SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests

ADMIRAL Alvin Holsey demonstrated selective outrage over the fear of multipolarity in the Western hemisphere. The Southcom commander confirmed the official US military doctrine for the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region on February 13, before the Senate armed services committee.
In a poorly disguised assertion of US hegemony, Holsey envisioned “an enduring commitment to democratic principles … to engender security, capability, democratic norms, and resilience that fuel regional peace, prosperity, and sovereignty.”
Threats to the vision of a Pax Americana

FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance

Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely

