By Adolfo Pérez Esquivel on March 11, 2022
Iraq has never recovered from the US wars, occupation and sanctions. photo: Bill Hackwell
It is necessary to make a calm analysis of those responsible for the war between Ukraine and Russia and the silence and refusal to find a diplomatic solution to avoid war on the part of the US and the EU. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on March 10, 2022
illustration: Greg Groesch/Washington Times
On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced to the world a meeting held over the weekend with a small negotiating team sent by the White House According to official sources from both countries, the main topics of the mini-summit were energy and prisoners. It is the first high-level exchange in 20 years (more…)
By José Manuel Blanco Díaz on March 9, 2022
Francisco “Pacho” Santos
It never ceases to amaze how the closer a puppet government gets to the empire the more offended they are when a new playbook appears. They always over rate their importance and lose sight of the well known quote from Henry Kissinger, “The US has no permanent friends or enemies only interests” -edit (more…)
By Katu Arkonada on March 8, 2021
Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Photo: Roberto García / La Jornada.
During the last few months, Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been criticizing the United States for interfering in the internal affairs of the country, due to the financing it grants to several “civil society” groups, but with an active participation in the political and media battering against López Obrador’s government. (more…)
By Angel Guerra Cabrera on March 10, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky is of Jewish origin. So, repeats Fox News, CNN, PBS and, of course, other hegemonic media, ensuring us that it is absurd to claim that there are Nazis and neo-Nazi influence in his government. However, the facts show that not only Zelensky, but also the regime he represents, has a neo-Nazi background, rooted in the history of the Ukrainian (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on March 8, 2022
Freedom of speech has become something like the 11th commandment of the Bible and it is interpreted by everyone in their own way, as everybody does with the holy text. Big media “defends” tooth and nail that freedom of speech is inviolable and must be safeguarded at all times. However, like good preachers, they interpret this principle in their own way, not to say as they please. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 8, 2022 from Havana
Sierra Maestras, photo: Bill Hackwell
On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co men’s shirt factory in New York City, U.S. The company’s owner did not expect a major fire to spread through the building after locking the exit door, leaving more than 100 women employees inside. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on March 7, 2021
Anti war protest in San Francisco. Photo: David Bacon
Speaking before the UN on March 2, Venezuelan Ambassador Samuel Moncada identified the breach of the Minsk agreements, with the encouragement of the US, as the precursor of the present crisis in Ukraine. Nicaragua, too, noted before the UN that “NATO has insisted on ignoring the [Minsk] agreements.” (more…)