Originally signed five years ago, the US-Colombia “free-trade” agreement, or FTA, has now passed the US Congress, along with similar FTAs with South…
Bolivia has erupted in conflict over the government’s controversial plans to construct a highway through the Isiboro-Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory…
The tremendous power of private corporations is one of the central characteristics of US society. It’s no coincidence that those corporations, the…
Based on a March 18, 2011, presentation to the Stony Brook University conference “Defining the Future of Public Higher Education” Around…
The following is the expanded version of an article posted by Foreign Policy in Focus on December 29, 2010 This past September,…
On December 3 the Chilean polling firm Latinobarómetro released its annual public opinion poll of eighteen Latin American countries. The poll provides…
David Swanson’s War Is A Lie (Charlottesville, VA, 2010) may be the most comprehensive antiwar statement available in the English language. …
Young people tend to enlist in the military when they see no better option for their future. Far from being an “all-volunteer”…
In a recent Z blog, Michael Albert described “Venezuela’s Choice”: essentially, the Chávez government can either back-step and seek to appease the…
US intellectuals and the corporate press, including these groups’ more liberal representatives, have long exhibited an awing reverence for the country’s high-ranking…
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