The World Cup Has Always Welcomed the World. Not This Time.
June 15, 2026 | The Trump administration has made it difficult for fans and others to participate in this year's games.
Articles by Chinua Akukwe
Trump Is Using the Wrong Talking Points on Iran
June 9, 2026 | The U.S. president wants to repeat the Venezuela scenario. But it's not that easy.
Manufacturing Consent for War against Cubans
May 29, 2026 | Because Cuba is not complying rapidly enough to Washington's demands, the Trump administration has escalated its threats, military preparations, and legal actions.
Washington Is Making Hezbollah’s Case
May 21, 2026 | No deeply embedded armed actor has ever been sustainably disarmed by coercion alone.
Where Legal Challenges Are Helping Deportees
May 20, 2026 | In at least two cases, the Trump administration has complied with judicial decisions to return a deportee.
War, Arrogance, and the Unraveling of U.S. Power
May 15, 2026 | U.S. unraveling will not be imposed from abroad. It will come from within.
Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire (And Ten Steps to Take to Do It)
August 22, 2013 | We are like the British at the end of World War II: desperately trying to shore up an empire that we never needed and can no longer afford, using methods that often resemble those of failed empires of the past.
Land ‘investment’ deals in Africa: Say ‘no way!’
July 12, 2011 | Land investments - the purchase or lease of vast tracts of land from mostly poor, developing countries by wealthier food-insecure nations and private investors for the production and export of food and agrofuel crops - have become a very fast-paced international phenomenon.
Free Market Famine
October 26, 2006 | Niger is the poorest country in the world. Neither humanitarian aid nor free-market reforms prevented its 2005 food crisis.
HIV/AIDS in Africa: Time to Stop the Killing Fields
October 6, 2005 | The UN estimates that Africa will need $3 billion just for basic treatment and prevention programs, yet the U.S. and other Western countries donated only $300 million in assistance in 2000.