Category: Thinking Politically
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The importance and neglect of “social ecology”,
The term “social ecology” is used to refer to the political philosophy advocated by Murray Bookchin. It will be argued below that this is unfortunate as it gives the term “ecology” a quite different meaning to that applied in the biological realm. The latter sense is extremely important in the social realm, but has not…
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The United States attacks Venezuela and kidnaps its president in an illegal operation
A shocking and illegal escalation has plunged Latin America into crisis. In the early hours of January 3, the United States launched a military assault on Venezuela, unleashing explosions over Caracas and seizing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a brazen act that defies the United Nations Charter. Washington now claims custody of Venezuela’s…
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Colombia’s Historic Pact Unifies the Left into a Single Party
The CNE accepted the merger of the left-wing parties Unión Patriótica, Polo Democrático Alternativo, Comunista and Progresistas, leaving only Colombia Humana out.
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US Strikes Venezuela, Trump Claims Maduro “Captured and Flown Out”
In the early hours of Saturday, January 3, 2026, a dramatic escalation shook Venezuela and raised alarms across the hemisphere. Shortly thereafter, Trump announced that the United States had carried out a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela and that President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, had been “captured and flown out of the country.”…
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SPEECH: Why We Use Violence, Frantz Fanon, 1960
Fanon’s work, “Why we Use Violence” transcends the historical moment in which it was written. It speaks prophetically to other moments of repression and resistance with a clarity, passion, and humanity that is rarely matched. And one hundred years after his birth, as the “murderous reactions” of the colonists continue unabated, Fanon’s prophetic, revolutionary genius…
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De-Baathification 2.0: One Year Since the Fall of Syria
Western media celebrate the terrorist they supported as Syria’s savior. Syria’s new U.S.-backed rulers have erased anti-colonial history, enacted neo-liberal policies, and welcomed Israeli occupation, fulfilling the goals of the regime change project.
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Why Washington Labels Volunteer Healers “Forced Labor” — and How We Counter the Smear
When Edith M. Lederer ― a UN press-room fixture since Vietnam ― files a wire, the voice of Uncle Sam still echoes through the copy. Her latest piece for the Associated Press claims that Cuba’s global health brigades amount to “forced labor.” The accusation doesn’t come from a patients’ union or a medical watchdog; it…
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Against climate resilience
Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.
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The Great Hoax Against Venezuela: Oil Geopolitics Disguised as ‘War on Drugs’
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.
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Latin America Should Pursue Active Non-Alignment
. The postwar international order that the United States largely designed and built is in crisis, with multilateralism – its guiding principle – under serious strain. This decline was long in the making. During the 1970s oil crises, developing countries, responding to the perceived weaknesses of the global system, advanced the New International Economic Order…
