Luis Britto García Despite its formidable arms expenditure, which alone exceeds that of all the other countries on the planet combined, the United States has lost its military hegemony. The United States opened the century with the illusion that it was initiating a “New American Century”, according to the manifesto of the think tank “New…
Ecuador: A Ballot Between Arauz and Lasso and New Threats
Marco Teruggi The National Electoral Council proclaimed the election results. The Comptroller’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office will conduct audits of the voting, which correísmo denounced as an “interference in the electoral process” by other State institutions. The Ecuadorian electoral process is marked by uncertainties, disputes and threats. This Sunday at 3 am, two…
Protests Continue in Haiti Against the Dictatorship and Imperialism
Peoples Dispatch A protester on February 21, 2021 holds up a sign that reads “The Haitian People Can’t Breath. Down with the Core Group”. Photo: Twitter Protests continue in Haiti against the dictatorship of Jovenel Moïse and the neo-colonialist, imperialist forces propping him up. Tens of thousands took to the streets in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince,…
Fight Like Malcolm X!
Struggle – La Lucha Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem on Feb. 21, 1965, through a plot by the FBI and New York Police Department. Today, we remember Malcolm as a militant community organizer, revolutionary internationalist, and fighter for Black liberation by any means necessary: “We are living in an era…
US Uses Guyana to Harass Venezuela
Andrés Gaudin The Venezuelan government has pledged to defend the country’s claim over the Essequibo Strip. (Presidential Press) Oil is always the great desire and corporations are mapping out the terrain for Biden. Once the direct military option has been ruled out, they insert a wedge in an old border dispute while destabilizing actions persist….
The Geopolitical Struggle Has Been Globalized: Unipolarism-Multipolarism
Jorge Rachid “We must not just change our collar: we must stop being dogs”. – Arturo Jauretche Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the hegemonism of the USA, self-declared victor of the Cold War, the world has been living a situation of tension and conflict, in which new actors emerged who began to…
Texas Tragedy Wasn’t Inevitable
Stephen Millies People line up for water at a park in Houston on Feb. 18. Many Texas households are without running water due to frozen and burst pipes. Millions of people in Texas are living in misery after a winter storm hit the state. For days they have been without heat, light and water. The…
Trump’s Cursed Legacy: The Advance of Far Right Fascism in the New World Order of Savage Capitalism
Baltazar GarzónDemonstrators gather near a burning barricade during clashes with police following a protest condemning the arrest of rap singer Pablo Hasél in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Faced with the political, economic and social catastrophe of the savage capitalist system that governs the destinies of our unfortunate planet and before the vertiginous development…
US Masterplan for Guyana…….and the Caribbean
Arturo Rosales Historical Background – Summary Between 1803 and 1959 the US expanded its territory from 13 states to 50. This was achieved by purchasing large tracts of land such as the Louisiana purchase from France in 1803 and the purchase of Alaska from czarist Russia in 1867.Other expansions came through conquest such as the…
Latin America Finds its Own Answers to Produce COVID-19 Vaccines and Save Lives
Rubén Sierra In a world harmed by the severe COVID-19 pandemic, the access to vaccines is being distorted by the rules of the open market and the deep gap between rich and poor nations. As the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), doctor Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, recently said, “the world is on the brink…
Venezuela Launches Mass Vaccinations against COVID-19
Peoples Dispatch Doctor Glendy Rivero received the first shot of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine on February 18 and became the first Venezuelan to be vaccinated in the country. Photo: Nicolás Maduro/Twitter Venezuela launched its immunization campaign against COVID-19 on February 18, five days after the first batch of 100,000 doses of the Sputnik V…
As Macron Courts the Far-Right, France Launches Crackdown on “Islamo-Leftism”
Alan Macleod France’s Minister for Higher Education, Frederique Vidal, has sparked a nationwide controversy with her announcement that the government is attempting to stop the spread of what she called “Islamo-leftism” in universities. Part of the process, she said, would be for the state to decide “what is academic research and what is activism and…
