Hugo Turner Internationalist 360° With special thanks to T.P. Wilkinson Introduction Few realize the role corporate lawyers have played in shaping the past 150 years of world history. Sullivan & Cromwell is perhaps the most infamous example. It oversaw the birth of the multinational corporation and launched coups in third world countries decades before there…
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Brian Willson Denounces Ongoing US Intervention in Nicaragua
Press Statement S. Brian Willson, Managua, Nicaragua September 1, 2020, 8:45am, in front of the US embassy, Managua, Nicaragua 33 rd anniversary of Brian’s surviving the US train assault in California Buenos dias. I am here today in front of the US Embassy in Managua to protest US intervention in Nicaragua and also to publicly…
Manifest Destiny as a Myth (Part I)
Pablo Jofre Leal American Progress (1872) by John Gast , an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Columbia, personification of the United States, is shown leading civilization westward with the American settlers, bringing light from east to west, stringing telegraph wire, holding a school textbook,[1] highlighting different stages of economic activity and…
Nicaragua Targeted for US Overthrow in 2020-21
S. Brian Willson Kevin K. Sullivan The USA failed State continues to seek destruction of NICARAGUA (among other nations such as Venezuela, Cuba, Syria and Iran, who refuse to obey US demands for neoliberal privatization that enrich the already rich. George Washington, who waged scorched Earth warfare Against the Iroquois Indigenous in the 1770s, 1780s,…
Anatomy of a Counter-Insurgency: Efforts to Undermine the George Floyd Uprising
Martin Schoots-McAlpine Police officers in Fayetteville ‘took a knee’ Introduction On May 25, 2020, police in Minneapolis Minnesota murdered George Floyd in cold blood. Responding to allegations of counterfeit money, police arrested Floyd, with one officer kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes, ultimately suffocating him. The killing was captured on video and quickly…
Fascists, With Help from the US, Are Trying to Take Control of Latin America
Popular Resistance Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed William Camacaro, a Venezuelan activist living in New York City who is active with the Solidarity Committee with Venezuela NYC and organizes food sovereignty tours to Venezuela, on the eve of the December 3 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) meeting in Colombia….
Macri and the US Involvement in the Bolivian Coup Starting to Emerge
Stella Calloni On November 18, which is a holiday in Argentina, thousands of people occupied the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires against the coup d’état in Bolivia and in solidarity with the Chilean people, paying tribute to the victims and the resistance of the people, while evidence and condemnation continue to emerge about the…
The Eagle of An Unalterable Nature
Jorge Arreaza Montserrat Since its founding, Venezuela has been a country of solidarity, with the conscience of belonging to something greater, an immense nation, a power in the making that, had it consolidated itself legally, economically, and politically, it would have modified the “universal equilibrium”, the balance of power in international relations. Venezuela’s only military…
Different Shades of Black: The Anatomy of the Far Right in the European Parliament
Ellen Rivera and Masha P. Davis Protesters of right-wing and far-right Flemish associations take part in a protest against Marrakesh Migration Pact in Brussels, Belgium on Dec. 16, 2018. [Credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutter-stock.com] [Of all the European elections, the one scheduled for May 23-26, 2019 that will decide the composition of the 9th European…
Allen Dulles and the Birth of the CIA
Hugo Turner Dedicated to the Memory of William Blum With Special Thanks to Doug Valentine Allen Dulles embodied the dark forces that have shaped the past hundred years or so of world history. He was the monster at the heart of the American century. His crimes were so great they echo into our own time…
The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but those dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. –…
A Labyrinth of Deception: Hillary Clinton and the Honduran Coup
By Daniel Beckman At 4 a.m. on June 28, 2009, a battalion of 150 masked Honduran soldiers under orders from Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez initiated a shootout with the Presidential Honor Guard. Honduras’s President Manuel Zelaya was then dragged in his pajamas onto a plane at gunpoint and left on the tarmac in San José,…
