April 6, 2016
USA, Puerto Rico, Lucia Beach, Flag of Puerto Rico painted on rock
The Puerto Rican Senate and the House of Representatives have both passed an emergency declaration authorizing the governor to suspend payments on $72 billion in public debt — setting up a dramatic showdown between Puerto Rico and hedge funds amid the island’s historic debt crisis. (more…)
April 9, 2016
The progressive presidential hopeful is the sole left alternative in Peru’s neoliberal and corruption-plagued election.
As allegations of corruption swirl around Peru’s presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori in the final weeks of the campaign and questions of electoral fairness threaten to overshadow the political debate, progressive candidate Veronika Mendoza has surged in the polls as a serious alternative to the status quo. (more…)
On April 17, 1961, a mercenary brigade armed, trained and, transported by the CIA, landed at Playa Girón on the Bay of Pigs, as part of Washington’s plans to defeat the nascent Cuban Revolution. The people in uniform, with Fidel on the front lines, defeated the invasion in less than 72 hours
By Gabriel Molina Franchossi on April 7, 2016
General Lauris Norstad, head of Allied Forces in Europe (1956-1963), stated “The Bay of Pigs is the worst defeat of the United States since the War of 1812,” in his analysis of the U.S. government’s failed invasion of Cuba at Playa Girón, on the Bay of Pigs, in 1961. (more…)
April 7, 2016
Venezuela’s foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez posted on her Twitter user a letter for United States Secretary of State John Kerry, requesting him to treat Venezuela with respect, according to the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter. (more…)
During his visit to Argentina, Obama said the country’s new President Mauricio Macri was an example for the rest of Latin America. It appears he is an example of what we shouldn’t be or do
By Enrique Ubieta Gómez on April 4, 2016
Just three years ago, in 2013, I was invited to present one of my books at the International Fair in Buenos Aires. I attended the inaugural session of a Poetry Festival taking place as part of the event, along with other Cuban authors. (more…)
By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo on April 3, 2016
“The empirical reality is that the poisonings have surgically targeted, for the most part, Black and Brown communities.”
A disturbing USA Today Investigation entitled: “Beyond Flint: “Excessive Lead Levels Found in Almost 2,000 Water Systems” exposes the appalling reality that EPA would rather you not know: lead poisoning is widespread throughout the United States. (more…)
By Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada on March 30, 2016
“For those of us who are jailed here nothing is more important than to be remembered”
Leonard Peltier, Leavenworth Prison, 9/1998
While Barack Obama proudly and without blushing expounds on the virtues of North American “democracy” and sermonizes on human rights, an innocent man languishes in his cell, totally isolated, awaiting only death or for something only the President of the United States can do, but Obama has not done. (more…)
Hisham al-Omari, the head of the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO), told Ma’an that the cut had originally been intended to take place in the city of Ramallah and al-Bireh, where most PA institutions are located. (more…)