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Latin America Pushes Back Against U.S. Intervention
Photo: Nuestra America gathering in Bogotá, Colombia. Credit: Progressive International When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly. I just returned from an emergency gathering in Bogotá […]
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Authoritarians’ Promise of “Law and Order” Always Translates to Lawlessness at the Top
Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law, deployed by the political class to carry out their criminal intent. A defining refrain of Adolf Hitler was: “law and order.” Law enforcement entailed the perpetration of authoritarian ideology on the German […]
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Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now
This is the first of 4+1 TFF-created idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the United States and, in both the short and long term, help catalyse a worldwide nonviolent resistance to what many observers describe as the Trump administration’s uniquely confrontational, destructive and world-threatening policies. These portfolios outline what governments and citizens […]
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Architecture of the National Security State
Introduction What we are witnessing in the United States today is not a series of isolated policy excesses or unfortunate “overreaches,” but the maturation of a coherent architecture of repression — a national security state that fuses intelligence, policing, militarization, and ideological discipline into a single system of control. This system is not reactive; it […]
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Maduro Redux
Trump’s behavior has triggered a recall of Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel, based partly on his life, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In the novel, the protagonist’s employer hires an eccentric Bolivian scriptwriter to write soap opera serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter’s success and increasing popularity. The soap operas become more bizarre and reflect the […]
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Considerations on the Morality of Donald Trump
In an interview with the New York Times, when asked if there were any checks on his powers on the world stage, Trump replied: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” A voice jumps in to ask: “Not international law?” “I don’t need […]
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A Protest That Kinda Wasn’t
If the first two weeks of January are any indication, the United States is in for a helluva lot more protests and rallies. In fact, unless the current regime in the White House and their cronies turn over a small forest of new leaves real soon, the price of poster board futures is going to […]
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“Peace Board” Is Another Brick in His Personal Occidental Empire
Original photo by FoxNews There are moments in political life when the surface events are so loud, so chaotic, so distracting that they obscure the deeper shift taking place beneath them. We focus on the headlines, the personalities, the daily provocations — and miss the architecture being built in the background. But every once in […]
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I Used to Be a Critic of the Two-Party System – Now I Wish We Had One
I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war on Venezuela. The senator’s reply, with my translations of his Washington-speak (in italics) provided in brackets, is as follows: I have been opposing the administration’s […]
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