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The demise of USAID: Few regrets in Latin America

February 15, 2025 John Perry and Roger D. Harris
“Take your money with you,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, “it’s poison.” USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion annually in Latin America, […]
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USAID: the Empire reinvents itself

February 15, 2025 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
Elon Musk, sworn in as Secretary for Government Efficiency, thundered: “The time has come for USAID to die.” His words resonated like the harbinger of an imminent storm. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump, on his first […]
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Rubens Paiva: Presente! How ‘I’m Still Here’ challenges Brazil’s resurgent far-right

February 13, 2025 Catarina Damasceno
The commercial and critical success of the 2024 film “I’m Still Here” represents a triumph for the Brazilian people. Directed by Walter Salles, the movie is based on the 2015 book of the same name […]
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Trump has a special hatred for Africa and people of African descent

February 8, 2025 Stephen Millies
Within the first three weeks of his second presidential administration, Trump’s crimes have included: Fascist round-ups of immigrant workers, with hundreds being deported in military aircraft while being shackled. Trump is setting up a concentration […]
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Trump and Musk ‘close’ USAID

February 5, 2025 Juana Carrasco Martín
Havana, Feb. 4 — The “gibberish” was formed in Washington. The couple of the moment, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, closed USAID — the United States Agency for International Development, — one of the arms that […]
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Argentina: Unprecedented anti-fascist, anti-racist march against Milei

February 4, 2025 Euge Murillo
Feb. 2 — “Thank you for so much beauty to fight cruelty”, was a phrase that slipped in, almost a whisper, very early on when the Plaza del Congreso began to fill up for an […]
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U.S. once again threatening Mexico with military strikes

February 4, 2025 Drago Bosnic
Despite even allowing U.S. law enforcement to operate in the country, thus undermining its own sovereignty, Mexico is still faced with the prospect of being attacked. If the new administration is already conducting a thorough […]
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Statement on outlawing of the Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)

February 4, 2025 Struggle - La Lucha
Since seizing power in our homeland Syria on December 8, 2024, as a result of a military attack fully supported by colonial powers that are members of the aggressive NATO, the dark clique has begun […]
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Open source vs. closed doors: How China’s DeepSeek beat U.S. AI monopolies

January 26, 2025 Gary Wilson
China’s DeepSeek AI has just dropped a bombshell in the tech world. While U.S. tech giants like OpenAI have been building expensive, closed-source AI models, DeepSeek has released an open-source AI that matches or outperforms […]
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A new military strategy of French neocolonialism in Africa: Reorganizing under the cover retreat

January 25, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni
In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military intervention—announced, “We have decided on the coordinated and organized withdrawal of French forces” […]