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Humanists Condemn the US Attack on Venezuela and the Illegal Detention of Its President

Once again, we have witnessed the United States openly flout international law by bombing Caracas and abducting the Venezuelan president. The accusations of drug trafficking and weapons possession against Nicolás Maduro and his wife are nothing more than a pretext…

After Venezuela: Six plausible scenarios on the new Game of Thrones board

The intervention of the United States in Venezuela marks a political turning point that goes far beyond the Venezuelan case itself. It is not merely a concrete operation, but an operational precedent: the decision to act de facto outside the…

Year-end review: US imperialism at a crossroads, requiem for Europe

2025 came to a close in an atmosphere of anxiety: attack in preparation against Venezuela, looming danger of world war, threat of global economic collapse, soaring prices and an assault on hard-won freedoms in so-called democratic societies. 2025 is also…

The U.S. & China: Competition, Conflagration, Or Coexistence               

Humanity finds itself in the inherent conflict between rising and declining powers that has often, as in World Wars I and II, culminated in catastrophic wars. The U.S.-Chinese trade war undermines their economies and jeopardizes their peoples’ and world security.…

Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela

Washington’s escalating regime-change offensive against Venezuela uses drug interdiction conflated with combatting “terrorism” as a pretext for the expansion of imperial militarism. By Roger D. Harris Donald Trump boasted striking small boats off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast to “blow the cartel…

Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People

“The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting.” — Pete Hegseth “America is under invasion from within… That’s a war, too. It’s a…

Trump’s Foreign Policy: A Sham?

Some believe that Donald Trump actually wants to end the war in Ukraine. Others believe he’s as belligerent as his predecessors. Who’s right? Perhaps a bit of both. He may have wanted to end American involvement in the war in…

Alligator Alcatraz: court injunctions and journalistic investigations

There are two rather serious problems hanging over the inhumane immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” (which is not a nickname, it is really called that), which Trump wanted to set an example of how to treat those who…

Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 Meets a Multipolar Hemisphere

A recent article published in The Hill celebrated the revival of the Monroe Doctrine under Donald Trump by suggesting that U.S. pressure is displacing China from Latin America. But this view misreads both the nature of U.S. influence and the political and…

Will the Trump Regime’s 50% tariffs on India make the panda and the elephant dance more together?

Shashi Tharoor tells Trump that colonialism is over and that he is a hypocrite. I recently gave some comments to India’s NDTV about the decline of the US in the global society. It was on its Friday evening “India Ascends”…

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