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Communist Party of Swaziland continues campaign to boycott ‘farcical’ elections despite arrests and torture
In Swaziland, only individuals approved by the local chiefs of King Mswati III can contest elections, and the parliament cannot hold the monarchy accountable. Pro-democracy activists have been calling for a boycott of the elections which are scheduled for August.
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Neruda was assassinated with a biological weapon, nephew denounces
Rodolfo Reyes, a lawyer and nephew of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, charged on Tuesday that the reports from two laboratories in Canada and Denmark confirm the assassination of the Nobel Prizewinner for Literature with a biological weapon.
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Media ignore Seymour Hersh bombshell report of U.S. destroying Nord Stream II
It has now been one week since Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report claiming that the Biden administration deliberately blew up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline without Germany’s consent or even knowledge–an operation which began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Chávez built a new economy: A conversation with Tony Boza (Part I)
An economist and National Assembly member reflects on the economic transformations that Chávez promoted.
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Biden to Syrian earthquake victims: DROP DEAD
Brutally politicizing humanitarian aid, Biden assists Turkey but refuses to mobilize aid and rescue workers to save thousands in northern Syria because of U.S. vendetta against Bashar al-Assad government.
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U.S. Lawfare and the destabilization of Latin America
Brazil-based reporter and author Brian Mier outlines the strategy of lawfare and how it has been used in Latin America, particularly in the Lava Jato investigation.
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SchoolStudents in Alabama walk out after told to limit Black history programme
Students said they were ordered to leave out major historical moments, including slavery and civil rights movement, from the programme scheduled for February 22 at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa.
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Guatemala blocks leftist Indigenous leader from presidential race, in ‘electoral coup’
Guatemala’s notoriously corrupt right-wing government banned Indigenous leader Thelma Cabrera and her leftist Movement for the Liberation of the Peoples (MLP) party from running in the presidential election. International observers warn this is an “electoral coup”.
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Resistance is continual in Nicaragua
Roger McKenzie talks to U.S. writer Dan Kovalik about why the people of Nicaragua need our support in their battle to determine their own future
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Sanctions imposed by U.S. and allies hamper relief and rescue work in earthquake-devastated Syria
Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday.
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Former Israeli PM Bennett says U.S. ‘blocked’ his attempts at a Russia-Ukraine peace deal
Bennett says the U.S. and its Western allies decided to ‘keep striking Putin’ and not negotiate.
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Diplomatic cables prove top U.S. Officials knew they were crossing Russia’s red lines on NATO expansion
U.S. officials were told that pushing for Ukrainian membership in NATO would not only increase the chance of Russian meddling in the country but also risked destabilising the divided nation.
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Neo-compradors: the leftist foot soldiers of Imperialism
A review of James Petras “NGOs: in the service of imperialism”
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On the media of ‘Russiagate’ and related fake stories
Last week Matt Taibbi, with access to Twitter’s internal papers, debunked the fake Hamilton 68 propaganda dashboard that was used to create many stories about alleged Russian disinformation.
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Contextualizing the shooting in Neve Yaakov
Media and political leaders have misrepresented Khairy Alqam’s attack in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov that killed seven Israeli settlers by ignoring the context in which it took place.
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Writing about a joy that invades Jenin: The Fifth Newsletter (2023)
Israel calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality.
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France brought to a standstill over attack on pensions
Workers walked out on the second day of industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron’s scheme to raise the French retirement age by two years to 64.
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Top U.S. Official hails Nord Stream 2 blast
The Biden administration is very happy to know the pipeline is “a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea,” Victoria Nuland said
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In the face of censorship, Indian students organize screenings of BBC documentary on PM Modi
A recent BBC documentary on Indian PM Narendra Modi, which has been censored by the government, is being screened by students’ organizations in various parts of the country.
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“Assassination of Thulani Maseko has killed prospects of peaceful struggle in Swaziland”
Activist and lawyer Thulani Maseko, who was at the forefront of Swaziland’s struggle for democracy, was gunned down hours after King Mswati’s threatening speech to pro-democracy activists. PUDEMO President Mlungisi Makhanya talks about Thulani’s struggle and what his killing means for the country.