Month: July 2023

Around the world

Africa is burning! DRC In environmental crisis

July 27, 2023 Jody Roumain
“No matter what they say now about highways and hospitals and penicillin, whatever was done in those colonies was not done for the natives. And the Belgians may not know this, but the natives do. […]
Cuba

Cuba marks Its National Day of Rebellion with the determination of Fidel

July 26, 2023 Alejandra Garcia
Havana, July 25 — Tomorrow, the eyes of Cuba are on Santiago. The leaders of the island, Santiago inhabitants, and Cubans from all over the country are in the city where it all began 70 […]
China

The U.S. ‘Act of War’ against China

July 26, 2023 Gary Wilson
The July 12 New York Times Magazine headlined: “‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China.” The report is about the October 2022 “export controls” against China: “Last October, the United States Bureau […]
In the U.S.

JoAnn Watson, beloved Detroit leader, dies

July 26, 2023 Cheryl LaBash
Cuba lost a good friend on July 10 when the Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson joined the ancestors. Watson originated the call “Doctors for Detroit” with the late Rev. Lucius Walker, founder of the Interreligious Foundation […]
Fight racism

A racist scab

July 26, 2023 Stephen Millies
Jason Aldean — whose music video “Try That in a Small Town” is an incitement to racist violence — was born in Macon, Georgia. Macon isn’t a small town, but it has a terrible racist […]
Around the world

Filipinos say NO! to dictatorship and economic misery

July 26, 2023 Stephen Millies
More than a hundred Filipinos and their allies rallied outside the Philippines consulate in New York City on July 23. They were protesting Philippines President Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr. The rally was one of many […]
Around the world

Solidarity in New York with the people of Peru

July 25, 2023 Stephen Millies
Twenty thousand people marched into Lima, the capital of Peru on July 19. They are demanding an end to the illegal regime that has crushed democracy and killed over 80 protesters. Thousands more have been […]
Around the world

Peru: Social movements demand resignation of unelected president

July 24, 2023 Al Mayadeen
The National Unitary Coordination Platform of Struggle (CNUL), composed of several Peruvian social movements, called for a new march on Saturday to demand the resignation of de facto President Dina Boluarte. The platform of social […]
Around the world

The next aggression that the U.S. is preparing against Venezuela

July 23, 2023 Mision Verdad
This year, the legislative arm in Washington has introduced three bills in the U.S. Congress against Venezuela: the Prohibition of Transactions and Leases with Venezuela’s Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime Act, the Venezuelan Human Rights “AFFECT” Act, […]
U.S. / NATO war

Storm clouds gathering over Black Sea

July 23, 2023 M.K. Bhadrakumar
The NATO Summit in Vilnius (July 11-12) signaled that there is absolutely no possibility of talks to settle the Ukraine war in the foreseeable future. The war will only intensify as the U.S. and its […]