By Roger D. Harris and Joe Emersberger on September 6, 2025
the supposed drug boat destroyed by the US
President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a small motor vessel in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. He alleged that the skiff came from Venezuela and was loaded with illicit drugs headed to the US. (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…)
By Bill Hackwell on September 1, 2025 in Detroit Michigan
all photos: Bill Hackwell
In a tremendous organizing effort, the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine: Gaza is the Compass in Detroit has just concluded after a 3 day convention that organizers report drew 4,600 participants from around the US and abroad. The event flew in the face of Trump and his pro Zionist team who are the underwriters of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. (more…)
Aug. 25, -19 killed at Nasser Hospital in a double-tap strike with one missile hitting first, then another moments later as rescue crews arrived. 5 journalist were also killed raising the toll to 245. photo:Abdallah FS Alattar/Anadolu
Joint statement by the Cuban chapter of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity, the internationalist collective Juntas por Palestina and the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity on August 25, 2025, Havana (more…)
by Vijay Prashad on August 22nd, 2025
Karen Paulina Biswell (Colombia) Nama Bu’ (We Exist), 2015
Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are forced to live life as if there is nothing strange about what is happening around us. When we read about war, it is disconnected from our lives, and many of us want to stop listening to anything about the human misery caused by weapons or by sanctions. The scholasticism of the academic and the hushed tones of the diplomat are silenced as the bomb and the bank wage war against the planet. After authorising the atom bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima (Japan) on 6 August 1945, US President Harry S. Truman announced on the radio: ‘If [the Japanese] do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth’. (more…)
By Diego Sequera on August 21, 2025
No other country in Latin America has as intense a way of doing politics as Bolivia. The official end of a 20-year political cycle, which began last Sunday, will soon enough prove this once again. (more…)
By Elson Concepcion Perez on August 7, 2025
On eight occasions, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat visited the island at Fidel’s invitation. Photo: Liborio Noval
The Palestinian cause was one of Fidel’s causes. From the very beginning of the triumphant Revolution, he dedicated his efforts and solidarity to it, expressing this in Cuba, in international forums, and at the highest level at which our country raised its voice. (more…)
By Becca Renk on August 4, 2025
Nicaragua’s 2025 nutrition census. photos: Becca Renk
I remember the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother’s breast. He weighed 13 ½ pounds.
It was the summer of 1999, and I was weighing babies in Nueva Vida. I’d come to Nicaragua in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch to help in any way I could through the Jubilee House Community and its project in Nicaragua, the Center for Development in Central America (JHC-CDCA). (more…)