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NicaNotes: The experience of Nicaragua in managing the Covid pandemic
Nicaragua, the third poorest country in Latin America, has a population of approximately 6.7 million people but has the most extensive and well-equipped public health system in Central America.
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‘Apartheid’ designation ignored as Israel kills children in Gaza AGAIN
Israel’s recent bombing of the Gaza Strip from May 9–13 killed 33 Palestinians, including seven children. FAIR looked at coverage of these attacks from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, and didn’t find a single reference to Israel as an apartheid state, despite this being the consensus in the human rights community.
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How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions
Under current climate change policies, billions will face life-threatening heat. But a global network of heat officers are tackling the problem in their own cities.
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Graffiti writers are painting over a pro-police “street art” campaign backed by a tech billionaire in San Francisco
A “street art” campaign backed by Welsh tech billionaire and venture capitalist Michael Moritz is being targeted by graffiti artists in San Francisco, California.
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Malcolm X’s revolutionary trip to Africa
African Stream tells the story of Malcolm X’s political transformation that led to his assassination a few months after his return.
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Cuba: Biden’s moral debt
Atilio A. Boron: “I write these lines motivated by the pain caused to so many of us by the untimely physical demise of the Cuban intellectual, journalist, computer warrior and revolutionary Iroel Sánchez Espinosa.”
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‘Beautiful Dreams’: The 5-year-old Palestinian kindergartener who died of fear
Mohammed is still grieving, and he cannot help thinking about what life would have been if Tamim was still alive, disassembling and reassembling his toys, his head filled with beautiful dreams.
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‘The court’s position is, no one can tell them what to do’
CounterSpin interview with Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court corruption
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Judge reinstates ‘zero bail’ policy in Los Angeles
A preliminary injunction issued this week forbids officials from forcing people charged with low-level offenses to remain in jail because they cannot afford bail.
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The ongoing Nakba means ongoing resistance
The “ongoing Nakba” means that the Zionist drive to expel and eliminate the Palestinian people continues to this day. That is why Palestinian resistance to Zionism will remain as long as Zionism exists.
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China’s peace in West Asia
The Chinese-brokered agreement emerged in retaliation to the U.S. as the latter continues to wage a series of provocations aimed at destabilizing China’s domestic stability with regard to Taiwan.
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75 years after its foundation, WHO struggles for sovereignty
This year marked the 75th anniversary of the WHO. But as the UN agency approaches its yearly assembly in Geneva, it is still struggling to secure adequate resources for functioning independently of the private sector and pressures from high income countries.
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Durham report reveals the real threat to “democracy” – The FBI weaponized by Democrat Party affiliated elites
Six years and millions of dollars later, the “Durham report” released on May 15th confirmed once again what a few of us had the nerve to argue before all of the reports and stories that subsequently emerged—that “Russiagate” was the most massive fraud ever perpetrated on the U.S. public by a section of the capitalist rulers and represented a maturing of a form of U.S. neofascism unique to this historical moment.
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Western silence needs to be confronted: Ilan Pappe on the Nakba, Gaza and inclusive solidarity
Once more the Gaza Strip is bombarded from the air, land, and sea, and, once more, Israeli inhumanity and cruelty are met with Western silence.
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Woody Guthrie prize given to punk rock group that supports escalation of Ukraine war and overthrow of Russian government
As a proponent of peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, Woody Guthrie would likely be rolling over in his grave if he knew how his heirs betrayed his name.
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Ian Angus – “The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism”
In his latest book, Ian Angus answers a question that apologists for the capitalist system would like to pretend does not exist.
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Fighting fascism in feminism
I was first introduced to the power of far-right ideologies within feminism through the work of so-called feminists who were dead set on criminalizing sex work, even if it cost women their lives. Back in 2004, I was new to sex work organizing, spurred by the massacre of street-based sex workers on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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Venezuela: Food is not a commodity, it’s a human right: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty (Part I)
An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.
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Nakba at 75
The Nakba, “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which includes the expulsion and subsequent displacement of Palestinians, the destruction of Palestinian towns and villages, and other attempts to eradicate the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland in the territory that became the State of Israel.
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What’s behind the attack against Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement?
The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), Brazil’s largest social organization and a major force for land reform, is under attack from the country’s conservative forces in the parliament and the mass media.