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Imperial Oil Grab: The Abduction of Venezuela’s President as a Prelude to the Attack on Iran

Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have been targeted for regime change by Washington. The world’s hegemon naturally seeks access to such resources. Yet it would be simplistic to think that…

The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy

The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. assault on Iran rests on allegations that international inspectors…

How Do We Communicate the Future?

In the previous essay, I traced a recurring pattern across continents: when inherited systems fracture and abstraction proves insufficient, philosophy leaves the safety of theory and enters public life. The journalist-philosopher reappears in moments of crisis. If that pattern holds,…

Has Cuba’s Hesitation with Beijing and Moscow Facilitated Trump’s “Friendly Takeover”?

On February 27, 2026, President Donald Trump floated a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, claiming the island lacks money, food, and fuel — brought about by US sanctions, tariffs and blockade — which has weakened the Cuban government opening up the possibility for a soft…

MAYBE THE MOSSAD (You Scratch My Back…)?

The First Possibility  Trump, it turns out, is dumber than any calculation range I know of can measure. Putting aside the bald-faced illegality and the obvious inhumanity of the current US attack on Iran, this “move” erases everything that anyone…

A First Lady in a New York Cell

On International Working Women’s Day in 2025, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, read a poem she wrote highlighting the historic role played by Latin American women in the fight against imperialism. By Medea Benjamin and Michelle…

100 Days From the World Cup, an International Coalition is Calling on FIFA to Move the Games From the U.S.

The U.S. is Unsafe for Non-Europeans and is Operating as a rogue State With the FIFA World Cup 2026 now 100 days away, an international coalition has launched a coordinated boycott campaign demanding that FIFA move matches from the United…

The White West and the Geopolitics of Energy

It is absolutely mind-blowing how the Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran are being presented and justified. We are fed the same set of excuses on an endless loop: nuclear proliferation, regional security threats, the corruption of the Iranian regime,…

When Journalism Becomes Philosophy: A Global Lineage Beyond the Academy

In the twentieth century, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus came to embody a rare but decisive intellectual figure: the thinker who refuses abstraction and enters public life through journalism, essays, and political engagement. Their originality lay not only in their…

Canadian’s elbows up

The bellicose United States of America has lost only two wars in its history. Lost to what is known today as Canada in 1812 and to Vietnam in 1975. Everywhere else they have prevailed. Lately the Canadian mood has shifted…

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