January 20, 2025
After a half-century of unjust incarceration, Leonard Peltier is finally going home!
“It’s finally over–I’m going home,” said Peltier in response to the news. “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.” (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcon on January 20, 2025 from Havana
“As you move up the wealth/income ladder, you get a little more influence on policy. When you get to the top, which is maybe a tenth of one percent, people essentially get what they want, which is to say they determine policy. So the proper term for that is not democracy; it’s plutocracy.”
Noam Chomsky in Bonn, Germany, at the DW Global Media Forum, August 15, 2013. (more…)
By Elizabeth Naranjo on January 18, 2024
there was a drastic drop in tourism after the SSOT was applied to Cuba. photo: Juan Pablo Carreras
“It could be said that the list has been laid bare as a political instrument of certain U.S. groups, whose fundamental interest is to disable the Cuban government and impose a cost to the interest, of the international community and the vast majority of the United States, (more…)
January 17, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
On Thursday, ministers, deputy ministers, and heads of delegations from 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries met in Mexico City to develop a joint strategy in response to the threats of mass deportations by Donald Trump. (more…)
By Atilio Borón on January 17, 2025
Protest against Trump in Oakland CA, January 20, 2017, photo: Bill Hackwell
On Monday, January 20, 2025, Donald John Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. There is a curious parallel that I cannot overlook: Trump, like Che, was born on June 14. In the tycoon’s case, 1946; Che in 1928. Of course, that’s where the similarities end. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on January 17, 2025
Edmundo Gonzalez
Venezuela’s right-wing opposition leader Edmundo González, self-proclaimed president-elect, has announced that he will attend the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington next Monday. (more…)
By Mueve AL on January 16, 2025
“Let’s go with everyone!” photo: Bill Hackwell
Gender equality is a right and a principle, and achieving it has been a priority for developing nations in recent decades since it is the only possible way to achieve structural transformations and build equitable, just and peaceful societies. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 16, 2025
Cybertrash without control and without borders. The Meta conglomerate, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, has announced that it will end its data verification program, which had been in place since 2016. Its founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, opportunistically accommodates the Trump era and his Machiavellian advisor Elon Musk, the owner of X and troll of the free flow of misinformation. (more…)