By: David Brooks on June 17, 2022
Jan. 6 attack on US Congress, photo: Tyler Merbler/creative commons
At the same time that Joe Biden and his team were acting as supreme judges of democracies at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, at the other end of the country, in Washington, Congressman Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Select Committee on January 6 (more…)
By Elson Concepción Pérez on June 18, 2021
down with blockade, photo: Yaimi Ravelo
Five years ago today, Donald Trump dusted off the rhetoric of the Cold War and intensified the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba compiling the unusual figure of 243 measures. (more…)
By Rick Sterling on June 17, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Last week (June 8-10) there were two summits in Los Angeles, California: the Summit of the Americas hosted by the US State Department and the Peoples Summit hosted by US and international activist organizations. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on June 16, 2022
Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez, a hope for Colombia
Colombia’s Presidential Elections runoff is just hours away, while tensions and uncertainty are growing fast in the South American country. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 16, 2022, from Havana
photo: Irene Perez
Every third Sunday of June, Cuban families celebrate Father’s Day, a tradition we inherited from the United States in 1938. But this Sunday will be different. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on June 16, 2021
Workers Summit of the Americas, photo: Roger Harris
Valentín, the man next to us in line as we made our way across the international border, asked what we had been doing in Tijuana. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on June 16, 2022
general strike in Ecuador, photo: RTVE
The indefinite national strike against the savage neoliberal policies of President Guillermo Lasso called by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) together with other social organizations entered its third day yesterday. (more…)
June 13, 2022
Julian Assange’s wife’s video, posted in May, about how the U.S. is seeking revenge against the WikiLeaks founder, has been viewed more than a million times on Twitter. (more…)