Por Bill Hackwell el 24 de Julio 2024 desde Washington, DC
A pesar de enfrentarse a múltiples cuerpos de policía, llegados desde lugares tan lejanos como Nueva York, y a un Capitolio rodeado de pesadas vallas metálicas para proteger a un criminal de guerra, decenas de miles de decididos partidarios del pueblo palestino, procedentes de todo Estados Unidos, acudieron para decir no a la visita del genocida presidente israelí Benjamin Netanyahu, que estaba siendo recibido con los brazos abiertos por los especuladores de la guerra y la gran mayoría de los representantes demócratas y republicanos en el Congreso. (more…)
By Marina Menéndez Quintero on July 25, 2024
THINKING about the post-electoral scenario in Venezuela makes one fear moments of tension already latent and announced by a war of polls rarely seen in that country since the arrival of the Bolivarian process, and preceded by the reluctance of the right-wing Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) to assume the commitment to respect what the National Electoral Council (CNE) issues on Sunday night, voting day. (more…)
By Atilio Boron July 21, 2024, from Buenos Aires
Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions. An integral, multidimensional, multifaceted crisis. The unlikely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics is sinking the main economic indicators to unprecedented levels. Activity indicators are falling, factories are running at half speed, retailers are seeing their sales plummet, inflation is far from being abated, the dollar is soaring, unemployment is growing uncontrollably and workers’ salaries, whether registered or precarious, as well as retirement and pension amounts, are collapsing month after month. All this is celebrated as a success by the exotic parishioners of the anarcho-capitalist sect and its unscrupulous beneficiaries. (more…)
July 20, 2024
US authorities monitored Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for five decades, amassing an enormous amount of data on his political and union activity, with at least 819 documents totaling 3,300 pages. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on July 24, 2024 from Washington, DC
Despite facing multiple police agencies, who came from as far away as New York, and a Capitol encased in heavy metal fences to protect a war criminal, tens of thousands of determined supporters of the Palestinian people, from around the US, came to say no to the visit of the genocidal Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, who was being welcomed with open arms by the war profiteers and the great majority of Democrat and Republican representatives in Congress. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 23, 2024 from Havana
The countdown begun for July 26, our National Rebellion Day, and this year the eyes of the people will be on Sancti Spiritus, the main venue of the celebrations. Cuba will mark 71 years of one of the most heroic events in the long history of struggle of this small island nation. On that day, in 1953, a group of young men led by Fidel Castro, attempted to storm the Moncada Barracks, Cuba’s second-largest military fortress. (more…)
By Larry Marquez on July 22, 2024
The president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, informed that the authorities of the electoral body have “distributed 100% of the machines for the presidential election,” a task carried out with the presence of witnesses of all political parties participating in the election throughout the national territory, thus complying with the regulations for the upcoming July 28 presidential elections. (more…)
By María José Iglesias on July 20, 2024
Although the bullet was “centimeters away” from killing him, “last Saturday’s attack is like a gift from heaven for Donald Trump, as it comes right on time to complete his victimizing story”. This was said yesterday by Ignacio Ramonet writer, journalist and sociologist based in France and a leading figure of the anti-globalization movement, (more…)