Editorial Comment: The following article was published in February, 2019. Libya remains in turmoil today as NATO nations compete for the spoils of war and the people languish as hopes for healing, peace and justice are unrealized. A.V. Julian Lahai Samboma Men carry coffins during the burial of more than two dozen people after an…
Category: GENOCIDE
Guatemala: Girls Must not be Touched, Must not be Raped, Must not be Killed
Carolina Vazquez Araya Photo: Bill Hackwell In Guatemala, a strategy of terror is being carried out on the bodies of girls, boys, and adolescents. The country is passing through one of its darkest periods in its recent history. Helpless and unaided against the power of crime syndicates, the population is paralyzed when confronted with the…
Viral Topography of Neoliberalism: Transnational Laboratories and the Commodification of Life
Jorge Elbaum Image: “Whoever Finds the Vaccine Must Share It”: Strengthening Human Rights and Transparency Around Covid-19 Vaccines | Human Rights Watch After a year of pandemic and more than two million deaths, the prevailing global political model and the transnational laboratories exhibit their evident inability to produce and distribute vaccines that could prevent the…
Gender Violence is Policy of the State
Ilka Oliva Corado Women performing “Un violador en tu camino,” or “A Rapist in Your Path,” in a demonstration against gender-based violence in front of the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile. In societies with neoliberal governments, gender violence, mass poverty and exploitation are all policy of the State. Before the armed forces we have religion…
Crime against Humanity: The Girls of Paraguay
Stella Calloni The appalling silence of the Paraguayan government on the disappearance of 14-year-old Carmen Elizabeth Oviedo Villalba, daughter of political prisoners Carmen Villaba and Alcides Oviedo, after the Paraguayan army’s Joint Task Force (JTF) murdered Lilian Mariana and Maria Carmen Villalba last September, both 11 years old, both from the same family, who lived…
Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Jailed for Massacring Iraqi Civilians
Jake Johnson Former Blackwater security guard Nick Slatten and his lawyer Thomas Connolly leave an arraignment hearing at U.S. district court on January 6, 2009 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) “While U.S. Army contractors convicted of massacring civilians in Iraq are pardoned, the man who exposed such crimes against humanity, Julian Assange, rots…
World Economic Forum Tabs Mass Murderers to Promote The Great Reset
Steve Lalla It’s difficult to keep a straight face when reading about the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) post-COVID-19 plans, ambitiously labelled as The Great Reset. Who can trust the WEF’s intentions when their agenda employs such thoroughly discredited poster boys as Iván Duque, Paul Kagame and Benjamin Netanyahu? The Switzerland-based WEF, composed of a thousand…
The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads
Andrew Quilty A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be America’s Exit Strategy From Its Longest War The buzz of a drone at night was the first sign of trouble. Next came the roar of a larger, low-flying aircraft, which alerted residents of the Afghan village of Omar Khail that soldiers were nearby. Men in…
Stealing Mineral Wealth for Corporate Interests: U.S. Bankrolled Mass Murder of Millions in Central Africa
Jeremy KuzmarovWilliam J. Perry, the U.S. Defense Secretary from 1994 to 1997, speaks with Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame. Perry helped secure the delivery of weapons to Kagame that were used to attack Congo and exterminate Hutu refugees in eastern Congo. [Source: therwandan.com] A new book reveals how U.S. Presidents of both parties unleashed the CIA…
Top-Secret Testimonies Implicate Rwanda’s President in War Crimes
Judi Rever and Benedict Moran Previously suppressed evidence shows that dictator Paul Kagame’s forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Hutus – the other side of the Rwandan genocide. For years, UN investigators secretly compiled evidence that implicated Rwandan President Paul Kagame and other high-level officials in mass killings before, during and after the 1994 Rwandan…
Feminism with a Socialist and Internationalist Heart
Interview with Claudia Korol From November 25 to December 10, days of activism for non-violence against women and girls are celebrated in Cuba. In this context, Granma spoke with Claudia Korol, Argentine journalist, popular educator, feminist, Marxist and anti-colonialist, who is involved in Feminists of Abya Yala, and is coordinator and author of valuable books…
Colombia: Truth and Reparation in the Face of Ethnic Genocide and Afro-Ethnicity
Piedad Córdoba Four years after the signing of the Final Peace Agreement between the Colombian State and the FARC-EP, non-compliance and perfidy on the part of the National Government have predominated, leading to the continuation of the armed conflict and even its intensification in various territories of the country. The definitive overcoming of the war…
