Consortium News: As the U.S. declares a new government in Venezuela, we look back at how the Reagan administration promoted human rights violations in Guatemala, including genocide inflicted on Indian villages, as the late Robert Parry reported on Feb. 21, 2013. Robert Parry Soon after taking office in 1981, President Ronald Reagan’s national security team…
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Somali War: A Continuing Result of United States Foreign Policy
Abayomi Azikiwe Pentagon bombing operations against the Horn of Africa state of Somalia have killed numerous people over the last several weeks under the guise of the United States “war on terrorism.” On 30 November 2018 the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported that airstrikes were launched on al-Shabaab positions in Lebede killing nine people. (Reuters,…
Venezuela and the US Agree to Hold Negotiations to Establish an Interests Office in Each Capital
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela considers it appropriate to inform public opinion regarding its sovereign decision to break off relations with the Government of the United States of America, announced by the Constitutional President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro Moros, on 23 January. In this regard, it is reported that yesterday, January 25, the effective…
Racism: A Systemic Problem in the Canadian Military
Yves Engler Anti-blackness is a significant problem in the Canadian Forces. For decades it was explicit and the institution evidently remains structurally racist. Last month it was revealed that a white reservist who repeatedly called black soldiers “n…ers” would not face any disciplinary measures. The stated reason was that the individual, whose father is a…
Burkina Faso: Entire Cabinet and PM Resign from Office
With no reason given yet, Paul Kaba Thieba, Burkina Faso‘s prime minister and the entire cabinet of ministers have resigned from office after pressure due to a rising wave of violence and kidnappings in the West African country. The decision was made public by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore in a televised statement to the…
Five Eyes: US Used NZ Spies to Spy on Third Countries, Including France; US Army Ready for Unrest
Suzie Dawson I’ve spent six years alternately begging major NZ journalists to investigate state-sponsored spying on activists including me, and, out of sheer necessity, reporting extensively on it myself from within the vacuum created by their inaction. So it is somewhat bemusing to now observe the belated unfolding of what ex-Member of Parliament and Greenpeace…
Haitians’ TPS: Trump is Also Erecting an Administrative Wall
Alexandra Panaguli The destruction wrought by Hurricane Matthew on Haiti’s southern peninsula in October 2016 is one of the reasons why Haitians’ TPS should not be revoked, plaintiffs argued. PART I 104 lamps illuminate the beautifully renovated federal courtroom of Judge William Kuntz in the U.S. Eastern District courthouse on Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza. Computer screens…
Amnesty International’s Troubling Collaboration with UK & US Intelligence
Alexander Rubinstein Peter Benenson, left, with George Ivan Smith at a 1966 Nordic Africa Institute Seminar. Uppsala-Bild | Creative Commons LONDON — Amnesty International, the eminent human-rights non-governmental organization, is widely known for its advocacy in that realm. It produces reports critical of the Israeli occupation in Palestine and the Saudi-led war on Yemen. But…
Crisis and Resolution: A Plan for Haiti’s Future
Haiti Action Committee Haiti Action Committee is honored to circulate this statement from Fanmi Lavalas, the people’s party in Haiti. Fanmi Lavalas issued the statement in solidarity with the massive upsurge of protest against the corrupt regime of Haiti’s current president, Jovenel Moise. The statement comes in the wake of violent state repression, including the…
The Militarization of the Southern Border is a Long-Standing American Tradition
Greg Grandin Crosses on the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Sonora, commemorate migrants who have died while trying to cross into the United States (Jonathan McIntosh/Flickr) The point was less to actually build “the wall” than to constantly announce the building of the wall. “We started building our wall. I’m so proud of it,” Donald…
The Art of War: The Great Game of Military Bases in Africa
Manlio Dinucci Internationalist 360° Italian soldiers on a mission to Djibouti have donated some sewing machines to the humanitarian organization that assists refugees in this small country of the Horn of Africa, strategically located on the fundamental trade route between Asia and Europe at the mouth of the Red Sea across from Yemen. An aerial…
Despite Denials, Documents Reveal US Training UAE Forces for Combat in Yemen
Nick Turse When the Pentagon announced last November that it was ceasing aerial refueling of Saudi-led coalition aircraft operating in Yemen, the move appeared to be a major step back from U.S. support for the war there. But newly obtained documents reveal that the United States has also been training coalition military personnel from the…
