YouTube video by Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO)

YouTube video by Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO)

YouTube video by Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO)

Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean ColonySteve Howell, University of Massachusetts Press, £26.99PUERTO RICO is a forgotten colony – a US possession ultimately governed from...

Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean ColonySteve Howell, University of Massachusetts Press, £26.99PUERTO RICO is a forgotten colony – a US possession ultimately governed from...

SHADOW World Investigations (SWI) and Paul Holden, author of The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy, are today announcing a new investigative project about the t...

In 1954, against a background of rebellion and repression in Puerto Rico, the Eisenhower administration redefined Monroe to apply to any dissent in Latin America that the US deemed "not indigenous."

In 1954, against a background of rebellion and repression in Puerto Rico, the Eisenhower administration redefined Monroe to apply to any dissent in Latin America that the US deemed "not indigenous."

In the 1940s, the gradual unraveling of colonialism offered hope to Puerto Ricans demanding independence. But the archipelago was of military importance to the US — so Washington used economic threats and repression to retain it.

"Guam and Puerto Rico are still US possessions for reasons that are obvious from a glance at an atlas: they are priceless military outposts guarding the world’s two great oceans."

Cold War Puerto Rico

Cold War Puerto Rico

Peter Mandelson once told me that the company he enjoys most is of people from "a strictly bourgeois background.” Writing for Jacobin, I looked at the irony of how those connections brought him down.

The secretary of state has provoked the ire of Britain’s first black woman lawmaker and put the spotlight once again on how the US has historically treated people of his own heritage.

The secretary of state has provoked the ire of Britain’s first black woman lawmaker and put the spotlight once again on how the US has historically treated people of his own heritage.

The secretary of state has provoked the ire of Britain’s first black woman lawmaker and put the spotlight once again on how the US has historically treated people of his own heritage.

Britain’s prime minister is severely wounded by his disastrous appointment of an Epstein-associated US ambassador and could soon be ousted. But Labour needs more than a makeover.

My piece below for Tribune discussed how US threats to Britain over Greenland have exposed the lie of a ‘special relationship’ and called for Britain to have an independent, pro-peace foreign policy.

My piece below for Tribune discussed how US threats to Britain over Greenland have exposed the lie of a ‘special relationship’ and called for Britain to have an independent, pro-peace foreign policy.

If we're under imminent threat from Russian drones and submarines, why is the government still prioritising deploying forces in the Middle East and Indo-Pacific?

As the US gears up to attack Venezuela and grab its vast oil reserves, it is using Puerto Rico – a country it colonised in the 19th century – as a base to stage the attacks.