May 27, 2025
the destruction in Northern Gaza on May 27. Photo: Reuters.
Israeli attacks left some 80 dead and more than 160 wounded in the last 24 hours in various areas of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health authorities reported today. (more…)
By Ximena Hasbach on May 22, 2025
CECOT, El Salvador’s torture prison for rent
Donald Trump’s war on immigrants has been a cornerstone of his second term. The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has been a key ally in a deportation campaign that has reached new levels of brutality — the Trump administration is paying Bukele’s government to disappear deported migrants inside the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), Latin America’s largest prison notorious for human rights abuses and a complete lack of transparency. (more…)
By Daniel Seara on May 25, 2025
Dr. Alaa Al Najjar, Palestinian mother of nine children, massacred in a bombing by the Zionist army.
We live in a society where being a caring person is not valued. It is suspicious. It is “soft.” And the algorithm, like the market, penalizes tenderness and rewards backstabbing. Why care if you can stand out? Why empathize if you can trample? That is the logic that has turned scoundrelism—that mixture of cynicism, selfishness, and smiling cruelty—into an aspirational identity. The scum is the new hero of late stage capitalism. (more…)
By Johana Tablada on May 24, 2025
Mike Hammer in Miami
Below is an almost exhaustive analysis of the main lies, half-truths, and inconsistencies in the press conference given by Mike Hammer, head of mission at the US Embassy in Cuba, on May 22, 2025, in Miami (with an air of intervention), with an emphasis on the following elements: (more…)
May 23, 2025
Sabastio Salgado, photo: Gorka Lejarcegi
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, musician Gilberto Gil, and other Brazilian personalities highlighted the extraordinary work of photographer Sebastiao Delgado, who died on Friday at the age of 81. (more…)
May 16, 2025
Dina Boluarte being sworn in as president in 2022. .
Peru’s leader, Dina Boluarte, holds the unenviable world record of being the least popular president on planet Earth, according to data from the polling firm Ipsos. The controversial Peruvian president, who came to power after an institutional coup, has only a two percent approval rating. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on May 21, 2025
Father Paco tear gassed during the retirees protest in Buenos Aires on May 14. Photo: UTEP
For several months now, Argentine retirees have continued a young anti-neoliberal political tradition in Argentina: they have been demonstrating in front of the National Congress every Wednesday against the economic policies of Milei’s project, which have greatly impacted their lives. Pagina 12 is reporting that 82 pensioners were injured by the Bullrich gendarmes in today’s demonstration. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on May 22, 2025 from Havana
Like Mambrú, Zuckerberg went to war, and who knows what other perversions he and his cyber cronies will get up to. photo: ap
Big tech companies are no longer hiding their alliances: business is at war, and Meta knows it. The parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads has launched a direct offensive to integrate itself into the US war architecture. According to Forbes this week, Mark Zuckerberg’s oligopoly has begun hiring former Pentagon officials and national security advisers, such as Francis Brennan, a former Trump aide, to manage its relations with the state and military apparatus (https://acortar.link/f97cBV). (more…)