US imperialism

“The US Is Committing Terrorism in Venezuela. Why Will Nobody Say That?” Common Dreams, January 10, 2026.

“A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela.” Common Dreams, December 20, 2025.

“Iran: The Things It Won’t Do to Say.” Common Dreams, July 1, 2025.

“With US War Crimes, the Only Crime Is Breaching Secrecy Protocols.” Counterpunch, March 27, 2025.

“Trump, Biden, and Why Elections Don’t Bring Bigger Policy Changes.” Political Power and Social Theory 39 (2023): 7–29.

“Introduction: Trump as Symptom.” Political Power and Social Theory 39 (2023): 1–6.

“Smarter Empire.” Sidecar, March 8, 2021.

“Our Debt to Central American Refugees.” Published by Democratic Socialists of America and Historians for Peace and Democracy, September 9, 2019.

“Will Climate Change Make Family Separations the Norm?” Truthout, August 25, 2018.

“Who Wants the Iran Deal Canceled?” Counterpunch, November 27, 2017. With Richard Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.

“The Huddled Masses Were Never Welcome.” Counterpunch, September 5, 2017.

“A Partial Peace in Colombia.” Against the Current 187 (March-April 2017): 9-11.

“Why They Hate the Deal with Iran.” Counterpunch, July 15, 2015. With Richard Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.

“Targeting the Corporations, Not the Politicians: Social Movement Strategy for a Plutocratic Era.” Jacobin, May 18, 2015. With Michael Schwartz.

“War by Other Means in El Salvador.” NACLA, March 16, 2015.

“Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism: ‘Something That Might Be Called Neocon.’” Against the Current 175 (March-April 2015): 18-22. With Diana Sierra Becerra. Reposted at Jacobin as “Hillary Clinton’s Empowerment.” (Spanish version also available)

“Drug War Winners and Losers” (review of Dawn Paley, Drug War Capitalism). Against the Current 177 (July-August 2015).

“GM’s New CEO Is Not a Feminist.” ZNet blog, May 1, 2014. With Diana Sierra Becerra.

“Negroponte’s War Crimes.” The Michigan Daily (Ann Arbor, MI), February 26, 2014. With Diana Sierra Becerra.

“Washing U.S. Hands of the Dirty Wars: News Coverage Erases Washington’s Role in State Terror.” NACLA Report on the Americas 46, no. 2 (2013): 58-61. Expanded version at ZNet and NYTimes eXaminer.

“Purging the Forces of Darkness: The United States, Monetary Stabilization, and the Containment of the Bolivian Revolution.” Diplomatic History 37, no. 3 (2013): 509-37.

“The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual Distortions of the Latin American Left.” Latin American Perspectives 40, no. 3 (2013): 207-25.

• Revised version published in Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Steve Ellner, 249-69. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
• Spanish translation published as “Buena izquierda, mala izquierda e intervenciones benevolentes: Periodismo al servicio de una agenda neocolonial.” In La izquierda latinoamericana en el poder: Cambios y enfrentamientos en el siglo XXI, ed. Steve Ellner, 321-53. Caracas: Fundación Celarg/Fundación Centro Nacional de Estudios Históricos, 2018.

“The Real Enemy in the Middle East: Why U.S. Leaders Fear Arab Democracy.” Z Magazine 25, no. 9 (September 2012): 41-44.

“Turning Michigan Into Colombia: The Global Assault on Workers and the Prospects for Solidarity.” ZNet, December 26, 2012.

“Contempt for International Law: A Survey of New York Times and Washington Post Editorials on Iran.” NYTimes eXaminer, March 16, 2012. Summary available here.

“Restoring Discipline in the Ranks: The United States and the Restructuring of the Bolivian Mining Industry, 1960-1970.” Latin American Perspectives 38, no. 6 (2011): 6-24.

“US Opposition to Arab Democracy, in Iraq and Beyond.” The Indypendent, November 7, 2011.

“Latin American Opinion and US Policy.” Venezuelanalysis.com, October 30, 2011.

“Kumbaya and Bullets: The Few Winners and Many Losers with the US-Colombia Free-Trade Agreement.” ZNet blog, October 7, 2011.

“Two, Three, Many Colombias: The Logic and Consequences of the US Vision for Latin America.” Foreign Policy in Focus, December 29, 2010. Expanded version posted on ZNet.

“Discrediting Alternatives to Neoliberalism.” NACLA Report on the Americas 43, no. 5 (2010): 45-48. Expanded version posted on ZNet.

“War Preparedness 101” (review of David Swanson, War Is a Lie). ZNet, November 25, 2010.

“Listening to the Generals.” ZNet blog, September 25, 2010.

“Good Left, Bad Left: Compliance and Defiance in US Press Coverage of Latin America.” ZNet, July 17, 2010.

“Honduras, Iran, and the Propaganda Model.” ZNet/Upside Down World, July 5, 2010.

“Obama and Latin America: The First Six Months.” NACLA, July 23, 2009.

“US Policy and Democracy in Latin America: The Latinobarómetro Poll.” ZNet/Venezuelanalysis.com, May 29, 2009.

(Review): Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, by Dahr Jamail, and Blind into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq, by James Fallows. Peace & Change 34, no. 3 (2009): 282-89.

“Colombia and Venezuela: Testing the Propaganda Model.” NACLA Report on the Americas 41, no. 6 (2008): 50-52. Expanded version posted on ZNet.

“Targeting Civilians: The Path to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” ZNet, August 8, 2008.

“The Atomic Bombing of Japan: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Re-examines the Japanese Surrender.” Counterpunch, August 6, 2008.

“The Achievements of War Propaganda: Selling Military Intervention to a Reluctant Public.” ZNet, June 9, 2008.

“Good Veterans and Bad Veterans.” ZNet blog, May 26, 2008.

“Our ‘Good Intentions’ in Iraq: More Imperialist Assumptions in Liberal Criticism of the Invasion/Occupation.” ZNet blog, April 17, 2008.

“The Irrelevance of International Law: Imperialist Assumptions in Liberal Criticism of the War.” ZNet blog, April 9, 2008.

“Iraq the ‘Mistake’: The Pitfalls of Pragmatic Criticism of the War in Iraq.” ZNet blog, April 9, 2008.

“Orientalism in Full Force: Edward Said, Liberals, and Iraq.” ZNet blog, April 9, 2008.

“Neutralizing Radicalism: Capitalism, War, and the Legacy of MLK.” ZNet blog, January 25, 2008.

“The Effects of the US Occupation: Tracking Violence and Instability in Iraq.” ZNet, January 10, 2008. (similar version published in online version of Z Magazine, March 2008)

“What Would a Withdrawal Mean? The US Occupation and Popular Opinion in Iraq.” Counterpunch, January 5/6, 2008.

“U.S. Cuba Policy Is Immoral, Illegal” (letter to the editor). Baltimore Sun, September 1, 2007.