W. T. Whitney Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.
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Venezuela border conflict mixes drug trafficking and regime-change ambitions
April 16, 2021Colombian and the U.S. hope to utilize any drug-linked humanitarian crisis as an opening to further destabilize Venezuela’s government.
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Stopgap methods won’t fix migration challenge
March 30, 2021The Biden administration wants to fix the migration problem, but truly tackling it would require a betrayal of basic capitalist economic assumptions.
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UN report slams U.S. economic sanctions against Venezuela
February 19, 2021PW correspondent W.T. Whitney examines a just-released UN report on the dire economic situation in Venezuela caused, at least in part, by U.S. sanctions.
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Unsubstantiated ‘sonic attack’ allegations still hobble U.S.-Cuba relations
February 17, 2021While the embassy stand-off persists, planning for normal relations by the new Biden administration is hobbled.
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Kerala Communists involve youth and women in carrying out their mission
February 5, 2021Kerala has a population size similar to California but a per capita annual income of $300.
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Cuba develops COVID-19 vaccines, takes socialist approach
February 4, 2021Fighting a pandemic in Cuba, one realizes, is no casual matter. Nor is the health of Cuba’s people.
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In parting blow, Trump administration hits Cuba with ‘terrorism’ declaration
January 13, 2021Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted the irony of a nation recently the victim of domestic terrorism now turning around and accusing Cuba of terrorist leanings.
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New book: Indonesia was model for anti-communist massacres, U.S. complicity
January 7, 2021In many places, to whisper “Jakarta” or scrawl the word on public surfaces served as a warning to activists.
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