The Trump Corollary constitutes not only an ideological and imperialist offensive against decolonial currents and multipolar tendencies in Latin America, but also a strategic project whose assault on Venezuela has broader geopolitical implications.

A man who cannot even pronounce the name of the Iranian general he ordered to be assassinated in 2020, or the name of the “supreme leader” of Iran whom he helped murder in 2026, finally did what Netanyahu wanted to be done: attack Iran on behalf of Israel.

Trump's attempt to use American economic dominance as a geopolitical weapon is colliding with the deeper imperatives of global capitalism.

“It’s not meant to be happening here.” Louise Starkey, an Australian influencer in Dubai posted those words to the internet in response to Iranian missiles hitting the United Arab Emirates.

Beyond the well-known dispossession and exploitation, this apartheid manifests in tight surveillance of Palestinians’ speech, facilitated by companies such as Facebook, which collaborate with Israel.

The simplest way to think about the surge in oil and natural gas prices is as a big tax on consumers of these products.

We are watching Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu conduct a war that is evil. There is no banality to be observed.

“I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, the CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir.

We are not actually at war, yet the war is going very well!

The war that began on February 28 can realistically be deemed to be the formal opening of World War III because what is at issue are the terms on which the entire world will be able to buy oil and gas.

On January 23rd, I ignored a factually incorrect State Department warning about chavista motorcycle gangs “kidnapping Americans” and flew into the airport in La Guaira, Venezuela, for a 30-day reporting assignment for TeleSur.

Let’s review the shifting rationales (all fallacious) for Trump/Netanyahu’s criminal attack on Iran that has quickly engulfed much of the Middle East:

We’d live in a much different world today if Harry Truman had been impeached and removed from office over his surprise Korean “police action” instead of receiving a retroactive congressional rubber stamp.

They are still lying about the Iraq War.

Francesca Albanese has evoked the ire of Israeli officials, the US government, and Western countries that have failed to stop, and continued to support, Israel’s genocide in Gaza. They are mad at her for doing her job and excelling at it.

We have been here before, and we know what comes next: chaos, destruction, and death.

The current Israeli-US military campaign against Iran began in January 2020, when the United States assassinated General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad, Iraq.

Americans should not be fooled or led astray by the corporate media or the Beltway consultant class: fact-free fearmongering and warmongering about Iran have been among the most thoroughly bipartisan positions in Washington for many decades.

Abandoning negotiations mid-course signals that diplomacy can be overridden by force even when progress is visible. That perception will resonate far beyond Tehran.

The US bombed Afghanistan for 20 years and weeks after finally leaving, the Taliban returned to power, more brutal than ever, with lots of scores to settle against the Afghans who had naively allied themselves with the US.

The relentless exploitation of victims of tragedies and their families to advance his fascist policies is one of the most grotesque set-pieces in Trump’s long-running political schtick.

For more than two decades, America’s forever wars have been coming home in large and small ways. But in 2026, death cards made famous in a war that ended more than 50 years ago — a war that America’s president dodged — have made a reappearance.

If you think about it, the world’s not that wide. It only feels that way on maps. It gets pretty narrow at key pressure points like the thin ribbon of water called the Strait of Hormuz.

The empire’s decline persists, and with it, its extension to the US economy as a whole. And it will continue whether or not Trump finds another law to use to justify tariffs and whether or not SCOTUS invalidates it.

The two most important institutions for implementing national security decisions—the Department of State and the National Security Council—have essentially vanished.

Sold as a diplomatic initiative, the gathering of the Board of Peace in Washington functioned instead as a spectacle condoning Israeli war crimes, disciplining resistance, and rebranding occupation as peace.

The pathetic nature of the dominant class in the West: Epstein’s friends are cowards.

“The last three years are indicative of an acceleration in the warming. They’re not consistent with the linear trend that we’ve been observing for the 50 years before that.”

"Jesse Jackson’s two runs, in 1984 and 1988, were the last Democratic presidential campaigns I had any interest in joining."

Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a brutal armed conflict that began in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The war is rooted in Sudan’s post-colonial history of militarized rule, peripheral neglect, and outsourced repression.

We are what we pretend to oppose. Only worse.

Trump has set out to suffocate Cuba without mercy.

Jesse Jackson: a Tribute.

The ‘War on Drugs’ is a facade for the development of various mechanisms of imperialist intervention that, since the 1970s, have involved military financing, the installation of military bases, and explicit support for candidates in electoral contests.

Why are the Teamsters endorsing Greg Abbott?

“Anti-Israeli sentiment is not, without more, antisemitic messaging.” That sentence—quoted by U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns in Boston—is at the core of his January 5, 2026, court order dismissing federal claims against me in the Sussman v. MIT lawsuit.

The New York Times still gives Israel the benefit of the doubt on the USS Liberty.

“You can’t imagine how it touches every part of our lives,” she sobbed. “It’s a vicious, all-encompassing spiral downward... We have electricity only 3 to 6 hours a day. There’s no gas for cooking, so we’re burning wood and charcoal in our apartments."

Our government and society is being run by men who are actively preparing themselves for a societal collapse.

Last year marked the deadliest year on record for murders among Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 21 percent of Israel’s population but sustain 80 percent of the murders. That is one murder every 36 hours.

I had the honor of moderating this brilliant (and important) panel on the threat of AI, featuring Ray Acheson, M. V. Ramana, and Roger Peet. @haymarketbooks.org @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social @justseeds.bsky.social @toosphexy.bsky.social @rayacheson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIy...

A permanent state of emergency has settled in.

Reason and the rule of law have collapsed, replaced by the naked exercise of state violence in defense of an apartheid politics.

On 5 February 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) — the last remaining arms-control pact between the United States and Russia — is set to expire. Moscow offered to Washington to voluntarily extend it for a year, but Trump recently shrugged it off.

A new wave of resource wars are emerging as the AI drive also ramps up.

There has been much discussion, both here and around the world, of the possibility of a flight from the dollar. This has always been a serious risk since Donald Trump took office, but the risk increased enormously from his deranged rant in Davos last week.

Trump's strategy: Never ask for permission.

Zionist Expansion: A First-Hand Account of Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Southwestern Syria.

Cheney’s “Dark Side” tactics aren’t for black sites anymore. They’ve come home to roost against Americans in broad daylight. www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/26/w...

More than 1,700 medical personnel have been killed by Israel since October 2023. Almost all of Gaza’s medical facilities are destroyed. And yet, on December 25, 230 Palestinian medical students celebrated graduation. www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/26/o...