By Margaret Kimberly on August 10, 2023
It was always about the oil. United States assertions that the government of elected president Nicolas Maduro was illegitimate were always a ruse needed to get U.S. corporate hands on Venezuela’s oil company, CITGO. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on August 9, 2023
Charlie Chaplin, a victim of the witch hunt
History is selective because it has always been written by those in power. We have witnessed centuries of official discourse in which we have been handed down generation after generation what has been chosen to remain in history. Who have been the great winners, who have lost. And until recently we humans believed and nodded our heads without questioning anything. (more…)
August 10, 2023.
Fernando Villavicencio
In response to the assassination of Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio while campaigning yesterday, former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa claimed that “Ecuador has become a failed state. Those who seek to sow even more hatred with this new tragedy, I hope they understand that it only continues to destroy us.” (more…)
A book review by Rick Sterling on August 9, 2023
Many nations in the Americas have suffered from US promoted coups, dictatorships, sanctions and outright invasions. Nicaragua may take the cake for being the most victimized. Now Dan Kovalik has written Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance a book which reviews the history of intervention and resistance up to the present day. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 8, 2023
Assembly of the Peoples for the Amazon make demands to leadership summit. photo: Hannah Letícia
Today, the summit of Amazon countries kicked off in the Brazilian city of Belém amid great expectations for reaching agreements to halt the destruction of the largest tropical rainforest on the planet. It is no coincidence that Brazil is the ideal place for this event, now that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has committed himself to the protection and care of the Amazon since his return to power last January. (more…)
By Pascual Serrano on August 5, 2023
Miguel Diaz Canel, photo: Alejandro Azcuy Domínguez / Presidency of Cuba
Cuba, a country of just over eleven million people, is always in the news. However, its leaders are rarely heard. Miguel Díaz-Canel, the first president born after the Cuban revolution, responds to Público, in his first interview to a Spanish media since he took office, about the current affairs of the island in an interview arranged in Havana and later carried out in writing. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton, on August 6th 2023
The patterns of neocolonial intervention in the majority world by the United States and its allies since their victories over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945 are very clear. Almost immediately the Western countries started a cycle of bloody aggression against peoples resisting colonialism, followed later by the dependence of most African and Asian countries on the ruthless Western economic system. (more…)
By Anahi Rubin on August 7, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The Florida State Board of Education approved new guidelines for teaching black history, after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s Republican congressmen passed new laws, which limit educational content in schools. The new guidelines include teaching students that “slaves developed skills that in some cases they were able to use for personal gain.” (more…)