Cindy Forster Self-proclaimed “interim president” Jeanine Añez, with a bible in hand on November 12, 2019. Jeanine Áñez is a woman president in a world with very few of them. She has exercised national power in Bolivia for eight months as the de-facto chief of state following the coup d’état against Indigenous president Evo Morales….
Category: UNITED NATIONS
Beware of Right Deviations That Have Emerged from the Three-Headed Crisis of US Imperialism
Danny Haiphong Libertarianism, like all capitalist ideologies, is bound with white supremacy. “Mass characterization of the partial ‘lockdowns’ in cities across the U.S. as ‘medical martial law’ deflected from the very real dangers of the U.S.-response to COVID-19.” Black Agenda Report places much of its attention on the Democratic Party, and for good reason. The…
The Simulation of British Justice: The Looting of Venezuelan Gold Had Been Decided Since 2018
Misión Verdad Protest in front of the Bank of England demanding the return of Venezuelan gold. Photo: Twitter Last week, the British justice system authorized the formal (and illegal) seizure of the Venezuelan state’s gold reserves deposited in the Bank of England. This is one billion dollars in gold bars (31 tons to be exact)…
The State and White Supremacy: The Inextricable Link
Ajamu Baraka The demand for “justice” by the pubic had the ironic result of re-legitimizing the state as an institution that could in fact render justice – but only an empowered people can establish a just order. “It is the settler state, and the corrupt colonial/capitalist system and the interests that it upholds, that must…
Pan-African and International Solidarity Will Break Sanctions
A-APRP Venezuelan protest against Imperialism: Photo Source: PSUV Facebook Not one European colonizer or settler-colonist brought land to the African continent. They stole it when they arrived. Consequently, it is not only logical, but just, that Africans take the land back. Because British settlers stole Zimbabwe territory and called it “Rhodesia” as a tribute to…
The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and Nicaragua: Science or Injustice?
Jorge Capelán You can’t promote human rights by accepting money from the empire that violates them massively and with impunity The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, EAAF1, created in the mid-1980s, is a very prestigious human rights organization in Argentina and Latin America2 for, among other things, having found the mortal remains of the founder of…
Nicaragua: Virtual Reality and Human Rights
Stephen Sefton Armed opposition activistsoutside Managua’s national Baseball Stadium in Managua, May 30th 2018. (still from a video shot by the opposition media outlet Radio Corporación included in the video “Un Plan para Sumar” by Juventud Presidente ) Ever since January 2007, the Western human rights industry has attacked Nicaragua’s Sandinista government for being undemocratic…
Guayana Esequiba, a Robbery, Various Courts, and Great Riches
Marco Teruggi The International Court of Justice in the Hague has begun the debate to decide whether it has jurisdiction to deal with the request of Guyana with respect to the territory known as Esequibo, which is disputed with Venezuela. What is behind this request? Why is it occurring now and what is does the…
Three Political Fronts Where Chavism Has Taken the Offensive in 2020
Misión Verdad The popular mobilization of women and men in civic-military union and the measures of social protection and promotion are the driving forces of Chavismo. Photo: Archives A crisis that is not only circumstantial or regional, but systemic and global, has been catalyzed by the pandemic that branches out from the geopolitical to the…
Indignation in Colombia Amid Spree of Assassinations
Tanya Wadhwa Peasant communities in Catatumbo denounced that Soldiers from the Colombian Army assassinated Salvador Jaime Duran on June 27. Photo: Colombia Informa The wave of assassinations and acts of sexual violence carried out by security forces and paramilitary groups against Colombian civilians in the past week has shaken the country A series of assassinations…
Fire, the Right to Breathe, and the Aesthetics of Protest in the Americas
Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes and Lara Sartorio Gonçalves It is a recurring debate. In 2011 journalist and activist Darcus Howe commented on the civil unrest that had happened in England in August of that year saying, “I don’t call it rioting. I call it an insurrection of the masses of the people. It is…
Covid 19: June “Revelations” and Confirmations
Marinella Correggia Rome’s famed Colosseum reopened on June 1. (AFP) For months we have witnessed the twists and turns, revelations and corrections around Covid-19. Great is the confusion under the sky. But we are not in Mao’s time, and therefore the situation is by no means a good one. Let’s connect some dots. 1. WHO:…
