Around the world – Page 7 – Struggle

Colombia’s Petro backs Maduro, labels unapproved U.S. military ops ‘aggression’ in Latin America

August 12, 2025 Orinoco Tribune

Through a message posted Sunday, August 10, on social media, Colombian President Gustavo Petro reaffirmed his strong support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This followed recent threats from the Trump administration against the Venezuelan government, […]

The warmonger in chief

August 11, 2025 Gary Wilson

Donald Trump’s claim of stopping “six wars” since January 2025 — boasting he’s “averaging about a war a month” — is a farce meant to obscure his actual warmongering. Fact-checkers rate his sweeping declaration as […]

Trump and China in Brazil

July 26, 2025 Lallan Schoenstein

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose a new 50% tariff on all Brazilian products starting on Aug. 1. According to a July 17 New York Times Op Ed, Trump sent a bellicose letter […]

Trump’s war in Ukraine

July 16, 2025 Nahia Sanzo

July 16 — A day of reactions, broad-brush analyses, and self-serving positions on the message of each of the parties directly or indirectly participating in the war in Ukraine. Tuesday passed between the uncertainty of […]

Reading Fanon in the age of ICE raids and Gaza genocide

July 12, 2025 Colby Byrd

“Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the […]

The Wretched of the Earth: Fanon’s anti-colonial manifesto lives on in Yemen, Palestine, Sahel states

July 10, 2025 Lev Koufax

In the spring and summer of 1961, as Algeria bled through its seventh year of war against French colonial rule, a dying Frantz Fanon poured his revolutionary vision into words. Too weak to write, he […]

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Artists speak up against genocide in Gaza at Europe’s music festivals

July 1, 2025 Ana Vračar

As Europe’s summer music festival season rolls out, mainstream media and governments are struggling to keep Palestine solidarity off the stage. In its coverage of Glastonbury Festival, the BBC focused on censoring the Irish rap group Kneecap […]

U.S. bombs, China builds

June 28, 2025 Sharon Black

China will eliminate tariffs on African countries As global attention focused on the U.S. and Israeli conspiracy to bring about regime change in Iran (alongside the Pentagon’s bombing that risked a regional war crisis), China […]

U.S. bases in the Arab world: A colonial occupation in disguise

June 28, 2025 Khaled Barakat, Al-Akhbar

The recent US aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran has laid bare, long-ignored truth: US military bases are among the most serious threats to the peoples of our region. Today, much of the Arab […]

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The U.S. war machine must be smashed — before it smashes us

June 22, 2025 Sharon Black

U.S. bombing of Iran sets the stage for wider war June 22 — On Saturday, June 21, the U.S. military carried out a direct act of war on the people of Iran. According to Trump’s […]