By Atilio Borón on June 2, 2020
Thousands of youth protest in Oakland, Photo: Bill Hackwell
In 1944 Gunnar Myrdal, a Swede who had received the Nobel Prize in economics, wrote a book entitled “The American Dilemma” to unravel the roots of the so-called “black problem” (more…)
June 1, 2020
We share the anger and outrage over the murder of George Floyd and the murders of countless other people of color by an out of control and militarized U.S. police system. The majority (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on May 31, 2020
Cuba’s “Henry Reeve” medical brigade arrives in Nicaragua Photo: La Voz del Sandinismo
On Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The standard Western canonical sources of record, namely international institutions, non-governmental organizations and media outlets, practically (more…)
By John Perry on May 30, from Masaya, Nicaragua
Sanitation squad who work for the Managua city council. Photo: el 19digital.com
Every country in the world is trying to balance its fight against the virus with the need to have a functioning economy, and there is plenty of debate about what the balance should be. (more…)
By Roxane Gay on May 30, 2020
After Donald Trump maligned the developing world in 2018, with the dismissive phrase “shithole countries,” I wrote that no one was coming to save us from the president. Now, in the midst of a pandemic, we see exactly what that means. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on May 31, 2020
“What we are witnessing in the United States is a failed social experiment,” the philosopher Cornel West said in an interview with CNN about the murder by the police of African-American George Floyd. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera On May 29, 2020
Cuban doctors going door to door, Foto: Ricardo López Hevia
Cuba has several medications unique in the world in terms of their effectiveness in promoting the survival of COVID-19 patients in serious and critical condition. While, world-wide, (more…)
By David Brooks on May 25, 2020
In a chat with friends, someone asked. “Do you think Trump will win in spite of the 100,000 dead and about 40 million unemployed due to his mismanagement of the pandemic?”, and (more…)