On June 1, 1964, Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro denounced, for the first time, the United States’ biological war against Cuba. Granma International interviews two leading figures in the struggle against hemorrhagic dengue which had been purposefully introduced. Alejandra García | internet@granma.cu It was a nightmare. Emergency rooms were flooded with children, and then adults,…
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The Little Known Africa
Although the mainstream media focuses daily on negative news stories in Africa, there is another reality to the continent, which today, May 25, is celebrating its day. Darcy Borrero Batista | informacion@granma.cu Several African countries have recently established free or compulsory primary education. Although the mainstream media focuses daily on negative news stories in Africa,…
Britain’s Collusion with Terror
Britain is not the enemy of terrorism – it stokes the flames of sectarianism and facilitates death squads. Crimes of Britain When Britain’s collusion with death squads across the Middle East and Africa is mentioned it falls on deaf ears. The only time you will hear of Britain’s open collaboration with these forces are when…
Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya Statement on the Massacre at Barak Beach
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION We shall test human patience with fear, hunger, poverty. Who, afflicted by calamity, said: “We are to God and to Him we will return those who have prayers from their Lord and mercy, and those who are guided. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya received the news of the heinous massacre…
Karen Spellman and the SNCC Legacy Project – Black Power Chronicle
When did the “Civil Rights Movement” morph into the “Black Power Era” — or is that a false dichotomy. The best testimony on that question comes from those who participated in the process – people like Karen Spellman, an early activist with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and currently co-director of the Black Power Chronicles….
Somalia War Intensifies While Horn of Africa Nation on Verge of Famine
United States Navy Seal killed in military operation outside Mogadishu signals deeper Pentagon involvement By AbayomiAzikiwe Internationalist 360° On May 5 the role of Pentagon forces inside the Horn of Africa nations of Somalia was further exposed when Navy Seal chief petty officer Kyle Miliken reportedly died in a gun battle with al-Shabaab fighters. This…
Conference for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases Demand Guantánamo’s Return to Cuba
The demand that the U.S. return territory illegally occupied by the Guantánamo Naval Base was reiterated by 248 participants from 32 countries attending the Fifth International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases. Jorge Luis Merencio Cautín|merencio@granma.cu May 10, 2017 GUANTÁNAMO.— Support for the Cuban people in their demand that the United…
War and Empire: The American Way of Life
By Paul Atwood A few months ago I received a message from a professor at the Khomeini Institute for Education and Research in Tehran, Iran, informing me that my 2010 book “War and Empire: The American Way of Life” (London, Pluto Press) had been translated into Farsi. He requested that I write an Introduction for…
Empire Files: Privacy, Control & the Darknet
Published on May 5, 2017 Out of the periphery of most online users, there’s a vast, hidden space used by people who want to remain anonymous, which filmmaker Alex Winter explores in his documentary Deep Web. The film focuses on the Silk Road, a black market hosted on the Darknet using bitcoin cryptocurrency, and the…
US Doesn’t Need Ethiopia in its War on Terror in the Horn of Africa
By Alemayehu Mariam Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited the Middle East and Africa to “reaffirm key U.S. military alliances” and engage with strategic partners.” Mattis only visited the tiny nation of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa where the U.S. maintains its largest military base. Ethiopia was conspicuously absent from the…
Neo-Nazi Network Embedded in the Highest Levels of the German Military
Peter Schwarz Growing extremism, and a Wehrmacht fetish, riddle the ranks of the Bundeswehr. The arrest of a German army officer suspected of plotting the assassination of leftist politicians and high-ranking state officials has exposed the operations of neo-Nazi forces at the highest levels of the German military (Bundeswehr). The information that has emerged thus…
The Trump Pro-ISIS Alliance in Indonesia
Trump’s Indonesian Allies in Bed With ISIS-Backed FPI Militia Seek to Oust Elected President Jokowi By Allan Nairn Introduction by Peter Dale Scott Introduction The following important essay, by the respected and reliable journalist Allan Nairn, reports what Indonesian generals and others have told him of an army-backed movement to overthrow Indonesia’s civilian-led moderate constitutional…
Che Guevara 50 Years After His Assassination
By James Cockcroft 2017 is the 50th anniversary of the CIA-ordered assassination of Che Guevara. In light of a recent upsurge in denunciations of Che and the Cuban Revolution, it is important to separate fact from fiction. Here are five important points to take into account, all in historical context, drawn from countless reliable sources, especially from…
Haiti: The Real Crimes of Guy Philippe
Selections from “Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti” (Part 1 of 3) By Jeb Sprague Guy Philippe, a Cap-Haïtien police chief, was the most charismatic and educated of the dissident police chiefs who formed a cabal trying to foment a coup against former President René Préval. Credit: Carlos Villalon Former paramilitary leader Guy…
Hamas Rebranded: New Manifesto – Same Alliances
Editorial Comment: While Hamas make the dubious claim that they are no longer part of the Muslim Brotherhood, their alliance with that organization remains intact. A.V. Read the Manifesto: General Principles and Policies Remaining Faithful to the Revolutionary Struggle Against Imperialism Ahram The Islamic militant Hamas on Monday unveiled what had been billed as a…
May Day in Cuba
