Natasha Lennard In front of a small crowd of activists and media, city workers remove a statue of J. Marion Sims, a surgeon and medical pioneer in the field of gynecology, from its perch on the edge of Central Park on April 17, 2018 in Harlem, New York. Forced sterilization of poor women of color…
Category: NORTH AMERICA
In Bolivia, Washington Has Replicated Past Fascist Horrors
Rainer Shea The campaigns from imperialist propaganda operatives to brand Bolivia’s coup regime as some sort of example of progressive governance, or as in any way superior to the Morales government on human rights, have been pure smoke and mirrors. Installed after a weeks-long campaign of racist violence, the regime of the Christian fundamentalist Jeanine…
Caribbean Gangsters: New Crime Plot by Guaidó’s Fake Government Revealed
Misión VerdadThe scandals and corruption, blackmail and extortion by the “fake government” of Juan Guaidó have undermined his image. Photo: AP The Miami-based anti-Chávez journalist Patricia Poleo has once again fired on the imposed “leader” of the Venezuelan opposition, Juan Guaidó, this time revealing an extortion plot against businessmen at the expense of his artificial…
As US COVID Death Toll Hits 200,000, Trump Calls for “Herd Immunity”
Andre Damon On Tuesday, the day that the United States reached the threshold of 200,000 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump openly defended the US government’s de facto policy of “herd immunity,” that is, allowing the virus to spread without restraint. “You’ll develop herd,” Trump told a televised town hall event, before apparently…
Organization for the Victory of the People (OVP) Statement on Pompeo’s Visit to Guyana
PRESS RELEASE September 16, 2020 Organization for the Victory of the People (OVP) opposes US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo’s visit to Guyana at this time because we believe that the primary purpose of his visit is to persuade the PPP regime to allow Guyana to be used as a base to attack our western…
As Venezuela Foils CIA “Terror Plot” Pompeo Tours Its Neighbors to Talk Regime Change
Alan Macleod Venezuela’s government has announced it has foiled a potential terror attack, arresting a former CIA operative while he was on a stakeout near the country’s largest oil refining facility. Matthew John Heath was arrested with three other Venezuelans outside the Amuay and Cardon refineries in Falcon state in the west of the country,…
Coups and Neo-Coups in Latin America
Juan Paz y Miño Cepeda Ecuadorian historian Juan Paz y Miño Cepeda looks at revamped regime change efforts in Venezuela and elsewhere. I recently received an article entitled “Coups and neo-coups in Latin America. Violence and political conflict in the twenty-first century” by Carlos Alberto Figueroa Ibarra, a long-time friend and academic at the University…
Whistleblower Reports High Number of Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Facility
José Olivares, John Washington An overview of Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. Photo: Google Maps A whistleblower complaint filed this week with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General alleges that high rates of hysterectomies — sometimes without what the complaint called “proper informed consent” — have been performed on…
The Difference Between the US and China’s Response to COVID-19 is Staggering
Vijay Prashad, John Ross A medical worker guides people at a nucleic acid testing site in Tongzhou District of Beijing, capital of China, June 22, 2020. China contained the spread of COVID-19 to other provinces through mass testing, early lockdown measures and an overall focus on saving people’s lives. Photo: Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin. In Washington Post…
Bolivia: Rupture or Consolidation of the Coup?
Katu Arkonada With five weeks remaining until Bolivia’s October 18 general elections, the panorama is becoming more and more complex. The polarization between MAS and the coup plotters is sharpening, while Carlos Mesa is trying to keep a low profile that will help him win votes from a right wing that is disenchanted with the…
Schools Reopen: Teachers Fight for Their Lives, Their Students, and the Future of Public Education
Sarah Jaffe The starting place for the unions, noted Stacy Davis Gates, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, is that the push to reopen schools as if they could wish the pandemic away, whether it was coming from President Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos or from Chicago’s mayor Lori Lightfoot, “was…
On the Imminent Visit of US Secretary of State: “Guyana Must Stay Out of Venezuelan Politics”
It is being reported that the US Secretary of State is scheduled to visit Guyana between September 17th and 18th 2020. While in the normal course of events such a visit would be welcomed, the timing and circumstances of this visit by Mr. Mike Pompeo are ominous. Rumours of an ‘October surprise’ in the form…
