By Resumen Latinoamericano, North American Bureau on January 13, 2019
San Francisco audience, Photo: Bill Hackwell
Last night a full house at the Eric Quesada Center for Culture and Politics, in the Mission District of San Francisco, saw the first viewing in the U.S. of the new film by the Argentinian movie producer Maria Torrellas, Cuban Women in Revolution. (more…)
January 9, 2019
Photo: Mike Hudema
In yet another case of a stand-off between an oil pipeline and First Nation communities, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) violently evicted activists and arrested 14 to make way for a 670-km long pipeline. Indigenous activists have been fighting a long-drawn legal battle to prevent the pipeline, (more…)
January 6, 2019
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute canceled its prestigious human rights award for Angela Davis following outcry from “concerned individuals and organizations.” Davis, the Black revolutionary feminist icon, grew up in Birmingham under the Jim Crow apartheid regime. (more…)
By Noelle Hanrahan on January 11, 2019
Boxes of unknown material, stored for years, linked to the case, have been found!
In a stunning turn of events, on Dec. 28th six previously undisclosed boxes of files labeled Mumia were “discovered” in an abandoned furniture closet at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office on 3 South Penn Square. (more…)
By Carl Zimmer on January 4, 2019
Graphic: Dominio Cuba
In November 2016, American diplomats in Cuba complained of persistent, high-pitched sounds followed by a range of symptoms, including headaches, nausea and hearing loss. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 29, 2018
Photo: Bill Hackwell
Bathed in the soothing waters of the Blue Wave, such that it was, a new US Congress will be baptized on January 3rd. But what portends when “Mad Dog” Mattis, arch racist Jeff Sessions, and deep state spooks are canonized by self-identified liberals and leftists as bulwarks against fascism? (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on January 4, 2019
U.S. Sec. of State Pompeo, right, and Colombia’s President Duque meeting in Cartagena.
Right after the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Colombia and Brazil, that is described in this article, the so called Lima Group, or the neo liberal governments tutored by the interests of the U.S. met to condemn Venezuela (more…)
By Pavan Kulkarni on December 29, 2018
Photo: Jeff Abbott
Hours after the body of 7-year-old Jakelin Maquin was sent back to her village in Guatemala – from where, in hope for a better life, she had set out with her father to the United States weeks ago – another 8-year-old Guatemalan immigrant died in US custody on December 24. (more…)