Politics
Farewell to Pepe Mujica
José “Pepe” Mujica, former President of Uruguay and one of the most prominent political figures in modern Latin America, has died. The press and social networks in the region are full of obituaries with words of gratitude and admiration. It…
From Tule Lake to the Border: The Enduring Violence of the Alien Enemies Act
Satsuki Ina on Ending the Alien Enemies Act Photos of my father and other Japanese Americans brutalized in the Tule Lake Segregation Center in 1945 chillingly resonate with the treatment of Venezuelans by the U.S. government today. Invoking the Alien…
Despite setbacks, Latin America’s long history of anti-imperialism continues
A review of AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin By John Perry “An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a Nicaraguan boy once told me. It took me a second to…
The lessons from Trump’s Yemeni debacle could inform his future decisions on Ukraine.
Five New York Times (NYT) journalists collaborated to produce a detailed report earlier this week about “Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia”. It’s worth reading in full if time permits, but the present piece will summarize and…
Russia Supports Cuba’s Anti-US Policies
The Caribbean island of Cuba, with a socialist system and a communist party, and with a population estimated at 11.5 million, faces a seriously deteriorating economic situation. Its labour force is rapidly reducing as many are emigrating to the United…
As the US Pivots Toward Multipolar Shores, Europe Heads Directly for the Abyss (Part 2)
Introduction: Reflecting Briefly on Part 1 A considerable portion of part one of this two part article consisted of a synthesis of how and why the last two and 1/2 decades of American foreign policy have been crippling for the…
On the book “Ukraine, The big Plan” written by Leonidas Vatikiotis
On Friday 9 May 2025, in a packed hall at the Greek Union of Editors of Daily Press, the presentation of the new book by Leonidas Vatikiotis, “Ukraine, The Grand Plan, Even if it didn’t exist, it would have to…
Sowing Seeds of Hope in a Garden of Hate
by Irshad Ahmad When the air reeks with the acrid smell of war, fear seeps into our souls. Life loses meaning, and the future turns bleak. Amidst the chaos, friends and foes alike obsess over statistics—counting losses like arithmetic…
As the US Pivots Toward Multipolar Shores, Europe Heads Directly for the Abyss (Part 1)
Introduction: An Optimal Way to Begin Many Americans automatically assume that their preferred political party’s foreign policy aims are substantively congruent with that party’s proclaimed domestic agenda. This simply isn’t the case though, and it’s been one of the primary…
Chile: The extermination of the democratic press by the post-dictatorship Concertación governments
Interview with Juan Pablo Cárdenas (2008) In the 1990s, the right-wing Concertación governments adopted a policy of annihilating the centre-left print media that had laboriously emerged in the 1980s in opposition to the dictatorship. Basically, this was done by maintaining…
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