By Sacha Llorenti September 19, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Historian Eric Hobsbawn described the 20th century as a short one that began in 1914 with the start of World War I and ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He called this period the Age of Extremes. (more…)
By John Perry and Francisco Dominguez on September 15, 2025
El Pais; the Spanish newspaper that without shame supported the 2018 coup attempt in Nicaragua.
The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their neighbors. Further, apparently harmless community meetings are really “a mechanism of social control” where they “feel watched.” El Pais sources a survey carried out “independently” by an organization called Hagamos Democracia (“Let’s Make Democracy”), based in Costa Rica. Its president, Jesús Tefel, says that people can’t “express opinions openly for fear of being betrayed.” El Pais’s conclusion is that Nicaraguans live under “constant surveillance and repression.” (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, on September 15, 2025
Alex Saab and Nicolas Maduro
Observing the US naval maneuvers in Caribbean waters and the provocations and threats against Bolivarian Venezuela by Trump’s second administration, a similar episode during the tycoon’s first term comes to mind. We are referring to November 2020, when the United States deployed a warship—the missile cruiser USS San Jacinto—off the coast of Cape Verde: to prevent, according to the New York Times, “the regime” in Venezuela and Iran (and later Russia) from attempting to free Alex Saab, the Venezuelan diplomat who was kidnapped and tortured for trying to break the economic siege on Venezuela by importing food and medicine. This was at the height of COVID-19, a global pandemic. (more…)
September 15, 2025
A hundred media outlets and journalists’ associations have signed a statement asking the US government to withdraw its previously announced plans to shorten the duration of visas for foreign journalists to less than one year. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, Resumen Latinoamericano, September 13, 2025.
On September 11, the day that commemorated Pinochet’s coup d’état in Chile against the socialist government of Salvador Allende 52 years ago, in the European Parliament, what can rightly be considered a new Nazi-fascist (and Zionist) international once again bared its teeth against Bolivarian socialism. With 355 votes in favor, 173 against, and 15 abstentions, MEPs effectively approved a resolution proposed by the Spanish party Vox and the Patriots for Europe group to include the so-called Cartel of the Suns, which the far right claims is led by Nicolás Maduro, on the list of terrorist organizations. The text also included the Clan del Golfo and dissident factions of the Colombian guerrilla groups, the FARC and the ELN, noting that they all pose a threat to regional and international security. (more…)
By Néstor Prieto Amador on September 6, 2025, from the flotilla
One of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Photo: Eva Manez, Reuters
The Global Sumud Flotilla is advancing towards Gaza and is already sailing towards Tunisia, divided into two large groups. Both expeditions will meet in Tunisia at the end of the week, when they will be joined by another twenty boats in what the organizers consider to be the “largest humanitarian mission in solidarity with Palestine.” (more…)
September 5, 2025
One day after Genoa dockworkers threatened to paralyze European ports if Israel touches the Gaza flotilla, Brazilian oil workers demanded the protection of all crew members. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 4, 2025
At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
Per Krohg (Norway), Untitled (Mural for Peace), 1952.
There is only one treaty in the world that, despite its limitations, binds nations together: the United Nations Charter. Representatives of fifty nations wrote and ratified the UN Charter in 1945, with others joining in the years that followed. The charter itself only sets the terms for the behaviour of nations. It does not and cannot create a new world. It depends on individual nations to either live by the charter or die without it. (more…)