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(04/03/17 1:18am)
Even as I toured a reclusive corner of Patagonia, Argentina, this past week, I could not enjoy a moment’s peace on Twitter in my youth hostel without a bombardment of sensationalized news about the Trump-Russia story. At this point, Trump’s connections with Russia couldn't matter less to me. I’m far more concerned with the hidden agenda behind this anti-Russian propaganda campaign and, furthermore, the total lack of historical contextualization in United States-Russian relations.
(03/20/17 1:36am)
A group of women stood in a drumline, like that of an army, on the Avenida de Mayo as the band leader kept time with her drum sticks. It was International Women’s Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 8, and by 5 p.m. the other students in my study abroad program and I found ourselves amidst about 100,000 protesters in what was a cross between a music festival and all out revolutionary march. The Argentinian government needs to give these women the rights they’re fighting for.
(03/08/17 11:16pm)
In her dining room, my home stay mother in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has a 10-year-old photo of four Latin American leaders interlocking hands — Néstor Kirchner of Argentina, Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Luiz Lula of Brazil, and Evo
Morales of Bolivia.
(02/27/17 1:18am)
By the time this article runs I will be in the air on a flight toward Buenos Aires to study abroad through the School for International Training. I will finally be ditching the relentless Orwellian propaganda operation that has become United States politics.
(02/19/17 5:25pm)
Finding policy in the reactionary monsoon that is the administration of President Trump may be difficult for others, but it is already clear that Trump intends to carry on former president Barack Obama’s harassing and destabilizing of the oil-rich South American country of Venezuela, which 18 years ago set out to defy the economic model of neoliberalism and the “Washington Consensus” with the Bolivarian
Revolution.
(02/13/17 2:22am)
Donald Trump’s presidency will trigger an unprecedented wave of political organizing, and citizens should be more concerned with government spying.
(02/06/17 2:07am)
A lesser known member of President Trump’s travel ban of Middle East countries is Yemen. Located in the Southern Arabian Peninsula, Yemen has struggled with violence for years. It was the site of Trump’s first special forces operation, a botched raid that targeted Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The raid left more than two dozen, including Navy Seal William Owens and 8-year-old Yemini-American girl Nawar al-Awlaki, dead. Al-Awlaki was the daughter of American terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. Both her father and innocent 16-year-old brother were killed in separate United States drone strikes during the Obama presidency. Though many scorned Trump’s advocacy for killing terrorists’ families and argued the military would never do such a thing, it has become a disturbing reality.
(01/30/17 2:46am)
With the use of the atomic bomb in 1945 the United States set itself on a mission that involved the exporting of violence and terror unparalleled in human history.
(01/23/17 1:47am)
On Saturday President Trump blathered at Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and called the media “some of the most dishonest people on earth” to a crowd of cheering CIA officials. Said to the most thuggish and deceitful organization within the national security state, a government that relies heavily on national security action, the comment had a palpable irony.
(01/09/17 9:54pm)
If I learned one thing in 2016, it is that the centralized media of the United States almost always acts to beat the drums of war. Not that this should surprise anyone. Remember Orson Wells’ line, “You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war” in ”Citizen Kane,” which mocked the real-life media mogul William Randolph Hearst’s encouragement of the Spanish-American
War.
(01/06/17 2:46am)
I enjoy whenever a newscast frames the headline as “What should Trump do about Syria?” The question shocks me because it implies President-elect Donald Trump should be doing anything at all in the Middle East, but it, assuming the United States has a right or duty to shape the history of a nation it helped destroy, is also asking what the U.S. should do about Syria.
(12/11/16 10:35pm)
A popular take that has emerged in recent months and will continue to emerge in the uncertain ones to come is saying the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s victory mark the end of neoliberalism.
(12/04/16 10:35pm)
Examine each presidential debate over the last year and a half. You won’t only find ad hominem, lies and far-fetched promises. Any seasoned political junkie will notice the lack of substance in these debates regarding foreign affairs.
(11/28/16 1:14am)
Fidel Castro once said, “A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a fight between past and future.”
(11/16/16 11:52pm)
Over the weekend, I discovered a stunning lecture given in 1995 by the late essayist Christopher Hitchens. The lecture’s title is “WWII England, and Creeping Fascism in the U.S.”
(11/06/16 10:30pm)
As the world descends into the final hours of election hysteria, something is becoming more apparent — Donald Trump may win. I know, all of our trusted liberal pundits believe a Trump victory to be impossible. However, are we forgetting that these same pundits got the candidacies of both Trump and Bernie Sanders embarrassingly wrong?
(10/30/16 9:50pm)
The forces of capital and state power carried out a huge terrorist operation on Thursday against the nonviolent protesters defending the lands of the Standing Rock Dakota Sioux Tribe.
(10/23/16 9:53pm)
In the sordid history of American imperialism, the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya remains an event many are keen to forget. Historical amnesia is a mainstay in the United States empire, but even as Thursday marked the five-year anniversary of Muammar Gaddafi’s murder by Western-backed rebels, the blowback from the Obama administration’s Libya intervention persists.
(10/16/16 10:00pm)
“Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?” Gen. Jack D. Ripper asks in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.
(10/09/16 9:23pm)
In the Grand Hall of the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center, a crowd listened as Vivianne Smedley recalled the events of Sept 28, 2015. She had received an early morning text from her brother. It read, “I’m leaving the country ... Don’t try to contact me ... I’ll contact you once I’m set up overseas.” Vivianne reported this to IUPD, and Joseph Smedley was announced missing.