Image by Getty and Unsplash+. As Trinidad and Tobago prepared for national elections in April 2025, politicians, economists, and analysts eyed the fate of a dragon that slept just off the country’s shores, in Venezuelan waters. The future of the massive gas field,...
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Republic of Fear
Interior of Alligator Alcatraz, with President Donald Trump, July 2, 2025. Photo: The White House. Alligator Alcatraz Not content to impugn the worth of 10 million undocumented workers, the Trump administration must calumniate the reputation of a genus of...
Republic of Fear
Interior of Alligator Alcatraz, with President Donald Trump, July 2, 2025. Photo: The White House. Alligator Alcatraz Not content to impugn the worth of 10 million undocumented workers, the Trump administration must calumniate the reputation of a genus of...
How to Kill a Dragon: Late Petro-State Politics in Trinidad, the US, and Venezuela
Image by Getty and Unsplash+. As Trinidad and Tobago prepared for national elections in April 2025, politicians, economists, and analysts eyed the fate of a dragon that slept just off the country’s shores, in Venezuelan waters. The future of the massive gas field,...
Republic of Fear
Interior of Alligator Alcatraz, with President Donald Trump, July 2, 2025. Photo: The White House. Alligator Alcatraz Not content to impugn the worth of 10 million undocumented workers, the Trump administration must calumniate the reputation of a genus of...
The City We Can Call Ours
Photograph Source: Bingjiefu He – CC BY 4.0 The deafening racket we’re getting here in Spain from US politics or, more like it, from Donald Trump’s chaotic and volatile presidency, tends to drown out other signals we’re getting. In this situation of the Trump...
How to Kill a Dragon: Late Petro-State Politics in Trinidad, the US, and Venezuela
Image by Getty and Unsplash+. As Trinidad and Tobago prepared for national elections in April 2025, politicians, economists, and analysts eyed the fate of a dragon that slept just off the country’s shores, in Venezuelan waters. The future of the massive gas field,...
Republic of Fear
Interior of Alligator Alcatraz, with President Donald Trump, July 2, 2025. Photo: The White House. Alligator Alcatraz Not content to impugn the worth of 10 million undocumented workers, the Trump administration must calumniate the reputation of a genus of...
Sudan: A War of Attrition, a War on Civilians
Sudanese refugee camp in Chad. Photo: Henry Wilkins, VOA. Public Domain. I met up with two Sudan experts last week. Over a year ago I was lucky enough to travel with one of them to the region, meeting over two dozen key Sudanese civilians. Last week the other expert...
From Chiapas to Gaza w/ Acción Palestina Chiapas
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Death, Humor and the Looming Unknown
Let’s call it the human guessing game. There comes a point in life when we find ourselves playing it whether we want to or not. Hallelujah for a sense of humor. It gives (temporary) relief from the unrelenting unknown . . . of dying. Yeah, I said it, not abstractly or...
NEA Teachers Celebrate Motion to Drop ADL– Israel Lobby Fumes
National Education Association teachers in support of Palestinian rights are celebrating their breakthrough success at the NEA’s Representative Assembly in Portland this summer. After years of organizing with both one-on-one conversations and state delegation talks,...