By Emir Sader on September 24, 2025 from Rio de Janeiro
Lula at the UN, photo: AFP
As is tradition at every opening of the UN General Assembly, the presidents of Brazil and the US are the first to take the floor. But rarely, as on this occasion, have the speeches of both leaders been so diametrically opposed. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on September 24, 2025
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens in the White House in Washington on September 22, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein / AP
This week, perhaps the most prominent news story about the ongoing reality show unfolding in the White House was related to the content of the US president’s speech to the high-level segment of the United Nations General Assembly, the breakdown of his teleprompter, and the escalator he was using to get to the plenary session. (more…)
US President Donald Trump of the 193 countries of the world on Tuesday that their nations are “going to hell” because of uncontrolled migration. Photo Xinhua
By Jim Cason and David Brooks, Washington DC and NYC on Sept. 23, 2025
US President Donald Trump declared at a meeting of all 193 countries of the world on Tuesday that their nations are “going to hell” because of uncontrolled immigration and the “hoax” of climate change, insisting that they can only be saved if they work with the United States. (more…)
September 23, 2025 from New York City
The president of Brazil during his speech to the UN General Assembly Photo: United Nations.
“It is unacceptable that Cuba is on the list of state sponsors of terrorism,” Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva said Tuesday in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. (more…)
September 20, 2025
Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello shows on a map the route that a US false flag drug vessel had followed before being captured by Venezuelan authorities. Photo: MIPPCI.
The Venezuelan minister of the Interior, Justice, and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, reported that the United States government is trying to carry out a false flag operation involving planting drugs on Venezuelan vessels in the Caribbean in order to justify military aggression against the country. (more…)
By David Brooks and Jim Cason on September 20, 2025
image: Estrategia.la.
The White House and its allies, after announcing a war against what they call the “radical left,” indicate that they will proceed with investigations and persecution of opposition organizations and individuals whom they accuse of fomenting political violence and even ‘terrorism’ within the United States, and are apparently preparing a list of these “enemies.” (more…)
By Manolo De Los Santos on September 19, 2025
Fidel meeting with Malcom X in the Hotel Theresa in Harlem
In September 1960, in the heart of Black America, Harlem’s Hotel Theresa became the stage for one of the world’s most monumental encounters.
When Malcolm X and Fidel Castro met there 65 years ago, Harlem itself was transformed into a crossroads of revolutionary fervor. The rendezvous would leave an indelible mark not only on New York City but on the entire world, becoming a watershed moment that helped shape the conscience of generations of freedom fighters and sped the rhythm for the struggle for liberation in the United States and across the globe. (more…)
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…)