By Ben Norton* – Geopolitical Economy The Donald Trump administration seeks to forcibly impose the US empire’s hegemony in Latin America. While hypocritically using “war on drugs/terror” rhetoric, it is reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, which top officials now call…
By David Faris* – Newsweek One of the biggest coups of President Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign was his unexpectedly strong performance with Latino voters. According to the gold-standard Pew post-election analysis, Trump won 48 percent of the Latino vote, by…
By Thalif Deen* – Inter Press Service (IPS) The African continent has long been monopolized by European colonial rulers, with France having the largest number of colonies, ruling over 35 territories, followed by Britain with 32. A bygone era of colonial rule on the…
By Medea Benjamin* and Nicholas J. Davies* – Common Dreams We urge all members of the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees to read the latest UN report on the genocide and to invite experts to testify at hearings on US complicity and participation in war crimes…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com Challenges and hopes for prosperity and stability. It took half a century, two foreign occupations, a UN peacekeeping mission, and one of the most extraordinary independence struggles of the modern era. But on 26 October 2025…
Sachs* and Sybil Fares* – Al Jazeera Real peace demands Palestinian statehood, Ukrainian neutrality and the courage to defy the war lobby. United States President Donald Trump styles himself as a peacemaker.
By Curro Jimenez – Naked Capitalism During the press conference after the meeting with Zelensky, a reporter asked Trump how he would proceed with Venezuela, since Maduro had “offered everything.” Trump’s answer was telling: “Yeah, he has offered everything…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com A landmark UN report sounds the alarm. When we think about war and peace, we often picture men in uniforms, generals in strategy rooms, and presidents at podiums. But around the world, it’s women who are bearing the brunt of war…
By Nora Sandoval* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) The Noboa government is crushing dissent and rolling back environmental victories. Ecuador has inspired the world. It was the first country to enshrine the rights of Nature in the constitution as a response to ecological…
By Connor Echols* – Responsible Statecraft It’s an old strategy: Israel’s hardliners benefit from sowing internal violence, chaos and Palestinian division. Frightening images have emerged from Gaza in the week since a fragile ceasefire took hold…
