By Carlos Aznárez on July 20, 2016
Last Tuesday, people gathered on the streets to cook dinner in a common cooking pot and to give it out, in a hundred different places around the city of Buenos Aires. It was a political act of resistance of the Confederation of Workers of Popular Economy (CTEP) and Barrios de Pie (Neighborhoods Rising), (more…)
By Sergio Alejandro Gómez on July 20, 2016
Photo: Juvenal Balan
A year after diplomatic relations between the two countries were reestablished on July 20, 2015, Granma International spoke with Josefina Vidal, director general for the United States at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations, to discuss Cuba-U.S. relations as they stand today. (more…)
July 18, 2016
A total of 66,404 Argentine workers have lost jobs in the public sector, including nearly 2,000 in the Senate, in the first six months of Macri’s presidency. (more…)
By Christina Schiavoni and William Camacaro on July 11, 2016
You may have seen the headlines about Venezuela – headlines that allude to food scarcity, rioting, people eating stray animals to survive, and a country on the brink of starvation. These stories are not only alarming, but perplexing, too. (more…)
By Pepe Escobar on July 18, 2016
When Turkish President/aspiring Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport early Saturday morning, he declared the attempted coup against his government a failure, and a “gift from God.” (more…)
By Counter Current News Editorial on July 16, 2015
Mass graves of undocumented Mexican immigrants have been found in Texas, and it has been confirmed that Border Patrol agents are the ones who buried them there. Some who saw the bodies said it reminded them of “something out of Nazi[-era] Germany.” (more…)
By the Caribbean Chapter on July 14
The murders, earlier this month, of two young African-American men — Philando Castile and Alton Sterling — by white American police officers, should bring home to all African-Barbadian and African-Caribbean people the critical importance of the United Nations International Decade For People of African Descent, (more…)
By Rick Sterling on July 15, 2016
Recently I went on a 15 day visit to Russia organized by the Center for Citizen Initiatives. The group visited Moscow, the Crimean peninsula, Krasnodar (southern Russia) and St. Petersburg. In each location we met many locals and heard diverse viewpoints. (more…)