Agency – Public Domain Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and...
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The Havana Syndrome Case Cracked
The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain The Havana Syndrome was first reported in Cuba in 2016. The mysterious malady initially afflicted US...
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Whither Multipolarity in a Changing World Order
Photograph Source: Stiller Beobachter – CC BY 2.0 The Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci presciently observed: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new...
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Mr. Guaidó Goes to Washington
Photograph Source: Leo Alvarez – CC BY-SA 4.0 Juan Guaidó continues to advocate punishing the Venezuelan people with US coercive economic measures. Recently shipped to Washington DC, the former...
View ArticleAfter Ellsberg: Reflections on the Security State and the Anti-war Movement
Daniel Ellsberg died on June 16, fighting to the end to warn of the existential threat of nuclear war. The 92-year-old whistleblower left a legacy of peace activism dating to his courageous release of...
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Nicaragua Celebrates its Revolution While the US Plans New Sanctions Against It
Sandinista youth celebrates the revolution. Photo: Richard Harris. “We are fighting against the Yankee enemy of humanity,” explained Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo, setting the tone of the...
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Humor in the Headlines Over China in Latin America
Photo by Alejandro Luengo “As China arrives with a splash in Honduras, the US wrings its hands” – Washington Post, October 2, 2023 In a break from its hysterical coverage of the existential threat...
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Cornel West Runs for President: You Can’t Be a Spoiler if the System Is...
Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 2.0 Under the less than inspiring implicit slogan of “You’re Stuck with Biden,” the Democratic Party has foregone presidential primary debates this election...
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No Business as Usual at Rally in Solidarity with Gaza – Federal Building...
As people got off work on Thursday evening, October 19, the street in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco swelled with a spirited crowd chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will...
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Zionism – An Ideology for the Self-Loathing
Photograph Source: Alisdare Hickson – CC BY-SA 2.0 When I told my grandmother that I was going to visit Europe for the first time, she exploded, “Oy vey!” Raising her voice, she exclaimed: “There’s...
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Why Latin America and the Caribbean Stand With Palestine
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than...
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