Around the world – Page 55 – Struggle

Peru: Héctor Béjar’s resignation, ‘The President and the government put themselves hostage to the military’

August 21, 2021 Carlos Aznárez

The government of Pedro Castillo has suffered its first defeat, by yielding to the pressures of the right-wing coup and the most reactionary sectors of the Armed Forces. The imposition of the resignation of Foreign […]

Afghan resistance ends U.S. occupation

August 21, 2021 Scott Scheffer

The long and brutal U.S. imperialist war in Afghanistan is coming to a chaotic, inglorious end. For 20 years, the people of Afghanistan resisted the U.S. occupation and today the puppet government and its phony […]

Washington spent more than $2 trillion on a war that it knew could not be won

August 19, 2021 Vijay Prashad

On August 15, the Taliban arrived in Kabul. The Taliban’s leadership entered the presidential palace, which Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had vacated when he fled into exile abroad hours before. The country’s borders shut down and Kabul’s […]

Haiti needs aid not intervention!

August 18, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

Stop the deportations! Over 1,400 people were killed by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti Aug. 14. Thousands more may have died. At least 30,000 families were made homeless. This misery was compounded by […]

Sports sovereignty in Puerto Rico

August 8, 2021 Berta Joubert-Ceci

Translated by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews. A few days ago, athlete Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won a gold medal for PR in the 100-meter hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics. You may wonder how, being a colony of […]

Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated

August 7, 2021 Stephen Millies

Barack Obama visited Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. Obama’s visit to the Japanese city revived the question of whether killing hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima […]

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Why is the U.S. government targeting Nicaragua?

July 31, 2021 Jill Clark-Gollub

After learning that outright military invasions, which cost the lives of U.S. soldiers, are unpopular at home, the strategists of U.S. empire now prefer regime change through hybrid warfare: manipulation of mainstream and social media […]

Afghanistan Military Suspected Taliban Insurgent

U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan doesn’t mean peace

July 18, 2021 Scott Scheffer

In April, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. war in Afghanistan would finally end after 20 years of horrible imperialist destruction. Initially the idea was that the troops would pack up shop by Sept. […]

U.S. crimes in Guatemala: The hypocrisy of Biden-Harris anti-migrant policy

July 11, 2021 John Parker

The Biden administration began the month of June with further evidence of its policy of keeping to the Trump-era status quo, this time with immigration/migration policy. Vice President Kamala Harris was sent to Guatemala and […]

U.S. hands off Haiti! Reparations not intervention!

July 11, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

Following the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, the people of Haiti don’t need foreign troops invading their country. The United Nations “peacekeeping” force that occupied Haiti from 2004 to 2017 was responsible […]