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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 […]

Suspected assassins of Haitian President Moïse trained by U.S., linked to pro-coup oligarchy

July 11, 2021 Dan Cohen

As the investigation into Moïse’s murder unfolds, the U.S. is laying the groundwork to deploy troops into Haiti for the fourth time in 106 years, at the request of a figure it has spent decades […]

Haitian movements caution against foreign intervention following Moïse’s assassination

July 10, 2021 Peoples Dispatch

In the early hours of July 7, unidentified armed men attacked the house of Haiti’s de-facto president Jovenel Moïse and shot him dead. In the attack, his wife was also severely injured and according to reports […]

There’s a dirty tricks campaign underway in Peru to deny the left’s presidential victory

July 9, 2021 José Carlos Llerena Robles and Vijay Prashad

Half an hour’s taxi ride from the House of Pizarro, the presidential palace in Lima, Peru, is a high-security prison at the Callao naval base. The prison was built to hold leaders of Sendero Luminoso […]

Haiti: After Delmas 32 massacre, a demonstration, accusations, and a riposte

July 8, 2021 Kim Ives

As we go to press, we have learned that an apparent squad of mercenaries, arriving in nine brand-new Nissan Patrol vehicles, arrived at the home of Haiti’s de facto president Jovenel Moïse in the mountain […]