Rick Sterling

Rick Sterling is a journalist and member of the Syria Solidarity Movement based in the San Fransico Bay area. He can be reached at [email protected]

The People’s Summit: What the Summit of the Americas Might Have Been if America Was Not “Exceptional”

The Summit of the Americas showed the U.S. attempting and failing to impose its will on the hemisphere. The People’s Summit showed a different vision that is in accord with the wishes of most countries and people. 

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By Rick Sterling
People's Summit 2022 Feature photo

LOS ANGELES – Earlier this month, there were two summits in Los Angeles: the Summit of the Americas, hosted by the U.S. State Department; and the People's Summit hosted by U.S. and international activist organizations. The two summits were held in the same city at the same time but could not otherwise be more different.   Summit of Some of

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Why Shady Billionaire-Funded NGOs Pushed a PBS Report on Nicaraguan “Conflict Beef”

The PBS story about “conflict beef” in Nicaragua reveals how billionaire-backed foundations defame and punish those who are too independent.

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By Rick Sterling
Nicaragua Conflict Beef Feature photo

MISKITO COAST, NICARAGUA -- There is much truth in the old saying, “He who pays the piper, calls the tune,” and the neoliberal era has spawned individuals with incredible wealth who, through “philanthropy,” can feel good and flex their influence at the same time. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they almost universally

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Queen of Chicken Hawks: Victoria Nuland Had A Hand in Every US Intervention in the Past 30 Years

As the Senate prepares to confirm Nuland for Under Secretary for Political Affairs, a reflection of her last 30 years in government shows how she was connected to nearly every foreign policy disaster undertaken by the United States.

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By Rick Sterling
Victoria Nuland Feature photo

President Joe Biden's nomination of Victoria Nuland for Under Secretary for Political Affairs, the third-highest position at the State Department, is a dangerous sign. Nuland exemplifies the neoconservatives who have led American foreign policy from one disaster to another for the past 30 years, all while evading any shred of accountability. As a

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JFK and the Strategy of Peace 

Many in the West don’t realize just how much JFK was an exception to the norm when it came to US foreign policy.

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By Rick Sterling
JFK Peace Feature photo

John F Kennedy (JFK) was inaugurated as president of the United States nearly sixty years ago today. In the less than three years before he was assassinated in November of 1963, he managed to initiate major changes in America’s foreign policy. Those changes are documented in books such as “JFK and the Unspeakable” and “Betting on the Africans” and

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I Observed Venezuela’s Elections Firsthand: Here’s What the US Media Got Wrong

Rick Sterling traveled to Venezuela in early December as part of a group of international election observers and says that some in the US media have gotten the story seriously wrong.

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By Rick Sterling
Venezuela Elections Feature photo

In early December, I traveled to Venezuela to serve as an election observer during the country’s national assembly election. I was part of a group of eight people from Canada and the United States organized by CodePink. There were about two hundred international observers in total, including the Latin American Council of Electoral Experts. I have

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While Trump Berates Portland Looters, the US Gov’t Continues to Plunder Syria with Impunity

President Trump has lashed out at rioters and looters in Portland and Kenosha, yet halfway around the world, the US military is busy plundering what’s left of Syria’s wealth on a vastly greater scale and with little publicity.

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By Rick Sterling
Syria Oil Feature photo

The United States and Turkey have been plundering Syrian infrastructure for years. Beginning in late 2012 and continuing through 2013, some 300 industrial factories were dismantled and taken to Turkey from Aleppo, the industrial capital of Syria. "Machinery and goods were loaded on trucks and carried off to Turkey through the Cilvegozu and

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Diana Johnstone’s “Circle in the Darkness” Gives an Insider’s View Into Media Manipulation

A pillar of the antiwar movement, Diana Johnstone provides critical insights from her time working in Associated Press and AFP newsrooms in the US and Europe and much more.

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By Rick Sterling
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Diana Johnstone has written a compelling and insightful book. It is mostly a review and analysis of significant events from the past 55 years and concludes with her assessment of different trends that are being debated on the Left today, including "identity politics,” Antifa, and censorship. This is a book to be read, enjoyed, and discussed The

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