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The United States’ Long War on Cuba
May 18, 2026 A U.S. invasion would only mark the bloodiest phase in an extended bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty and providing an example of independence from Empire, writes Eric Ross. People in Minneapolis, Minnesota hold up a banner in support of Cuba. (Ann Wright) By Eric Ross CommonDreams In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people.
The United States’ Long War on Cuba
In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people. Escalating sanctions have further tightened the noose of a punitive US blockade that has strangled the island for more than half a century.
The United States’ Long War on Cuba
In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people. Escalating sanctions have further tightened the noose of a punitive U.S. blockade that has strangled the island for more than half a century.
Our Long War on Cuba
In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people. Escalating sanctions have further tightened the noose of a punitive U.S. blockade that has strangled the island for more than half a century.
The Price of Empire and the Costs of War on Iran
What will the costs of the latest round of illegal, ill-fated U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East amount to? Some of the toll is already clear. Washington has squandered billions of dollars on a reckless war of aggression against Iran. A merciless campaign of aerial bombardment has driven millions from their homes. American and Israeli airstrikes have rained destruction on 10,000 civilian sites and already killed more than 3,000 people in Iran and Lebanon.
The Price of Empire and the Costs of War on Iran
What will the costs of the latest round of illegal, ill-fated U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East amount to? Some of the toll is already clear. Washington has squandered billions of dollars on a reckless war of aggression against Iran. A merciless campaign of aerial bombardment has driven millions from their homes. American and Israeli airstrikes have rained destruction on 10,000 civilian sites and already killed more than 3,000 people in Iran and Lebanon.
The Price of Empire and the Costs of War on Iran
What will the costs of the latest round of illegal, ill-fated U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East amount to? Some of the toll is already clear. Washington has of dollars on a reckless war of aggression against Iran. A merciless campaign of aerial bombardment has driven millions from their homes. American and Israeli airstrikes have rained destruction on 10,000 civilian sites and already killed more than 3,000 people in Iran and Lebanon.
Eric Ross, Forever War (Yet Again!)
The Price of Empire and the Costs of War on Iran What will the costs of the latest round of illegal, ill-fated U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East amount to? Some of the toll is already clear. Washington has squandered billions of dollars on a reckless war of aggression against Iran. A merciless campaign of aerial bombardment has driven millions from their homes.
We Must End the Global Nuclear Arms Race Before It Ends Us
— from TomDispatch On February 5, with the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, the only bilateral arms control treaty left between the United States and Russia, we are guaranteed to find ourselves ever closer to the edge of a perilous precipice. The renewed arms race that seems likely to take place could plunge the world, once and for all, into the nuclear abyss.
Eight Decades Later, It Remains One World or None
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The End of New START and the Enduring Nuclear Nightmare
On February 5th, with the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, the only bilateral arms control treaty left between the United States and Russia, we are guaranteed to find ourselves ever closer to the edge of a perilous precipice. The renewed arms race that seems likely to take place could plunge the world, once and for all, into the nuclear abyss.
Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of U.S. Hypocrisy on Drugs
For decades, Washington has treated narcotics not as a public health challenge but as a political instrument, inflating them into an existential national security threat when expedient and minimizing them when inconvenient. Every accusation is a confession.
The Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of U.S. Hypocrisy on Drugs
Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,” exporting terrorism to the U.S. via fentanyl, now labeled as a “weapon of mass destruction.” The charge is not only false, given that virtually no fentanyl enters the country from Venezuela, but transparently political and pretextual.
Brace Yourselves For Trump's New Monroe Doctrine
December 23, 2025 Brace Yourselves For Trump’s New Monroe Doctrine Trump’s latest exploits in Latin America are just the latest expression of a bloody ideological project to entrench U.S. power and protect the profits of Western multinationals. Ad Policy Donald Trump at a campaign event in Potterville, Michigan, in August 2024. (Bill Pugliano / Getty Images) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com.
The Trump Corollary
In every instance where the U.S. intervened in Latin America, leaving tens of thousands dead and entire societies destabilized, it was never really communism that Washington feared. In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people.
The Trump Corollary
U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through false or inflated claims that Nicolás Maduro, its president, is directing narco-terrorism against the United States, serve as a convenient pretext for deeper and more direct intervention.
