By Vijay Prashad on June 5, 2024
In the wars against the Iraqi people the concussions of US bombs destroyed the water and sewer lines in Baghdad. photo; Bill Hackwell
In their apartment in Baghdad, Iraq, my friends tell me how they were impacted by the horrors of the illegal war imposed by the United States in 2003 against their country. Yusuf and Anisa are members of the Iraqi Federation of Journalists and both have experience as freelance journalists for Western media companies that came to Baghdad in the midst of the war. (more…)
By José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on June 4, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
The numbers alone are shocking. As of January 2024, the latest data available from the media consulted, “Israel” had dropped over 65,000 tons of bombs on Gaza, the equivalent of about five times the destructive power of the bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It is more than likely that from January to the present that number has at least doubled. (more…)
By Ngugi wa Thiong’o, on June 1, 2024
Kenyan author and academic, Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Dear William Ruto,
The images of your recent State visit to the USA were very disturbing to me and to every patriotic Kenyan.
I saw you seated on a chair, grinning, while Biden stood behind you, his face beaming with satisfaction. Why not? He had just announced that you had signed off our beloved Kenya to make it a non-member ally of NATO. (more…)
June 3, 2024
Cubans support their country in the Plaza of the Revolution. photo: Bill Hackwell
The member states of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) supports Cuba’s right to build its own model without foreign interference and ratify that “the Cuban people and government have the right to build the political, social and economic model that they decide.” (more…)
By Manuel Pérez Rocha L. on June 3, 2024
Bukele begins his 2nd term on June 2. photo: Víctor Peña – El Faro
Last February, Nayib Bukele won the presidential elections in El Salvador by a wide margin; his party, Nuevas Ideas, also won 54 of the 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly, and the vast majority of the mayoralties. His power is now almost absolute. (more…)
June 1, 2024 from Havana
Norita Cortiñas with Pedro Pablo Prada, Cuba ambassador to Argentina
In Cuba they have also felt the passing of Norita Cortiñas, one of the first Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Founding Line, who were formed into a human rights organization by mothers of detainees-disappeared during the last Argentine military dictatorship. (more…)
By Michael Fox on May 30, 2024
Bertha Oliva posing in front of the photos of some of the 200 detained and disappeared. photo: Michael Fox
In Honduras, family members of the victims of state violence in the 1980s have been marching for 40 years to demand justice for the disappearance and death of their loved ones. Now, there’s a chance they may see reparations. An unprecedented bill that would provide compensation for the family members of the victims is working its way through Congress. (more…)
By Berta Joubert-Ceci on May 31, 2024 from Puerto Rico
A corporate sham to keep stealing from the people
The Citizen Victory Movement
As in many parts of Our America, in Puerto Rico we are also in an election process this year. Although the general elections are in November, this week the two colonial parties that have so far alternated the administration of the country, the Popular Democratic Party, or PPD that advocates the permanence of the colony under the guise of the Commonwealth, and the New Progressive Party (NPP) that advocates the incorporation of Puerto Rico into the United States, will hold primaries. (more…)