One of the most disastrous consequences of the 9/11 aftermath was the pass that the American people gave to their own government. Their anger was focused entirely on the terrorists rather than on both the terrorists and the government that provoked the attacks.
The crusade that George W. Bush launched 25 years ago to “rid the world of evil” only compounded it.
Last Monday, a day before the Republican-controlled House passed a resolution condemning socialism, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital announced that it had acquired a 35 percent stake in North American Blue Energy Partners, one of Venezuela’s largest private oil producers.
Since becoming an independent country in 1962, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago has embraced international principles and rules governing national sovereignty, peace and security, humanitarian principles and justice. Trinidad and Tobago is a member of the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a signatory to many international conventions.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive second-term foreign policy and heavy-handed tariff regime are alienating historically friendly nations, driving the founding members of the BRICS bloc to deepen their strategic cooperation as a bulwark against U.S. pressure.
Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. US median wealth is quite low. This is the real data. By Ben NORTON Join us on […]
Europe urgently needs to re-establish access to Russian oil and gas. Gas prices are high – as all UK energy consumers know – and German gas storage is at a record low for September. Gulf production is degraded, supplies are cut off and its long-term strategic stability undermined.
While capitalism confines the Global South to raw extraction and cheap exports, democratic planning can break dependence, claim technological control, and turn resources into collective economic power.
