The United States under Trump: against the world and its own people.  By Gonzalo Santos [1] Abstract This essay attempts to analyze the current conjuncture in the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean from the perspective of the historical sociology of the world-system. It seeks to demonstrate that the internal crisis in the US and its renewed imperialist policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean (and Greenland) are intimately related as the result of two hist

The Project 2028 supported by the 50501 People's Movement is excellent as far as it goes, restoring & deepening American democracy, extending the social contract, reining in the plutocracy, and restoring the free press; but it is not as comprehensive, audacious and bold as it needs to be - it falls short of including audacious proposals on two urgent, unavoidable, strategic sets of issues: (1) the international geopolitical & geo-economic questions of peace and just global go

It has become quite the habit for the Hater-in-Chief to smear all immigrants as violent criminals for the crimes of a few, and use it to justify the ongoing cruel, violent, illegal campaign of mass detentions and deportations we have been witnessing, and his callous shutting down of most refugee and other legal admissions programs - even reversing and nullifying all temporary legal statuses. This sharply contrasts Trump's and his acolytes' ho-hum reflexive deflecting and avoi