International Workers Day marked by protests across the globe International news staff | informacion@granma.cu This May Day, the police in Istanbul arrested dozens of demonstrators who attempted to challenge a ban on International Workers Day commemorations in the city’s emblematic Taksim Square, closed for the third consecutive May 1. Likewise Greek trade unions observed the…
The Existential Question of Whom to Trust
By Robert Parry The looming threat of World War III, a potential extermination event for the human species, is made more likely because the world’s public can’t count on supposedly objective experts to ascertain and evaluate facts. Instead, careerism is the order of the day among journalists, intelligence analysts and international monitors – meaning that…
US Imperialism’s Cultural War Against Revolutionary Cuba
Since Cuba’s revolutionary triumph, the island has faced both the impacts of the colonizing wave of global hegemonic industry and specific cultural warfare projects designed, financed and implemented by U.S. imperialism, its agencies and international allies, with the aim of subverting Cuban socialism. Elier Ramírez Cañedo | internet@granma.cu The United States has vast experience in…
America’s Imperial War Drive and the Contemporary African Crisis
From the Cameroon and Somalia to South Africa and Zimbabwe neo-colonialism remains a major impediment to genuine development and stability. Author’s Note: This address was delivered at the Detroit branch of Workers World Party public forum held on Sat. April 22, 2017. The event examined various anti-imperialist struggles taking placed around the world from the…
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance: The Anti-Colonial Struggle in Canada
Urooba Jamal The crowd’s sporadic banter wound down to hushed murmurs, then to pin drop silence. A woman dressed in a feather crown and armed with a round drum had stepped into the middle of the group. Eying the crowd, she declared emphatically that this land was the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples…
How US Race Laws Inspired Nazism
By David Swanson James Q. Whitman’s new book is called Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law. It is understated and overdocumented, difficult to argue with. No doubt some will try. In cartoonish U.S. historical understanding, the United States is, was, and ever shall be a force for good,…
Through the ‘War on Terror’ Looking Glass
As our wars escalate in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, as U.S. warships bear down on Korea, and as our leaders issue new threats against Iran, Russia and China, we may have less time to save ourselves, each other and our world than we have previously assumed. By Nicolas J S Davies The Airwars.org U.K.-based monitoring group reports that…
When Daesh is Defeated: Who Will Fill the Intellectual Vacuum in the Arab World?
Editorial Comment: The suppression of academics is the first phase in the process of cultural genocide. Following empire’s implacable campaigns of assassination, political persecution and ideological cleansing, leading intellectuals and visionaries in the MENA region have been marginalized and largely silenced. The result is tragic and immediate, but the negative repercussions will extend well into the…
Justice Deferred: The 15 Year Anniversary of the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission Verdict
Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion “The international community, led by the US, is effectively complicit in the ongoing violation of fundamental international law by Ethiopia.” With the backing of the U.S., Ethiopia has “continued to militarily occupy large swathes of Eritrean territory and sustain a policy of unremitting aggression and hostility toward Eritrea.” Washington promotes turmoil, imposing…
The Ruthless “Mother of All Bombs”
The United States launched a bomb containing more than eight tons of high-powered explosives on Afghanistan. The use of this ruthless “Mother Of All Bombs” signals the continuity of a policy that has only sown death and destruction across countries that, rather than bombs, need food, medicine and social development. Elson Concepción Pérez | internet@granma.cu…
The FBI Likes Your Water Protectors Post Too
Tara Houska Indian Country Media Network A young water protector stands before a line of armed police vehicles near the Standing Rock reservation in Cannonball, North Dakota. The fight against Dakota Access is not over. Court battles continue, divestment efforts have pulled billions from the company, and resistance all over Turtle Island is ongoing. But…
PFLP Comrade Khaled Barakat: Palestinians are Entering a New Era
PFLP In an interview with the PFLP website, Palestinian leftist writer Comrade Khaled Barakat spoke about the ongoing threats to the people of the region and the world posed by the United States. “The blatant war crimes of U.S. imperialism are only escalating, as evidenced by the dropping of the so-called ‘mother of all bombs’…
President Kim Il Sung’s Immortal Contributions to African Liberation
Immortal Contributions to the African Countries’ Struggle for National Liberation and Building a New Society Pan-African News Wire Africa, which, under colonial rule, had been a supply base of fuel and other materials, a place where backwardness and poverty had prevailed, has now become a continent developing on the trajectory of independence, a continent achieving…
US Expands, Escalates War Against Somalia
By Abayomi Azikiwe Internationalist 360° United States President Donald Trump has pledged to intensify the war against the people of Somalia which has gone on for decades. This latest manifestation of Washington’s intervention in the oil-rich Horn of Africa state came in the form of an executive order granting the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) greater…
United States Imperialist Militarism from Afghanistan, the DPRK, to Syria and Beyond
Major Threats to World Peace: MOAB, tomahawks and the danger of nuclear war By Abayomi Azikiwe Internationalist 360° Afghanistan has gained lead story status in the western corporate and government-sponsored media outlets again for the wrong reasons. This Central Asia state has been at war since the late 1970s when the United States under the…
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