Hector Bernardo Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced that new presidential elections will be held on May 3, 2020. In the current conditions, the elections only seem to have the intention to disguise the de facto government as a democratic one. Its visible face is the self-proclaimed president Jeanine Áñez, the neofascist leader Luis Fernando…
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Beware Imperialist Gaslighting: Assassination is Not Legal
Mark P. Fancher The U.S. government has been in the business of killing foreign leaders for a long time – but it’s still a crime. “Trump has boasted of the Soleimani assassination and the corporate media has been his biggest cheerleader.” Although analysts will endlessly debate the legality of the recent assassination of Iran’s Qasem…
How Fake ‘American Exceptionalism’ Hides Shame, Creates Stupidity & Dangerous Imperialism
S. Brian Willson Premise The culture and nation-state of the United States of America are founded on the egregious and forceful dispossession of others. You might even call it an earlier version of fascism – institutional dehumanization for private profit. A myth, or grand lie, was created that we are an exceptional people, effectively pre-empting…
Bolivia: The Resources of the Dictatorship
Atilio A. Boron The very serious situation in Bolivia has multiple facets, each one more aberrant. They all have a common denominator: the systematic violation of human rights, public freedoms and individual rights and guarantees. These are the foreseeable results of any dictatorial regime, and without doubt the government that has taken over Bolivia today…
Stella Calloni: The New Counterinsurgency War is Not Operation Condor II. It is a Project of Recolonization.
Hector Bernardo Contexto spoke with Stella Calloni about the current situation in Bolivia, the assassination attempts against President Morales and the re-edition of her deep investigation into the relationship between the United States and the Bolivian coup plotters. What is the current situation in Bolivia? The de facto government in Bolivia is presumably trying to…
Stella Calloni: “We are Under a Counterinsurgency War”
Lautaro Ortiz “In Bolivia there is no longer any security to hold free elections,” says Calloni. Image Daphne Gentinetta The writer and journalist, author of this essential research, analyzes the situation in Bolivia, in the context of the interference of the United States in the region. The civic, police and military coup d’état perpetrated last…
Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Join Hong Kong Protests
Morgan Artyukhina Prominent Ukrainian neo-Nazi figures have been spotted in the Hong Kong protests just weeks after hosting an “academy of street protest” in Kiev. Leaders of far-right Ukrainian groups that rose to prominence in the 2014 coup d’etat they helped orchestrate, including the Azov Battalion and Right Sektor, have recently traveled to Hong Kong…
Hong Kong Protests Unmasked
It’s a ‘color revolution’ As Hong Kong’s anti-government movement continues to rage, RT looks into what sparked the unrest, the dire social inequality problems that fuel it, and how forces in Washington exploited this public discontent for their own ends. Having personally witnessed brutal clashes and spoken to key figures on both sides of the…
Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate Known as the CIA: An Interview with Douglas Valentine
Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith Douglas Valentine is an investigator and author with a rare and tenacious approach toward research. His writing results in uniquely incisive and revealing books on the dark side of U.S. intelligence activities and the National Security State. His latest book, The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and…
Bolivia Returned to Being a Country Governed by the U.S., Neo-Nazis and Narcos
Misión Verdad The last days of the coup in Bolivia are revealing, thanks in large part to the mediocrity of its executors, the tailoring of the suit made to cover the interests of foreign actors. The design suggests that the regime change was inspired by political patterns of previous decades. One would have to go…
Bolivia: The Transition to the “Final Solution”
Rafael Bautista The deception of a coup with the facade of “transition” describes, neatly, a heap of political and intellectual delusions, especially on the left; whose apology of the government of “transition” is defining its own historical suicide. The opposition left (to the MAS government) has not only opted for an opportunist protagonism but also,…
The U.S. Launches Itself in the Most Violent Way Imaginable to Definitively Seize Bolivia
Maya interviewed Argentine sociologist Atilio Boron, one of the most internationally renowned political analysts today, so that in just three questions he can give us his vision of the crisis Bolivia is going through. How would you characterize the coup d’état in Bolivia? Without a doubt, the coup d’état in Bolivia is part of the…
