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U.S. censorship is increasingly official
The Biden administration made headlines last week as it moved to shut down the websites of 33 foreign media outlets, including ones based in Iran, Bahrain, Yemen and Palestine. Officials justified the decision by claiming the organizations were agents of “disinformation.”
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Dossier No. 42: Defending our sovereignty: U.S. military bases in Africa and the future of African unity
Neo-colonialism, Nkrumah noted, seeks to fragment Africa, weaken African state institutions, prevent African unity and sovereignty, and thereby insert its power to subordinate the aspirations of the continent for pan-African consolidation.
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Freedom Rider: The terrible origins of July 4th
The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.
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Revolutionizing the narrative: Building a principled Pakistani solidarity movement for Palestine
As part of the ongoing Nakba, Israel has once again unleashed its latest reign of terror on Palestine, in response to resistance by Palestinians against ethnic cleansing of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem (meant to eviscerate both Palestinian social and cultural life from the city).
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Digital Money Beyond Blockchain with Rohan Grey
In this episode, we’re joined by Rohan Grey (@rohangrey), President of the Modern Money Network, Director of the National Jobs for All Coalition, Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and JSD student at Cornell Law school. Our conversation is dedicated to Rohan’s current work on the political, economic, and cultural implications of money’s digital future.
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How is U.S. pop culture used against Venezuela?
How does U.S. hostility against Venezuela reflect itself in pop culture? We investigate in our latest video with Tatuy Tv.
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Hundreds of more unmarked graves discovered in residential school in Canada
The Cowessess First Nation said that at least 600 unmarked graves have been discovered on the grounds of what used to be the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.
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Geopolitics, profit, and poppies: how the CIA turned Afghanistan into a failed narco-state
The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites.
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The imminent coup in Peru
Legal maneuvers and delays, presented by the far-right, are pushing Peru closer to a coup with each passing day. It’s been 20 days since Peru’s June 6th election, and the authorities have not yet proclaimed the winner, Pedro Castillo.
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The thin blue lies behind crime wave hype
2021 as the city, and nation, begin to climb out of a pandemic that saw mass economic and social fallout—to say nothing of the lives lost. A historic, once-in-a-lifetime worldwide event destabilized the lives of countless people, and also led to an undeniable rise in shootings and homicide across the country.
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Don’t allow another U.S.-NATO Libya in the Horn of Africa
Paternalistic U.S. government political posturing toward Africa has a history of turning into fatal consequences for the masses of African peoples.
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Five Palestinians have been killed protesting illegal settlement — but ‘NYT’ covers ‘gentle stream’ in nearby kibbutz
The story is getting wide coverage in Palestine but not in the United States, though these lands are the supposed basis of a “Palestinian state”–and again, five Palestinians have been killed defending their rights.
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The case of Alex Saab – U.S. abduction of Venezuelan diplomat, a global challenge
The case involves the kidnapping of a diplomat by the world’s sole superpower locked in an unequal struggle to destroy the formerly prosperous, oil rich country of Venezuela.
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The world says no to the blockade of Cuba
In today’s historic UN General Assembly vote, 184 supported ending the U.S. blockade of Cuba and only the United States and Israel voted against
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The spirit of Carabobo will overcome the stench of Monroe. The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2021)
Two hundred years ago, on 24 June 1821, the forces of Simón Bolívar trounced the Spanish royalists at the Battle of Carabobo, a few hundred kilometres west of Caracas, Venezuela.
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Nicaragua’s Benedict Arnolds – political opposition as organized crime
After a period of accumulation of resources from 2011 onward, this extra-parliamentary opposition mounted the violent, U.S. designed coup attempt which lasted from April to July in 2018.
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Genocide in Brazil: SOS Yanomami
A report by the National Indigenous Foundation (Funai) has revealed that seven mining boats carrying firearms fired on indigenous people from the Palimiú community in Roraima on May 10, since then they have suffered SEVEN DAYS of consecutive attacks
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Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and Pandemic Prevention
COVID-19 and other zoonotic outbreaks such as Ebola are illustrative of the complex interactions between deforestation, biodiversity loss, ecosystem destruction, and human health and safety.
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U.S. blockade on Cuba causes record losses during coronavirus pandemic
CUBA’S economy lost more than $9 billion (£6.5bn) amid the coronavirus pandemic last year, due to the impact of the six decade-long U.S. blockade, government officials said on Thursday.
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From G7 to NATO meetings, imperialist powers turn more aggressive towards China
In both the crucial summits of global north nations, political leaders led by U.S. president Joe Biden, made sweeping and unsubstantiated charges against China.