US imperialism

Chris Slee reviews David Brophy's new book, which looks behind the fear campaign about China, and the issues of human rights, the US-Australia alliance and economic rivalries.

United States President Joe Biden administration regards China's economic rise as an "existential threat" to the US Empire, writes Barry Sheppard.

Fridges in Mexico are empty of beer because production has ceased in this industry deemed non-essential amid the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Tamara Pearson. However, United States-owned Constellation Brands is defying local orders and continues to produce聽for export to US consumers.

This year has been the most violent year on record for Mexico, with almost intentional homicides between January and September.

Haiti鈥檚 capital, Port-au-Prince looks post-apocalyptic, reflecting the fierce class war which has raged here since last year, if not since 1986, writes Kim Ives.

Palestinian leaders have criticised US President Donald Trump鈥檚 much-hyped and long-awaited for Middle East peace, unveiled on June 25 in Bahrain, as more neo-colonialist containment.

US president Donald Trump has said an April 4 chemical weapon attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria鈥檚 Idlib province that killed more than 70 people with air strikes against Syrian military targets.

Written days before the Idlib atrocity and the US air strikes, The Intercept co-editor Glenn Greenwald looks at Trump鈥檚 escalation of the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 in the region.

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Did you know that the Trump administration almost went to war with Iran at the start of February?

Perhaps you were distracted by as national security adviser or by President Donald Trump鈥檚 latest .

Venezuela鈥檚 Foreign Ministry issued a statement on February 14 denouncing a move by the Trump administration to sanction Venezuelan Vice-President Tarek El Aissami over drug trafficking allegations.

On February 13, the Treasury Department froze all of El Aissami鈥檚 alleged assets in the US under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. This makes Venezuela鈥檚 vice-president the top-ranking official of any country to be sanctioned in this way.

January 25 marks 12 years since I left my beloved country, Iraq. The day I left I didn't know that over a decade later I would still be abroad, forever a foreigner.

I had a dream that things would get better, that I could go back and live there. That I could walk around freely in a stable country. None of us foresaw the horrors that awaited all, especially the ones who stayed.

More than 100 Honduran and international human rights and social justice groups have thrown their support behind a newly launched independent investigation, led by international legal experts, into the murder of .

Demonstrators gathered on November 2 in the Colombian capital of Bogata and the US capital, Washington DC, to simultaneously protest outside the International Finance Corporation, the private lending arm of the World Bank, against the shares it holds in Canadian mining company Eco Oro Minerals Corp.

The company鈥檚 sole asset is a mining concession in one of Colombia鈥檚 high altitude wetlands, known as the paramos, which provides fresh water for millions of Colombians, the Center for International Environmental Law said in a statement.