Trump in Latin America
Trump's administration will likely capitalize on the decline of Latin America's left-wing governments during Obama's terms.
Trump's administration will likely capitalize on the decline of Latin America's left-wing governments during Obama's terms.

The brief resignation of Lebanon's prime minister is tied to Saudi Arabia's plans for regional supremacy.
Seizing on the death of a government official, the Right seems determined to create another crisis in Argentina.

US sanctions are devastating in ordinary times. But with the COVID-19 pandemic raging, they’re killing more people than ever.

The US promised to bring freedom to Iraqis, but its eight-year occupation resulted in death and destruction on a horrifying scale. It left behind a corrupt, sectarian political order that has responded to popular protests with brutal repression.

New Yorkers in the sixteenth congressional district will choose today between sixteen-term incumbent Eliot Engel and challenger Jamaal Bowman. The race offers a stark contrast between Bowman, who’s endorsed by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the Democratic Socialists of America, and Engel, a longtime and steadfast warmonger.

US warmongering left North Korea with a simple lesson: it might be worth hanging on to its nuclear weapons.

Recent elections in Iraq show that the country's voters are tired of a political system that produces only corruption and inequality.

The recent uprisings in Sudan and Algeria show that the conditions that gave rise to the Arab Spring are not going away. But movements against authoritarianism and exploitation still face existential threats.

Elliott Abrams was once an innocent child. And then he decided to spend the rest of his life covering up brutal atrocities and defending right-wing dictatorships.
Turkish president Erdoğan is wielding the state to attack anyone who won't capitulate to his authoritarian rule.

In 1980s Lebanon, the Communists were often targets for rising Islamist forces. Yet today the weakening of Hezbollah offers little opening for left-wing politics.

Two years into its war on Gaza, Israel faces global condemnation and a growing Palestinian solidarity movement. Yet, as analyst Mouin Rabbani explains, US support remains unwavering, and Israel shows little concern for the world’s outrage.

The ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine is the fruit of decades of increasingly right-wing Israeli policy, aided and abetted by the United States. To address the root causes, the US must end its support for Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist government.

The Israeli government spent months obstructing a cease-fire deal in Gaza while the US refused to apply pressure. Israel’s leaders are keen to resume the onslaught while ramping up violence in the West Bank if Washington allows it.

For a century, American wars were planned by think tankers drawn from the boards of Goldman Sachs and Chevron. It gave rise to horrors like Vietnam and Iraq. That era is over. What comes next is very likely worse.

Eleven years ago today, ISIS began its genocidal assault on Iraqi Yazidis. Reporting from the Sinjar region, our correspondent shows how a fractured community finds its path to recovery hindered by geopolitics as much as by violence.

Our hopes for a socialist United States are constrained as much by US empire as they are by domestic capitalists. But democratic socialist candidates like Bernie Sanders can combat militarism in the service of workers across the world.

Latin America is not the United States’ “backyard.” It’s the training ground, historian Greg Grandin argues, for periods of imperial retrenchment and regroupment. But it’s also a region where radical movements have consistently refused to be crushed by US imperial power.

We need an anti-war movement more than ever. Through his insistence on the need to build grassroots power from the bottom up and his consistent anti-war record, Bernie Sanders can help give us the tools to build one.