March 24, 2022
1999 protest US led war of Yugoslavia. photo: Bill Hackwell
Exactly 23 years ago, NATO countries, without UN Security Council authorization, ordered their troops to bomb the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as part of an offensive operation named Allied Force, under the pretext of a supposed humanitarian intervention to “prevent genocide” of Kosovar Albanians. (more…)
By Silvia Ribeiro on March 26, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Food prices rising rapidly, apparently as a consequence of the war in Russia and Ukraine is having serious impact for many populations, exposing the global vulnerability in which the industrial agri-food system dominated by transnational corporations places us. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on March 25, 2022.
Roldolfo Walsh
46 years after the most atrocious civil-military-corporate-religious and media coup our country has ever endured, it is essential to remember all the resistances that defied the dictatorship during that period. From the most heroic to the most anonymous, carried out in neighborhoods, factories, schools, by countless fighters who never gave up in the face of adversity. Among these experiences, journalism also had its place, and the case of the Clandestine News Agency (ANCLA) is fundamental when taking that into account. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on March 24, 2022
Last Sunday’s legislative elections in Colombia showed the strength of the leftist coalition Historic Pact. With nearly 2.7 million votes, the group led by Gustavo Petro emerged as the most voted political force in the country, which turned into a gain of 16 seats in the Senate and 25 in Congress. (more…)
March 24, 2022
President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen and AMLO
The European Parliament is voicing concern over press freedom and through a resolution, “condemns the frequent attacks on media freedom and journalists” in Mexico—all while Europe itself imposes a general ban on Russian media outlets. (more…)
By Tanya Wadhwa on March 22, 2022
protests against Fujimori’s release
Last week, on March 17, the Constitutional Court of Peru declared the habeas corpus filed by the defense of imprisoned former dictator Alberto Fujimori admissible and reinstated a controversial pardon granted to him by former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (July 2016 – March 2018) in December 2017. (more…)
By Carlos Mauricio Ferolla and Marcelo Depieri on March 23, 2022
photo: ARGmedios
On February 24, war broke out in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army. The war has a global impact on a multipolar international system, hyperconnected and in a critical state, undergoing a process of hegemonic transition from the West to the East. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on March 22, 2022
Book Review: Wild Green Oranges, by Bob Baldock. (Clapton Press, London, 2021, 238 pages)
Wild Green Oranges describes how author Bob Baldock dropped out of college and was at loose ends in 1958. Then he became inspired after a chance viewing of a newsreel. It was about a band of rebels in the remote eastern mountains of Cuba fighting a guerilla war against the US-backed Batista dictatorship. (more…)