Winning a Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledge Is Hard. Keeping It Is Harder.
Activism / StudentNation / November 6, 2025 Winning a Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledge Is Hard. Keeping It Is Harder. Nearly a decade after promising to withdraw millions in fossil fuel investments, the University of Massachusetts has stalled on its clean energy transition. What happened? Ad Policy Students and alumni at Tufts University demonstrate for fossil fuel divestment in April 2015. (David L.
Winning a Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledge Is Hard. Keeping It Is Harder.
Activism / StudentNation / Nearly a decade after promising to withdraw millions in fossil fuel investments, the University of Massachusetts has stalled on its clean energy transition. What happened? This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism. For more StudentNation, check out our archiveor learn more about the program here.
Reviving the History of the American Left
The unsustainable economic order that has defined our national life has corroded our democracy, eroded our shared sense of humanity, and propelled our institutions and our planet toward collapse.
What’s in a Name?
What’s in a Name? The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing what such figures do. Surrounded by a coterie of illiberal ideologues and careerist sycophants, he and his top aides have dispensed with pretense and precedent, moving at breakneck speed to demolish what remains of the battered façade of American democracy.
What's In a Name? The 'Defense' Department Has Always Been About War
The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing what such figures do. Surrounded by a coterie of illiberal ideologues and careerist sycophants, he and his top aides have dispensed with pretense and precedent, moving at breakneck speed to demolish what remains of the battered façade of American democracy.
What’s in a name?
The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing what such figures do. Surrounded by a coterie of illiberal ideologues and careerist sycophants, he and his top aides have dispensed with pretense and precedent, moving at breakneck speed to demolish what remains of the battered façade of American democracy.
What’s In a Name?
The “Defense” Department Has Always Been About War The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing what such figures do. Surrounded by a coterie of illiberal ideologues and careerist sycophants, he and his top aides have dispensed with pretense and precedent, moving at breakneck speed to demolish what remains of the battered façade of American democracy.
What Does it Mean to Remember Hiroshima As Bombs Drop on Gaza?
August 14, 2025 What Does it Mean to Remember Hiroshima As Bombs Drop on Gaza? This year, the sanitized appeals to peace, hope, and resilience in memory of the catastrophe have become increasingly hollow. Ad Policy A huge cloud resulting from the massive fires started by “Little Boy,” the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, is photographed from a reconnaissance plane a few hours after the initial explosion on August 6, 1945.
80 years after Hiroshima, the words "never again" ring hollow
On Aug. 6, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki, devastated three days later in 1945, would be the last places to endure such a fate. Within that commemorative framework, Hiroshima has been effectively rendered an abstraction and reduced to a cautionary tale.
Eighty Years of Talking Peace and Preparing for Nuclear War
On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki, devastated three days later in 1945, would be the last places to endure such a fate.
What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?
What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima? On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki, devastated three days later in 1945, would be the last places to endure such a fate.
What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?
Originally appeared at TomDispatch. On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki, devastated three days later in 1945, would be the last places to endure such a fate.
Eighty Years of Talking Peace and Preparing for Nuclear War
Eight decades later, humanity (or at least its leadership) continues to demonstrate that it learned remarkably little from the horrors of Hiroshima. On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima.
What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?
Eighty Years of Talking Peace and Preparing for Nuclear War On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki, devastated three days later in 1945, would be the last places to endure such a fate.
What do we forget when we remember Hiroshima?
On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki, devastated three days later in 1945, would be the last places to endure such a fate. Within that commemorative framework, Hiroshima has been effectively rendered an abstraction and reduced to a cautionary tale.
We're Still Living With the Decisions Made During the Trinity Tests
July 23, 2025 We’re Still Living With the Decisions Made During the Trinity Tests Eighty years after the first atomic weapons tests at Los Alamos, humanity has yet to fully reckon with the power of mass annihilation. Ad Policy A photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, codenamed Trinity, on July 16, 1945. (AP Photo) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.
We're still living an atomic nightmare
In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to two billion lives worldwide. The instability of a global order structured on nuclear apartheid has also come into sharp relief in the context of the recent attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States.
80 Years After the Trinity Nuke Test, We’re Still Living an Atomic Nightmare
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to two billion lives worldwide.
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