Analysis and testimonies

- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy / Latin America
- 13 Oct 2018
- Atilio Boron
Brazil: A Monster is Born

Bolsonaro has promised Donald Trump to authorize the installation of a US military base in Alcántara, on the strategic promontory of the Brazilian Northeast, which is the closest point between the […]
- Analysis and testimonies / North-South relations / United States
- 09 Oct 2018
- Ajamu Baraka
Syria and the S-300s: Re-Centering the People in the Global Struggles for Power

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world [….] No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 09 Oct 2018
- Carlos Aznarez
Brazil: Again the Alternative is Between “Socialism or Barbarism”

The most feared, but foreseeable at the same time, has already happened. Jair Bolsonaro almost won the presidency of Brazil in the first round and thanks to the consequent vote […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 06 Oct 2018
- Zoe PC
As polls near, people’s movements mobilize to beat fascism and Bolsonaro

Millions of Brazilians will vote on October 7 in the first presidential elections since the 2016 coup which deposed Dilma Rousseff. On October 4, the day before the last […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 04 Oct 2018
- Vijay Prashad
US meddling: is Venezuela next?

Reports that U.S. officials and Venezuelan commanders had conversations about regime change in Venezuela point to the latest instance in a series of covert attempts at destabilising that country. […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America / Media Watch / Robert Charvin's column
- 02 Oct 2018
- Julie Lamin
Nicaragua: Amnesty has got it wrong

As a member of Amnesty International I am outraged by the complete misinformation of your Urgent Action regarding Nicaragua.Having spent time in the country since the 1980s I have a […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Middle East
- 02 Oct 2018
- Ali Abunimah
Palestinian-French lawyer Salah Hamouri freed by Israel

Salah Hamouri, a Palestinian-French human rights defender and lawyer, has been freed from an Israeli prison after more than a year of detention without charge or trial. On Saturday […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 01 Oct 2018
- CETIM
The rights of the Mapuche people : criminalization of leaders and corporate projects

In the area of human rights, for more than twenty years Chile has been experiencing an increase in mobilizations of indigenous peoples for the respect of their rights to land, […]
- Analysis and testimonies
- 01 Oct 2018
- Jacques Pauwels
1918: How the Allies Surfed to Victory on a Wave of Oil

Virtually everybody knows that the First World War came to an end when Germany capitulated on November 11, 1918. But very few people are aware that, earlier in that same […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 25 Sep 2018
- Nino Pagliccia
US Disregard for International Law is a Menace to Latin America

This is a situation where Venezuela cannot wait or hope for any immediate help except from its own people, and it has to lean on the side of caution, writes […]