By Iroel Sánchez on June 16, 2020
Black Lives Matter mural in downtown Oakland.
There is a scene in the documentary I am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016) in which the African-American writer James Baldwin is interviewed on ‘70s television and the interviewer (more…)
By Pasqualina Curcio on June 15, 2020
Like a lie detector, COVID-19 has made obvious at least two phenomena that have been taking place already over the past (more…)
By Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores on June 16, 2020
Photo: Cubacooperation
A team of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Peru on June 3 to help the Andean nation tackle the coronavirus pandemic. That same day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another tightening of the sanctions screws. This time he (more…)
By Nuria Barbosa León on June 16, 2020
Photo: Juvenal Balán
With another medical brigade departing, this time, to the Turks and Caicos, Cuba shares what we have, as a matter of principle. Without preaching, our actions speak for themselves and are (more…)
June 12, 2020
Ouro Preto Brazil, Photo: Bill Hackwell
In the past 24 hours, Brazil has recorded 909 new COVID-19 deaths, for an accumulated total of 41,828 people dead of the virus. This number places Brazil in second place in the world (more…)
By Margaret Kimberley on June 10, 2020
Everything has changed since the world witnessed George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police. Suddenly, workers are publicly criticizing their bosses. Politicians are backpedaling and (more…)
June 15, 2020
Photo: Bill Hackwell
The US campaign to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade will be launched on June 16th, 2020. The campaign has been (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 13, 2020
As the crisis in the U.S. deepens and the protests that have erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s murder take on a broader tone, old and new wounds of a society in need of profound change are dramatically coming to light. (more…)