International issues

Laura Dogu, newly appointed US envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicaragua and Honduras during periods of “social and political volatility.” What the LA Times fails to…

Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba’s eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her hands and broke down crying when I asked her about Trump’s blockade of the island—especially now that the U.S. is choking off oil shipments. By…

The White House warning that it could halt or condition the new binational bridge connecting Michigan and Ontario deepens the deterioration of relations between the United States and Canada. In a corridor through which nearly a quarter of bilateral trade…

In Africa’s most populous country, burned villages, executed bodies and mass displacement expose a crisis that cannot be explained solely by religious fanaticism or local criminality. In a nation rich in oil and strategic for the global energy market, extreme…

The intensification of the economic, financial and energy siege against Cuba — reaffirmed and expanded under the current U.S. administration — is producing a severe supply crisis and widespread blackouts that various analysts describe as an induced famine. After more…

The White House announces the revocation of the scientific finding that for more than fifteen years underpinned federal climate regulation in the United States. The decision dismantles the legal framework of national policy against global warming and reopens a debate…

The discursive and political backing from influential sectors in the United States for far-right forces in Germany forms part of a broader process of international legitimation of ethnonationalist projects. In the German case, the normalization of the AfD and the…

On the most heavily guarded stage of U.S. symbolic power, a legitimate voice turned entertainment into a political act and confronted hatred with collective dignity. It was not just the Super Bowl. That ultimate altar of spectacle—designed to say nothing…

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital technologies has been celebrated as the dawn of a new era of human progress. From automated industries to smart governance, from predictive algorithms to global digital connectivity, technology promises efficiency, convenience,…

It’s unimaginable that the US would allow any competitor to reduce its enormous new market share in the European energy industry, which it plans to further expand to make Europe even more dependent on it, and that the US wouldn’t…