Marjorie Cohn rebuts the efforts by the Trump administration — including the president’s claim that the U.S. owns Venezuela’s oil — to justify its illegal aggression.
White House Can’t Make Venezuela Attack Legal
Tag: Monroe Doctrine
Trump & Rubio: Cuba, Mexico, Colombia Could Be Next
Jake Johnson reports on the Progressive International declaration: “The ‘Trump corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today.”
Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Thuggish Empire
The Venezuelan tanker seizure and Denmark’s anxiety about Greenland both show the White House’s bullying 2025 National Security Strategy in brazen action.
Venezuela & U.S. Imperialism in Latin America
Eric Ross on Washington’s longstanding project to shape the hemisphere in ways that would entrench U.S. power further and protect the profits of Western multinationals.
Latin America’s Long Fight Against the US for Sovereignty
John Perry reviews the book AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin.
Vijay Prashad: ‘Dreams Are Wearing Thin’
Hundreds of millions of people from the Americas to China have been killed or subdued so a small part of the world — the North Atlantic — could enrich itself. That is madness.
The Lethality of the Global Monroe Doctrine
From its attacks on Global South countries to its willingness to go to war with a great power such as Russia, the U.S. is increasingly employing military force to compensate for its economic decline, writes Vijay Prashad.
Caitlin Johnstone: Empire News Roundup
Recent developments touch on Latin American sovereignty, the narrative pivot on calling Ukraine a proxy war and U.S. investment in the reckless nuclear standoff.
A Period of Great Tectonic Shifts
Vijay Prashad presents six theses about the establishment of the U.S.-shaped world order in 1990 and its current fragility in the face of growing Russian and Chinese power.
The Earth Belongs to America
It’s not something it can come out and directly say, because admitting it sees itself as the rulers of the world would make it look tyrannical and megalomaniacal, writes Caitlin Johnstone.