photo: Bill Hackwell
The following is a full page ad that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner paid for by the Bay Area Saving Lives Campaign and was signed by hundreds. It is reported that House Speaker Pelosi will be leading the congressional delegation to the exclusionary IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week. (more…)
By Gustavo Maranges on June 2, 2022
Chavez gives Obama, a book to read about imperialism in Latin America at the V Summit
The IX Summit of the Americas is about to start. The event will be held between June 8th and 10th in Los Angeles, California. This gathering been deemed a space to discuss matters of regional concern, but its historical results are very poor and forever tilted towards the developed Northern part of the hemisphere. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on June 1, 2022
The people want an inclusive Summit of the Americas
The summit convening in Los Angeles next week is yet another proof of the authoritarian and anti-democratic character of the elites that rule the United States. The exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the meeting from the outset confirms this. This is an extremely serious fact, which leads to other very serious exclusions as well. (more…)
photo: Bill Hackwell
Los Angeles on May 31 – The Los Angeles Police Department has refused to grant a permit for a legal mass march scheduled to coincide with the Summit of the Americas on Friday, June 10, 2022. Organizers for the People’s Summit for Democracy say that, “the LAPD conduct constitutes an illegal denial of constitutional rights for those engaged in first amendment protected activity.” They vow to demonstrate regardless on June 10. (more…)
By Susana Antón Rodríguez on May 31, 2022
Saratoga Hotel, photo: Bill Hackwell
After the unfortunate explosion that occurred at the Saratoga Hotel on May 6, not just a few of the surrounding buildings were also affected. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on May 29, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Empire denies its own existence. It does not exist as an empire but only as benevolence, with its mission to spread human rights and sustainable development across the world. However, that perspective means nothing in Havana nor in Caracas, where ‘human rights’ has come to mean regime change, (more…)
By Manuel Humberto Restrepo Domínguez on May 30, 2022.
Gustavo Petro embraces his vice candidate, Francia Márquez
More than 20 million people out of nearly 40 million eligible to vote went to the polls in Colombia on Sunday, in the most complex of all the elections of this XXI century, in which the democratic center of former president Uribe has continuously occupied the government palace and has come to control all public powers by co-optation or decisions with implicit corruption. (more…)
By David Brooks on May 27, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
The crushing avalanche of shocking news in the U.S. this week (like too many before it) leaves one at a loss for adjectives – and verbs, and well, words then – and in search of refuge. Racist hatred, the assault on civil and human rights, and a fear cultivated by right-wing forces draws blood across the country. (more…)