By Julia Conley on March 16, 2019
Washington, D.C.Photo: @ChuckModi1/Twitter)
The protest in Washington DC was initiated by the ANSWER Coalition and endorsed by scores of progressive organizations and hundreds of grassroots leaders. Another large demonstration against US intervention in Venezuela took place on Saturday in Los Angeles and other cities across the United States. – edit (more…)
March 15, 2019
Chelsea Manning before grand jury hearing, Photo:Jahi Chikwendiu
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton in Alexandria, Va., expressed the government’s contempt for every woman, every trans person and every worker when he sent heroic military whistleblower Chelsea Manning back to jail on International Women’s Day. (more…)
By Kathy Kelly on March 11, 2019
Chelsea Manning, who bravely exposed atrocities committed by the U.S. military, is again imprisoned in a U.S. jail. On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2019, she was incarcerated in the Alexandria, VA (more…)
March 8, 2019
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Thursday condemning anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim discrimination, white supremacy and other forms of hate. (more…)
By Josefina Vidal, Cuban Ambassador to Canada on March 3, 2019
Josefina Vidal with Cuban Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Cabañas at the opening of the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC, July 20, 2015. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Link to the article the ambassador is responding to, https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-canada-cuba-1.5040857
My response to this CBC News tendentious and manipulative article: (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on March 6, 2019
The phrase is used over and over again by the government of the United States. “Strongest sanctions in history”—now against Iran, then against Venezuela. (more…)
By ZeroHedge.com on March 8, 2019
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, speaking on the border of Colombia and Venezuela. Photo: Fernando Vergara
During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Thursday, Republican chairman Marco Rubio condemned Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro as a “clear danger” and a “threat to the national security of the U.S.” (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on February 24, 2019
Picket Line for Oakland Teachers, Photo: Bill Hackwell
A created political farce played out with the frightening consequences for war against Venezuela resting in the balance on its border with Colombia this weekend, as the Trump Administration unsuccessfully tried to force the first of $20 million of unsolicited “humanitarian aid” into the country. (more…)