Escalating the Escalation
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/18/escalating-the-escalation/
Greg Grandin provides a short history of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. By Greg Grandin TomDispatch Today, Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad.…
#Politics #Commentary #LatinAmerica #Mexico #TrumpAdministration #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Venezuela #Vietnam #AlfredMccoy #DrugCartels #DrugEnforcementAgency(dea) #DrugWar #GregGrandin #GulfOfAmerica #PresidentBarackObama #PresidentBillClinton #PresidentGeraldFord #PresidentRichardNixon #U.s.PresidentDonaldTrump #U.s.PresidentJoeBiden #VicePresidentJ.d.Vance #VietnamWar

Vietnamese Still Uncompensated for Agent-Orange
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/05/vietnamese-still-uncompensated-for-agent-orange/
Fifty years later, the impacts of the war on victims of the U.S. defoliation operation have never ended, writes Marjorie Cohn. U.S. Rep. Tlaib is trying to provide recompense. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout April 30 marked 50 years since the…
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Vijay Prashad: Strangling Venezuela’s Economy
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/02/vijay-prashad-strangling-venezuelas-economy/
What the United States did to Chile between 1970 and 1973 is precisely what they have been doing to Venezuela since Trump’s 2017 “maximum pressure” campaign. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research No country should go through what Venezuela…
#Politics #Chile #Commentary #Secrecy #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Venezuela #AttorneyGeneralJohnMitchell #C.i.a.DirectorRichardHelms #ChileanCoup #Copper #HenryKissinger #JuanGuaidó #MauricioClaverCarone #PetróleosDeVenezuela(pdvsa) #PresidentHugoChavez #PresidentRichardNixon #PresidentSalvadorAllende #Sen.FrankChurch #U.s.PresidentDonaldTrump #U.s.SecretaryOfStateMikePompeo #VenezuelanMaximumPressureCampaign #VenezuelanSanctions #VictorJara #VijayPrashad