Home » Racism and Self-Determination » PFLP calls for boycott of U.S. elections The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media issued the following statement on Nov. 4, 2024, at Resistance News Network. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls for a boycott of the Democratic and Republican parties and emphasizes…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Philadelphia: Robert Jones – say his name! Philadelphia In response to the killing of Robert Jones by an off-duty Philadelphia cop, family members and community activists held a protest rally at City Hall on Nov. 2. Robert Jones’ aunt Marcia decries police killing of her nephew at rally demanding…
In January, Salvadoran newspaper El Faro revealed that the country’s police have purchased three Israeli surveillance tools. Through the approximately $2.2 million contract, El Salavador’s police acquired the Wave Guard Tracer, from Wave Guard Technologies, designed to trace calls, text, and data, the GEOLOC system sold by an unknown Israeli firm, which intercepts signals between…
Ben Norton is an investigative journalist and the founder and editor of Multipolarista, a new independent anti-imperialist media outlet focusing on the rise and struggles of left-wing movements, governments, and oligarchs in Latin America through the lens of a burgeoning multipolar world. He lives in Nicaragua, has traveled across Latin America for some time and…
With less than a week to go, polling shows Democratic candidate Joe Biden to hold a 7.1 point average lead on incumbent president Donald Trump. Thus, thoughts of what his foreign policy would look like have come to the fore. Yesterday, The New York Times published a long piece discussing the 77-year-old’s plans for Latin America.…
With attention fixed on this week’s events in Bolivia, you would be excused for not realizing that much of the rest of the region has for weeks also been ablaze in the flames of protest. In Costa Rica, the neoliberal coalition government of Carlos Alverado attempted to force through a $1.75 billion loan from the International…
Election season is a difficult time to develop good policies towards Latin America, since both Democrats and Republicans cater to the small, but organized, conservative factions of the Latinx community in Florida, vying for their votes. But if Biden wins the White House, there is a chance to reverse the Trump administration policies that have…
While other continents have largely dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, much of Latin America is in meltdown, as cases soar, bodies pile up, and anger mounts. Its new wave of neoliberal leaders, mistrustful of collective action in any situation and extolling the virtues of individualism in a collective public health crisis, are making the problem…
Latin America appears to be on a precipice, about to lose what little control over the COVID-19 pandemic it had. Across the region, daily positive tests are rising rapidly. Chilean figures show infections have doubled since last week. Around 4,000 Peruvians have tested positive each day in the past week. Meanwhile, Argentina, where an official 12…
SANTIAGO, CHILE — A recently declassified CIA document has revealed that members of the intelligence agencies of France, the United Kingdom and West Germany discussed how to establish “an anti-subversive organization similar to [the CIA’s Operation] Condor” in their own countries. Described by the CIA as “a cooperative effort by the intelligence/security services of several…
WASHINGTON — NATO turned 70 years old on Thursday and, not unlike another figure in his 70’s who is in the news these days, a heavy dose of “creep” was involved. In the case of the former, however, it’s mission creep. At the birthday bash, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo echoed prevailing U.S. military…
The Guardian’s Tom Phillips’ article Venezuela Crisis Takes Deadly Toll on Buckling Health System (January 06, 2019) is more good news for US psychopaths, such as Trump, Bolton and Pompeo. Children are dying in Venezuela. Sanctions are working! Tom is becoming the Luke Harding of Venezuela. Luke…err, Tom blames all of Venezuela’s problems on President Nicolas Maduro. Tom has piled on, repeating…
In a series of previous articles, we presented the SouthCom plan to provoke wars between the Latin-American nations in order to destroy the structures of all the States in the Caribbean Basin [1]. Preparations for wars of this magnitude, intended to follow on from the conflicts in the “Greater Middle East” according to the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with allies in a tour of Latin America this week, in which he talked about stepping up US-led efforts against Venezuela. The Trump administration has been increasingly hostile towards the Caribbean nation, escalating sanctions and even threatening a military “option.” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is due to start his second…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » PFLP calls for boycott of U.S. elections The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media issued the following statement on Nov. 4, 2024, at Resistance News Network. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls for a boycott of the Democratic and Republican parties and emphasizes…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Philadelphia: Robert Jones – say his name! Philadelphia In response to the killing of Robert Jones by an off-duty Philadelphia cop, family members and community activists held a protest rally at City Hall on Nov. 2. Robert Jones’ aunt Marcia decries police killing of her nephew at rally demanding…
New York City Since 1992 the United Nations General Assembly has voted annually on the criminal U.S. blockade of socialist Cuba. Each year the vote has been overwhelming for ending this blockade that began in 1962 as a weapon wielded by U.S. imperialism to prevent other countries from trading vital goods and parts with this…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Palestinian feminists expose Democrats’ attempt to hijack reproductive justice in New York The following report was issued on the Palestinian Feminist Collective Facebook page on Oct. 23, 2024. Proposition 1 is a referendum appearing on the Nov. 5, 2024, ballot in New York to support adding abortion rights to…