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Chaos: The Trump Doctrine for Latin America
The US, under Trump, is unapologetically an empire operating without pretense. International law is for losers. A newly minted War Department, deploying the most lethal killing machine in world history, need not hide behind the sham of promoting democracy. Recall that in 2023, Trump boasted: “When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would […]
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Zohran Mamdani Will Follow the Path of AOC, Bernie, and Brandon Johnson
The disenfranchised, cast aside people of the US find hope when an AOC, Brandon Johnson, Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders campaigns and wins public office. These campaigns overcame corporate backed opponents, relying on people power not corporate financing, organizing many thousands of our fellow working people to participate. Yet, possessing public office does not change […]
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The Quiet Plot to End Progressive Government in Honduras
Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean grabs the headlines, while quieter moves to destabilize other progressive Latin American governments go unnoticed by corporate media. A key case is a plot that would create chaos enabling a neoliberal candidate to be declared victor, with Washington’s connivance, in Honduras’s elections on November 30. At stake is four […]
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How Censorship and Smears Are Chipping Away at Democracy and Freedom
Do Journalists Protect or Harm Democracy? Almost half (45%) of teens in a recent survey by The News Literacy Project said journalists harm democracy. Only 56% believed reporters value fairness and accuracy. 80% concluded that news content is subjective, and nearly 70% thought press outlets intentionally add bias to their coverage. The cynicism illustrated in […]
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ICE is Coming to Town: Easier Access to the Ocean, Far Far Away from Portland
Coming to a town nearby, or just right inside your city limits — Concentration Camps. Last night (11/13), citizens crowded Newport City Council chambers and the nearby Recreation Center to make comments about the possibility of a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) detention facility at the Newport Municipal Airport. Each speaker had two minutes to […]
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Who Was Eugene Debs?
Zohran Mamdani’s quoting of Eugene Debs in his recent victory speech (for mayor of New York City) should awaken interest in the man who gained a name for himself as “Mr. Socialism.” For seventeen years Debs was the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, starving himself of sleep to bone up on politics, economics, and history. With […]
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“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage and Chaos
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair. Now that the same playbook is being dusted off for Venezuela, the parallels […]
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Gaza: The Arsonist’s Laurels
There is a peculiar, and telling, absurdity to the coverage of the Trump Administration’s agreement between Israel and Hamas. After entering office, this administration faithfully continued the efforts of its predecessor by providing the means Israel requires to conduct its genocidal campaign in Gaza. One could therefore be forgiven for thinking that leveraging this support […]
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The BBC’s Foolish Gift to Donald Trump
It began with a revelation in The Telegraph on November 3. The paper had seen an internal memo in the BBC pointing to editing on its October 2024 Panorama programme of two parts of US President Donald Trump’s speech in January 2021. The sin was not in the editing but its liberal manner, suggesting that […]
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Let’s Shift Federal Subsidies to Loans After 1 Year, Starting With Oil/Gas Industry?
The origin of federal subsidies—to businesses, industries, farmers, national infrastructure—began with our country’s first Congress (1789) approving startup financing that banks and other sources couldn’t or wouldn’t provide. The idea then (and now) was that if these investments were successful, they would trigger other enterprises. Subsequent jobs would follow, feeding consumer spending, and, ultimately, federal […]
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