By Chauncey DeVega on September 2, 2016 Photo: Ross D. Franklin – AP
The American corporate news media owes the world an apology. Donald Trump — a man whose politics have more in common with the loudmouth drunk at the local tavern who rages aloud about “those people” and “minorities” is one step away from becoming the president of the United States. (more…)
September 1, 2016
Dilma Rousseff entrenched herself as soon as she received confirmation that she had been dismissed from the presidency of Brazil on Wednesday. “This story does not end here”; “We will return” to “fight”, she promised combatively. (more…)
By Venessa Beeley on September 3, 2016
Vanessa Beeley and Henry Lowendorf of the US Peace Council delegation
At the end of July 2016 the US Peace Council delegation entered Syria to meet with members of the elected Syrian government and opposition party members living inside Syria as opposed to those who have lived outside Syria since the beginning of the US allied war against Syria that was being fomented long before 2011. (more…)
By Nora Barrows-Friedman on September 1, 2016
Photo: Wisam Hashlamoun – APA images
The Israeli army invaded the Dheisheh refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem early Friday morning last week. Soldiers shot the legs of two youths among those confronting the raiding army. (more…)
September 1, 2016
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in San Juan Wednesday to block the first scheduled conference on the installation of a financial control board to remedy Puerto Rico’s crippling debt crisis but slammed by critics as an anti-democratic, neo-colonial policy that will redistribute wealth from the island nation to Wall Street. (more…)
Statement from Resumen Latinoamericano on the eve of the demonstrations in Venezuela
By Carlos Aznárez on August 31, 2016
Photo: Bill Hackwell
There are times when doubts and hesitations become complicities. There are circumstances where reservations and discussions about internal contradictions of a particular political process pushed to the background by a greater evil. (more…)
August 31, 2016
Today will be forever marked as a day of shame against the Constitution of the Republic of Brazil. This day the sovereign will of 54 million Brazilians, who only 2 years ago endorsed with their vote the re-election of the legitimate President Dilma Rousseff, was fraudulently mocked. (more…)
September 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s speech to the American Legion convention Wednesday was a full-throated declaration of the right and responsibility of the United States to control the world by military force. Clinton pledged to keep the US the dominant global military power, to uphold the military alliances through which US imperialism controls Europe and the Far East, and to wage war unilaterally if deemed necessary, regardless of world opinion. (more…)