On November 10, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales Ayma was removed from office.
Subjects Archives: Strategy
The 2019 UN vote against the U.S. blockade of Cuba
Trump’s Washington Remains Cornered
5 fast facts about the military coup in Bolivia and what you can do
Despite what the mainstream media headlines would have you believe, a coup is underway in Bolivia.
Media silent as Nobel Prize winning OPCW found “fixing” its own findings on Syria
Judging by the minimal impact of the news, there will likely be few consequences for those who suppressed information and misled the world, nor for those who called for war on the basis of it, their assertions proving, once again, disastrously wrong.
Bolivian President Evo Morales calls new presidential elections
Morales also called for calm and peace amid opposition protests and mobilizations, which have turned violent, against his victory in the Oct. 20 elections.
Bolivian Mayor, Patricia Arce, covered in paint, dragged through the streets by right wing fascists
Right wing protesters used as an excuse against the mayor, the death of two protesters in clashes that happened in another town. The woman was forced to resign on her knees after she was spray painted with red and subjected to hours of humiliation.
#Bernieblackout: The media isn’t even hiding its anti-Bernie bias anymore
From blackouts to cheap visual editing to outright hostility, the corporate media is pulling no punches in its effort to undermine Bernie Sanders and his egalitarian message.
World scientists’ warning of a climate emergency
Most public discussions on climate change are based on global surface temperature only, an inadequate measure to capture the breadth of human activities and the real dangers stemming from a warming planet. Policymakers and the public now urgently need access to a set of indicators that convey the effects of human activities.
Nazi-normalizing barf journalism: A brief history
The article was met with howls of protest across Twitter, but among the many apt responses, Bess Kalb’s description (11/25/17) captured my heart and gave me the single most useful phrase of the Trump era: “Nazi-normalizing barf journalism.”
Unpacking the super exploitation of black women
The situational systematic position of Black women, particularly in the US, has long been explained throughout the decades whether it has been called “triple oppression”, “double jeopardy”, or more notably, “intersectionality”.
Agony and death of neoliberalism in Latin America
After nearly half a century of pillage, outrage and crimes of all kinds against society and the environment, we witness the downfall of the ruling model promoted enthusiastically by the governments of advanced capitalist countries; institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank; and self-righteous intellectuals and establishment politicians.
Weaponizing Venezuela’s ex-ruling elite
When we think “immigrants in America” we rarely consider those who are privileged and weaponized in service of American Empire.
Flying above the clouds: the U.S. military and climate change
Climate change is occurring, highlighted by dramatically shifting weather patterns and ever more deadly storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires. And the evidence is overwhelming that it is driven by the steady increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide and methane, produced by our fossil fuel-based economic system.
Indigenous organizations propose a People’s Parliament
They seek to develop an economic model to prevent the application of IMF policies against the Ecuadoreans.
Bolivia on alert: Coup plot underway!
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounces destabilization campaign and violence.
The struggle to live in the present
In Capital Is Dead, Mckenzie Wark argues that the dominance of the capitalist class may be ending. In order to grasp this epochal transition, leftists must follow the young Marx—and abandon or adapt inherited modes of thought.
After 1,600 arrests, Extinction Rebellion fights for right to protest in UK
Facing a total ban on their protest in London, the activists are now embroiled in a struggle for their right to assemble.
Socialist feminism and the Communal State
Blanca Eekhout is the Minister of People’s Power for the Communes and Social Movements of Venezuela and a woman linked to revolutionary militancy long before President Hugo Chávez came to power, whose team she was part of.
The IMF does not fight financial fires but douses them with gasoline
On 13 October, Moreno had to promise to withdraw Decree 833. Pressure from the streets, from the United Nations, and from the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference forced him to the table, where a televised discussion was held. The indigenous leaders won the ‘debate’–they were much more prepared and far more humane than the president and his […]
Denmark’s Red-Greens: what answers when the climate crisis shakes up politics?
In 2007, Søndergaard was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the People’s Movement against the European Union (EU). After resigning this position in 2014, he won election to the Danish parliament in 2015 as an RGA MP for Gladsaxe: he was re-elected in the June 5 general election this year. Søndergaard spoke with Green […]
