By Dilma Rousseff on September 6, 2016
Today, the Federal Senate has made a decision which shall go down as one of history’s great injustices. The senators who voted for the impeachment have chosen to tear the Brazilian Constitution apart. (more…)
By Angel Guerra Cabrera on September 1, 2016
Photo: Roberto Chile
Fidel Castro was the first chief of state to interest himself in what today many studies call climate collapse and in gaining a clear vision of its basic causes. That’s why his words at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, almost a quarter century ago, sound so real today. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on September 8, 2016.
Ten months are not a lot to a country, but in Argentina, under the current neoliberal and deeply retrograde government, they feel like a century. Mauricio Macri hasn’t held back when it came to imposing adjustments on all the whole population —except on the business class linked to transnational companies, soybean producers, the rural aristocracy and the elites with historical relations to the 1976 dictatorship. (more…)
By Gary Leupp on September 6, 2016
What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?… There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity… You can smell it. It smells like death. (more…)
September 9, 2016
July 20, 2015, Bruno Rodriguez watches the Cuban Flag raised in Washington with U.S. negotiator Roberta Jacobson. Photo Bill Hackwell
Minister of Foreign Relations Bruno Rodríguez Parilla, this afternoon September 9, presented the country’s report on United Nations General Assembly Resolution 70/5, entitled, “The Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States on Cuba,” in a Havana press conference. (more…)
Photo: Bill Hackwell
The 2 day police SWAT military type event called Urban Shield was brought to an abrupt halt today at the Alameda County Fairgrounds California for over 4 hours on Friday. (more…)
By Nika Knight on September 2, 2016 staff writer
Tens of millions of public sector workers in India went on strike Friday to protest Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for privatization and other right-wing economic policies. (more…)
Latin American countries pay for the discriminatory policy favoring Cuban immigrants by the U.S.
August 31, 2016
The United States remains steadfast in the defense of its migratory policies toward Cuba, despite a petition by nine Latin American governments to end the measures. (more…)