by Rick Sterling on August 10, 2024
China’s Chen Yiwen wins gold at 3m springboard diving
US political and media elites tried but failed to sink the Chinese swimming team at the Paris Olympics. The Chinese swimmers performed well despite the increased stress caused by media-induced rumors of “Chinese doping”. And now, the tables are being turned as the US anti-doping regime is coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell and Alicia Jrapko on August 9, 2020
Photo: Albert Eisenstaedt
We are re running this article that we ran exactly 4 years ago to illustrate how much further the struggle for a better world has to go in this precarious time but encouraged by a renewed awakening of people around the world since then. – editorial
This month marks the second year since former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced to the world a campaign (more…)
Edited and translated by Ed Newman on August 9, 2024
Caracas, August 9 (RHC)– More than 300 prominent intellectuals, writers, journalists, political leaders and activists rejected the fascist coup in Venezuela and ratified the electoral victory of President Nicolas Maduro. (more…)
August 8, 2024
The nuclear bombing of Nagasaki by the US.
Western ambassadors in Japan, including those from the United States and Britain, will boycott Japan’s annual peace memorial ceremony in Nagasaki since Israel was not invited. Japan will hold its annual ceremony on Friday marking the 79th anniversary of the US nuclear bombardment of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 8, 2024, from Havana
photo: Ricardo Lopez Hevia
Mijaín López has taken Cuba’s name to the top in the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, in France. on Tuesday, the Greco-Roman wrestling athlete won his fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal, a feat never seen before, admirable, especially for an athlete who is about to turn 41 years old. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on August 8, 2024 from Havana
The Kamala-Trump-Walz-Vance equation (Jessica Sosa Sosa / Cubahora)
While Walz exhibits concrete results at all levels, Vance appears to most voters as a question mark… (more…)
By Saheli Chowdhury on August 6, 2024
Far-right politician María Corina Machado and Edmundo González hold a candle in a religious rally before the Venezuelan elections. photo: Henry Chirinos/EFE.
The Venezuelan far-right former candidate for the presidential elections that were held on July 28, Edmundo González Urrutia, has declared himself the winner despite coming in second place. He has been recognized as the “president” of Venezuela by Washington and some of its vassal states as part of a plot reminiscent of the failed Guaidó project. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on August 7, 2024
As always the world’s media, were part of the lies and falsehoods, to weave a fictitious reality about the Venezuelan elections.
It has been more than a week since the presidential elections were held in Venezuela. If it were a comic movie I would believe it, or even a tragicomedy. But sometimes I find it hard to believe that this reality is really happening. (more…)