By David Bacon on January 29, 2025
Civil rights icon Rev. Phil Lawson speaks against deportations with people of faith hold a vigil outside the Richmond CA Detention Center, where immigrants are incarcerated before being deported, not long after the election of Donald Trump as he promised to deport millions of people if elected in 2016. Lawson passed on January 28 at 92. Photo: David Bacon
In 1950, Nevada Democratic Senator Pat McCarran said he wanted to save the United States from communism and “Jewish interests.” His solution was passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, known as the McCarran Walter Act (MWA), and its complement, the Internal Security Act of 1950 (also known, confusingly, as the McCarran Act). (more…)
By Yilena Hector Rodriguez and Claudia Fonseca Sosa on January 29, 2025 from Havana
Ignacio Ramonet, Photo: Enrique González (Enro)
“We are living in a post-media society. Witnessing the end of the masses,” said the journalist and doctor of social sciences Ignacio Ramomet, speaking this Wednesday at the 6th International Conference for World Balance, which is meeting this week at the Palacio de las Convenciones. (more…)
By Leidys Maria Labrador Herrera on January 30, 2025
US prison in Guantanamo, photo: Bill Hackwell
“In an act of brutality, the new US government has announced the imprisonment at the Naval Base in Guantánamo, located in illegally occupied Cuban territory, of thousands of migrants that it is forcibly expelling, who will be placed alongside the well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention.” (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 30, 2025
JFK
The danger of trusting the CIA, said Brazilian politician Leonel Brizola, is that as the years go by, the agency opens its files and “everything rotten comes to light”. The prediction that new skeletons will come out of the closet of US politics has been on the rise since Donald Trump decided to publish the still classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on January 29, 2025 from Havana
Graciela Ramirez at the 6th International conference for the Balance of the World. photos: Yaimi Ravelo
Today at the first day of sessions of the 6th International Conference for the Balance of the World entitled “With all and for the good of all,” the solidarity movements with Cuba denounced the unpunished crimes of imperialism against the peoples of Cuba and Palestine. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris on January 25, 2025
Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela
The New York Times, the so-called US “newspaper of record,” carried an opinion piece by one of its columnists promoting “military intervention” to promote “democracy” by overturning the democratically elected government of Venezuela. (more…)
January 27, 2025
Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia
The racist discourse promoted by the new government of the United States against migrants in his country found a breaking point yesterday in the decision of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, not to allow the arrival of flights with expelled people because they were not being treated with the dignity that a human being deserves. (more…)
By Syara Salado Massip on January 28, 2025 from Havana
All photos: Victor Villalba Gutiérrez
Every January 27, the traditional Torch March is held in Cuba to pay tribute to our National Hero José Martí. Thousands of young people and people in general gather on the steps of the University of Havana from where they set off, holding torches, walking along San Lázaro, Infanta and Espada streets, until they reach the Fragua Martiana, the place where Martí was subjected to forced labor during his political imprisonment. (more…)