By Marcos Roitman Rosenmann on June 6, 2024
When social pain is an escape valve to feel pleasure, we are in the presence of a broken society. Politically administered with a language of hate and pointing blames, social pain is a weapon in the hands of shamans. Argentina suffers from the syndrome of autolytic injuries. It bleeds out of its own free will. (more…)
By Roger Ricardo Luis on June 7, 2024
the helicopter crash site, photo: Avatar
The death on Sunday, May 19, of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, when the helicopter in which he was traveling crashed in a mountainous area of the Persian country, has led to the emergence of several hypotheses about the causes of the event. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on June 6, 2024
Plaza of the Revolution, photo: Bill Hackwell
The Biden administration announced new measures for Cuba that eminent international analysts, usually drooling over the U.S. blockade, have interpreted as a gift to the Cuban government. According to the Treasury Department statement, only the island’s private sector can “open, maintain and remotely use bank accounts in the US. (more…)
By Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala on June 4, 2024
photo: Daniel Hernandez-Sala.
Guatemala City, Guatemala – For the next 2 weeks, in the ongoing historic genocide trial against former Guatemalan military general Manuel Benedicto Lucas García, international experts will bring forth indisputable evidence about the military intelligence and operations of the Guatemalan armed forces during the genocide of the Maya Ixil indigenous people in the early 1980s. (more…)
By Victor Ternovsky on June 6, 2024
Jose Felix Rivas Alvarado, photo: Sputnik
Venezuela hopes to join the BRICS group as soon as possible, the Caribbean nation’s Sectoral Vice President for Economy and Minister of Industries and National Production, Jose Felix Rivas Alvarado, said in an exclusive with Sputnik. (more…)
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…)