imperialism
The Trump Doctrine: “They Have It. We Want It. We Take...
Ron Unz
January 12, 2026
Back when I was a young child, I used to enjoy watching my Saturday morning cartoons, and they were often quite...
Shock and awe, reloaded: Washington’s hyper-imperial assault on Venezuela
January 9, 2026
A US onslaught of unprecedented scale has shattered Venezuelan sovereignty and exposed the fragility of the global South as Washington revives the...
Trump and Miller’s “iron law” of imperialist barbarism
Andre Damon*
Jan 07, 2026
In the aftermath of Saturday’s US attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has unleashed...
America is a Gangster State
By Chris Hedges
Jan 03, 2026
The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state. Violence does not...
4 ways Team Trump reminded us of Bush-Cheney in 2025
From WMDs to bombing Iran, the president who consistently mocked the GWOT is now pushing the same old buttons
By Jack Hunter
Dec 31, 2025
Earlier this...
US Launches Criminal Airstrikes on Venezuela—Statement by the Venezuelan Government
January 3, 2026
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Amid explosions in the vicinity of Caracas, the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has released a statement confirming that...
Why Is the United States Drawn to War?
It’s the oligarchy, stupid.
By Emanuel Pastreich
Dec 29, 2025
Featured Image: Money to Weapons by Cam Cotrill
The United States is drawn to war on every front, like...
Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the U.S. Empire in Latin...
Dec 7, 2025
Give the New York Post full credit. That paper seems to have invented the term “the Donroe Doctrine” for a front-page story...
It was fifty years ago today…on the ’75 coup
The Dismissal coup was more like Chile 1973 than anything in our own prior history. Here's one telling of it that brings it all...
Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina
By Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and John Perry
Oct 15, 2025
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast,...