By Atilio Boron on March 28, 2022
creation of NATO
Before being elected President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first NATO Commander. In February 1951, a few months after taking office he wrote the following text: “If in 10 years all the American troops stationed in Europe for the purpose of securing national defense have not returned to the United States, then this project, NATO, will have failed.” (more…)
By Maribel Acosta Damas on March 28, 2022
Tarara, children of Chernobyl. Photo Liborio Noval
By way of introduction…
One day in 2011, Peruvian visual artist Sonia Cunliffe visited the beach resort of Tarará. She noticed bald children bathing on the beach. She asked who they were and they answered her: the Chernobyl children. She was shocked, but at that time she knew nothing more. Then in 2015, by chance we met and she asked me if I knew about that story. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 27, 2022
Miami caravan against the blockade
The world is living in uncertain times. The Western powers, led by the United States, insist on escalating tensions in Eastern Europe over an regional conflict that should have nothing to do with them. Unbridled hatred is spreading through social networks as never before, towards Russia, Russians, and anyone who is not on Washington’s side in defending its “world order”. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on March 27, 2022
unions march against IMF loan in Buenos Aires, photo: Bill Hackwell
Sometimes we make decisions only thinking about the immediate situation while forgetting the repercussions they may have in the next 5 or 10 years. We think that it will all just work itself out. We tend to be optimistic at best, but the reality is that we are inconsistent. (more…)
March 24, 2022
1999 protest US led war of Yugoslavia. photo: Bill Hackwell
Exactly 23 years ago, NATO countries, without UN Security Council authorization, ordered their troops to bomb the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as part of an offensive operation named Allied Force, under the pretext of a supposed humanitarian intervention to “prevent genocide” of Kosovar Albanians. (more…)
By Silvia Ribeiro on March 26, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Food prices rising rapidly, apparently as a consequence of the war in Russia and Ukraine is having serious impact for many populations, exposing the global vulnerability in which the industrial agri-food system dominated by transnational corporations places us. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on March 25, 2022.
Roldolfo Walsh
46 years after the most atrocious civil-military-corporate-religious and media coup our country has ever endured, it is essential to remember all the resistances that defied the dictatorship during that period. From the most heroic to the most anonymous, carried out in neighborhoods, factories, schools, by countless fighters who never gave up in the face of adversity. Among these experiences, journalism also had its place, and the case of the Clandestine News Agency (ANCLA) is fundamental when taking that into account. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on March 24, 2022
Last Sunday’s legislative elections in Colombia showed the strength of the leftist coalition Historic Pact. With nearly 2.7 million votes, the group led by Gustavo Petro emerged as the most voted political force in the country, which turned into a gain of 16 seats in the Senate and 25 in Congress. (more…)