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A new template for conflict, but Cuba poses the same old questions
Let's examine the recent United States military strike on Venezuela not only as a spectacle but as a test case. What happened in Caracas in early January was not simply the removal of…
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Marco Rubio and the narco-terrorist elite
(Editor’s Note: This article summarizes an article first published in The American Prospect and written by Maureen Tkacik. To see the original article, click here.)
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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 US via fentanyl,…
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Understanding the dangerous Trump-MAGA national security strategy
After living on life support in the last half of the post-Cold War, Pax America is now a memory. It was relegated to the dustbin of history with the “Trump” National Security Strategy…
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Traumatizing children in the name of immigration enforcement
There is no honest way to talk about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and children without confronting a brutal truth: the U.S. government is knowingly inflicting trauma on…
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The angry tide has washed into Chile
On 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed over Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party of Chile by…
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The Trump Corollary is not foreign policy — it’s imperialism in broad daylight
Let’s stop pretending we don’t know what we’re looking at. The so-called “Trump Corollary” — Washington’s newly declared right to reshape Latin America by force, covert ops, or economic…
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Trump’s Caribbean lawlessness
There is a difference between boldness and lawlessness. What the Trump administration calls a campaign to choke cocaine flows and punish “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean increasingly…
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The end of the “Hug Bibi” era
In his sweeping and unsparing critique of Democratic Party policy toward Israel, former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes argues, in an opinion piece written for The New…
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The Cartel de los Soles designation: A useful disguise for regime-change options
On November 24, 2025, the United States Department of State officially designated the Cartel de los Soles (CdS) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The formal designation,…
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