By Hedelberto López Blanch on August 27, 2026
Image: Adan
The Convicted U.S. President Donald Trump, after suffering a humiliating military defeat in the unjustified war he launched on February 28 against Iran, has now announced the “most devastating economic operation in U.S. history” against Iran. (more…)
August 26 2026
Ecuadoran President Noboa meeting with troops
The government of Daniel Noboa, through a ministerial agreement, has allowed US soldiers and contractors to enter Ecuador without a visa, even if they are not working on security operations. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 27, 2026
Donald Trump extended the TWEA’s authority over Cuba until 2027
Some laws have been around for a long, tedious time.
On August 20, Donald Trump once again invoked legislation dating back more than a century by extending the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) applicable to Cuba through September 14, 2027. The executive order did not impose a new sanction. It did something worse: it kept in place a legal exception dating back to 1917. (more…)
August 25, 2026 from Caracas
Screenshot showing the low-profile boat struck by the US Southern Command in the Eastern Pacific on August 23, 2026. Photo: US Southern Command.
The US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has resumed its lethal attacks against small boats in Latin American and Caribbean waters. It killed two unidentified people in the Eastern Pacific this Sunday, August 23, after a 63-day pause that had raised hopes among human rights advocates that the extrajudicial killing campaign had ended. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcon on August 26, 2026
“They bring desolation and call it peace.” – Gaius Cornelius TacitusImperial politics has always been a mixture of arrogance, lies, manipulation and inconsistencies. These are part of its tools of power. (more…)
By Lea Aschkenas on August 25, 2026
Havana, foto: Bill Hackwell
In his 1986 book, Michael Parenti described a situation that remains relevant forty years later: when the United States fears that another country’s non-capitalist political model—and its resulting advances in social justice and quality of life—might lead its own citizens to question their own system, it routinely imposes an embargo and sanctions against that country. The media then reports on the suffering caused by these policies, while avoiding any mention of the embargo and sanctions. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on August 24, 2026
Toussaint Louverture
There is a red thread—of blood, fire, and dignity—that connects the axe of the maroons in Our America with 21st-century anti-imperialism. This thread was born on the night of August 13–14, 1791, in the clearing of Bois Caïman, Haiti. (more…)
August 25, 2026.
In response to what they described as “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” perpetrated by Israel in Gaza, more than 300 Mexican labor unions and social organizations will join a new regional coalition to promote the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against companies identified as accomplices in the killing of thousands of Palestinians and the occupation of their territory. (more…)