Oswaldo Espinoza When Trump first won the election, thanks to the peculiarities of the U.S. electoral system, although formally it was a triumph of the Republican Party, in fact those who rose to power were the ultra-right extreme nationalists of the country, represented in first place by the white supremacist oligarchy, owner of industries and…
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Stephen Lewis: The NDP’s Liberal Imperialist
Yves Engler If the New Democratic Party wants to be part of the solution and not a barrier to creating a better foreign policy it needs to start telling the truth. Stephen Lewis is a liberal imperialist who largely ignores Canada’s contribution to African subjugation. Just before the election Svend Robinson for Burnaby North-Seymour published…
Egyptian Protests: A US-Fuelled “Arab Spring” Reboot
Tony Cartalucci When the West’s leading media organizations attempt to convince audiences they know nothing about where Mohammed Aly – a Spanish-based Egyptian protest leader – came from, the first thing one can be sure of is they are being lied to. Protests have begun to spread again in Egypt after nearly a decade of frustration…
“Gaza Fights For Freedom”Humanizes World’s Largest Concentration Camp
Miko Peled GAZA, OCCUPIED PALESTINE — In her new documentary film, Gaza Fights for Freedom, journalist Abby Martin places the Gaza Strip under a microscope for the viewers to see. The result is an excellent movie that is difficult to watch, and disturbing at times, precisely because it presents a true, realistic view of life…
Conversations with Fidel Castro: The Dangers of a Nuclear War
Fidel Castro Ruz and Prof Michel Chossudovsky First published by Global Research on November 13, 2010. Today is August 9, 2019. A second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 Introductory Note From October 12 to 15, 2010, I had extensive and detailed discussions with Fidel Castro in Havana, pertaining to the…
The Egyptian Parliament Supports the Libyan House of Representatives
On the proposal of the Egyptian National Committee, 70 members of the Libyan House of Representatives travelled to Cairo and were received by their Egyptian counterparts. In a statement, they affirmed, – their commitment to the integrity and sovereignty of Libya; – the Libyan House of Representatives is the only democratically elected body; – their…
Kuwait Clamps Down on the Muslim Brotherhood
Gamal Essam El-Din Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported on Monday that the Kuwaiti government had handed a “terrorist cell” comprising eight Egyptians linked to the Muslim Brotherhood to Egyptian authorities on Sunday evening. The move prompted Egyptian MPs and political analysts to speculate that Kuwait was on the cusp of designating the Muslim Brotherhood as…
Subversion in Nicaragua
REDVOLUCIÓN The documentary Subversion in Nicaragua: The Psychological War, is the first part of a plot that confirms that the coup d’état was planned several years ago, said by the same Lesther Alemán. The documentary presents the relationship between Felix Maradiaga, IEEPP, Migueliuth Sandoval (wife of Angel Gahona), members of right-wing NGOs and the M19.
Turkey Intervenes Militarily in Libya Through its Base in Tripoli
Abdullah Milad Al-Maqri Turkey declares that it is preparing to intervene in Libya under the pretext of protecting its citizens, specifically those in the Skhirat Council and its delegated government, begging for intervention on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood, Libyan militas and the February counter-revolutionary leaders who have made Turkey a center and a destination…
Libya: The LNA Will Presist
Reda Shaaban In the conference’s closing statement they urged the LNA to accelerate the liberation of the Libyan capital and eliminate crime and terrorism there. They condemned the alliance between the militias and the Chairman of the Libyan Presidency Council Fayez Al-Sarraj, whom they hold responsible for the deterioration of the situation in Libya. They…
Understanding the Current Crisis in Honduras
Ricardo Arturo Salgado Bonilla Viewing international media coverage of the current Honduran crisis shows that Americans have a limited perspective on something that is far more significant, perhaps because that something has always seemed light years away. Since 1980, Honduras rarely made headlines in mainstream media; in 1988 when people’s indignation led to the burning…
Revitalizing the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America is a Strategic Necessity
The Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) began its eighteenth session this Tuesday, May 21 in Havana. Foreign ministers from Venezuela, Bolivia, El Salvador and Cuba preside over the meeting of the integration bloc, which began at 3:00 p.m. in the Protocol Room of El Laguito,…
Venezuela: Tragic Incidents Claim Lives of 7 Presidential Honour Guards, General Jackson Silva Zapata
Military and police commission ambushed in Aragua The Bolivarian Military Aviation reported Saturday that a commission made up of military and police in the Venezuelan state of Aragua was ambushed, resulting in three dead and four injured. The incident occurred in the early hours of the morning, when a group of unknown persons were carrying…
Libya: Sabha Attack Reveals Al-Wefaq Government’s Link with Daesh
The Media center of the Karama Operations Room issued a statement in a televised speech about the terrorist attack, which targeted a training camp in the Libyan city of Sabha. “This morning on social media, the trumpets of the illegal government of accord, claimed responsibility for the criminal act carried out by remnants of the…
Jorge Arreaza: UN Press Conference on the Situation in Venezuela
Press conference by H.E. Mr. Jorge Arreaza, Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on the situation in Venezuela. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, today (25 Apr) said, it was “time to launch a campaign” to denounce “the devastating effects of the unilateral, illegal,…
Chávez the Radical XXI: Socialism Must be Created at the Grassroots Level
Tatuy Televisión Comunistaria “Who in their right mind would say that today Venezuela is a socialist country? No…we’d be fooling ourselves. We’re in a country that still lives in capitalism, it’s just that we’ve started on a path…” In 2009 Hugo Chávez met with grassroots community activists from Venezuela´s communal councils to discuss the construction…
Shadow Boxing for Empire: The Mueller Report
James Petras Introduction By the end of the Obama regime, the US had gone through seven wars and was in the process of losing five of them. Washington was facing global challenges to its dominant economic and political role from Russia and China. The US adopted a dual response: to pursue a policy of reconciliation…
Cuban Revolutionary Government Declaration on the Playa Girón Anniversary
Granma Today, April 17, is the anniversary of the launching of the United State’s 1961 military invasion at Playa Girón. (Bay of Pigs) The Cuban people’s resolute response in defense of the Revolution and socialism, within only 72 hours, produced the first military defeat of imperialism in America. Strangely, the date was chosen by the…