Latin America
Brazil Supreme Court Minister Rules to Protect Press Freedom for Glenn...
By Trevor Timm
August 8 2019
In a crucial victory for press freedom in Brazil, Minister Gilmar Mendes, a member of Brazil’s Supreme Court, has barred...
Brazil’s toxic pesticides ‘affecting people all over the world’ through agricultural...
30 Jul, 2019
Brazil’s embrace of highly toxic pesticides – the government has approved 262 so far this year and loosened regulations on what is...
US Seizes Cargo Ship Trying to Deliver Food to Venezuela
August 7, 2019
The US continues to escalate its anti-Venezuela measures this week, having announced Monday night that sanctions have grown to an economic embargo,...
Driving Venezuela Towards Famine
By Daniel Larison
July 13, 2019
Warnings of famine are increasing in Venezuela, and U.S. sanctions are responsible for driving the country over the edge:
In...
Torturing and Exterminating Assange to terrorize journalists around the globe
US wants to 'make an example' of Assange in jail, UN expert claims
By Nick Miller
July 28, 2019
The United States government has promised that Julian...
“The Brink of Political Revolution”: Puerto Rican Protests Continue Amid Political...
July 30, 2019
Protests are continuing in Puerto Rico days after mass demonstrations forced Governor Ricardo Rosselló to step down. It marked the first time...
US and Iran Stuck on Negotiation Ground Zero
By Pepe Escobar
July 27, 2019
All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes when we have the President of the United States (POTUS)...
The dialectics of economic warfare
A paper delivered to the Moscow academic economic forum (MAEF)
by Dr. Leo Gabriel
from the Institute for Intercultural Research and Cooperation in Vienna, Austria
It...
Venezuela – The Bachelet Lie
By Peter Koenig
8 July 2019
When reading the Bachelet Report on Human Rights, following HR High Commissioner’s 3 day visit to Venezuela, published on Venezuela’s...
Marta Harnecker, The Fighter
By Farooque Chowdhury
18 June 2019
A relentless fighter, comrade Marta Harnecker (1937 – 2019) made valuable contributions in the areas of theory related to revolution...