By Roger D. Harris and Joe Emersberger on September 6, 2025
the supposed drug boat destroyed by the US
President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a small motor vessel in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. He alleged that the skiff came from Venezuela and was loaded with illicit drugs headed to the US. (more…)
By Alejandra García, September 4, 2025
Pensioners and people with disabilities protest Milei’s austerity plan. Photo: Anadolu/Getty
In a key vote, the government of far-right politician Javier Milei suffered a major setback in Congress on Thursday. The Senate rejected the presidential veto of the Disability Emergency Law, which had already been rejected by the Chamber of Deputies. This is the first time in 22 years that Congress has managed to override an executive veto. The vote was celebrated inside and outside Congress, where hundreds of people awaited the decision. This resolution comes amid a scandal over an investigation into alleged bribery in the purchase of medicines by the National Disability Agency (Andis), in which senior government officials are implicated, including the president’s sister, Karina Milei. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 4, 2025
At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
Per Krohg (Norway), Untitled (Mural for Peace), 1952.
There is only one treaty in the world that, despite its limitations, binds nations together: the United Nations Charter. Representatives of fifty nations wrote and ratified the UN Charter in 1945, with others joining in the years that followed. The charter itself only sets the terms for the behaviour of nations. It does not and cannot create a new world. It depends on individual nations to either live by the charter or die without it. (more…)
By Pino Arlacchi on September 2, 2025
Arlacchi says the Trump administration’s main interest is to access Venezuela’s massive oil reserves. (Miraflores Palace)
During my time as head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), I frequently traveled to Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, but never to Venezuela. There was simply no need. (more…)
Sept. 1, 2025 from Caracas
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro
On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference with representatives of international media in which he analyzed the current geopolitical situation in the Caribbean.During the meeting with journalists, the Bolivarian leader addressed the international situation from multiple angles, the main ones of which are presented below. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on September 1, 2025 in Detroit Michigan
all photos: Bill Hackwell
In a tremendous organizing effort, the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine: Gaza is the Compass in Detroit has just concluded after a 3 day convention that organizers report drew 4,600 participants from around the US and abroad. The event flew in the face of Trump and his pro Zionist team who are the underwriters of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 1, 2025
the myth of the “Tren de Aragu” bogey man
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the United States government agencies began to repeat the name “Tren de Aragu”’ as if it were the new al-Qaeda. In January 2025, the White House designated Tren de Aragua as a “foreign terrorist organisation”, and in March, the administration of US President Donald Trump evoked the Alien Enemies Act (1789) to warn against the ‘invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua’. The US State Department, in February 2025, had declared that Tren de Aragua was an international drug cartel on par with such already recognised cartels as the Mexican Las Zetas (now Cártel del Noreste), Sinaloa, and Jalisco cartels as well as the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) that was formed in Los Angeles (US) and has now taken root in El Salvador thanks to a decade-long US deportation policy. Unlike Tren de Aragua, these other cartels are well-known, and their work has been frequently documented by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). (more…)
August 30, 2025
thousands rally in Honduras for Rixi Moncada
More than 30,000 groups participated in the large popular mobilization in support of Rixi Moncada, a fighter who promises to continue the refounding of Honduras.
“Honduras is not only in resistance; Honduras is in revolution, and from San Pedro Sula we are beginning this 90-day process toward the presidency of the Republic,” said presidential candidate Rixi Moncada today during the great mobilization in support of her candidacy convened in that Honduran city. (more…)