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Israel’s New-Old Discrimination

The message of Israel’s new “nation state” law is as simple as it as repugnant: Palestinians need not exist.   On Thursday, the Israeli parliament passed a new law establishing […]

The NGO-ization of resistance

A hazard facing mass movements is the NGO-ization of resistance.   It will be easy to twist what I’m about to say into an indictment of all NGOs. That would […]

America’s Reporter: the Hersh Method

If Seymour Hersh had only broken the story of the massacre of unarmed civilians at My Lai in Vietnam by the United States Army in 1968, it would have been enough […]

Russiagate is a Ruling Class Diversion

So this is what we can look forward to in the long twilight of a shrinking U.S. empire: the shrieks of a delirious ruling class, concocting endless diversions from the […]

In Nicaragua, is Operation “Contra bis” failing?

Thrown under the spotlight since mid-April, the homeland of Sandino is still facing an intense political crisis. From now on, the crisis seems to be approaching its final resolution. On […]

Clinging to Collusion: Why Evidence Will Probably Never Be Produced in the Indictments of ‘Russian Agents’

The indictment of 12 Russian ‘agents,’ which included no collusion with Trump’s team, is essentially a political and not legal document because it is almost certain the U.S. government will […]

Batam Island – Indonesia’s pathetic attempt to create a second Singapore

This time it was really supposed to work! The turbo-capitalist, anti-Communist and obedient Indonesia got so used to hearing bizarrely inflated compliments from its Western handlers, that it began to […]

Israel wants to break Gaza once and for all

A nation ranked the eighth most powerful in the world has tightened the medieval siege it has imposed on a population of mainly refugees, half of them children, for more than a decade. […]

Nicaragua: Legitimacy And Human Rights

Defeated opposition leaders hoped to impose their coup, failed because they lacked popular support and now have to accept what the Sandinista government is prepared to agree.   The murder […]

Rescuing Food Sovereignty in the Venezuelan Andes

In the remote village of Gavidia, in the state of Mérida, a very interesting experience is taking place: the rescue of the native potato and other native foodstuffs; something that […]

Why Such Hate Against Rafael Correa?

They are trying to legally nullify Rafael Correa, an Ecuadorean colossus, who stood up against the empire because the horsemen of death know their Junius Brutus (Lenin Moreno) has his […]

Tribute to Robert Parry : investigative Journalist and Patriot

Robert (Bob) Parry was born in 1949 and died suddenly from pancreatic cancer in January 2018. An enthusiastic tribute to him and his work was recently held in Berkeley California. […]

Reviewed: Alan MacLeod’s ‘Bad News From Venezuela’

For almost 20 years, the US government has been trying to overthrow Venezuela’s government, and establishment media outlets (state, corporate and some nonprofit) throughout the Americas and Europe have been bending over backwards […]

A Secret Political Genocide in Colombia

“One does not know if the paramilitaries are going to kill you first or if one will be killed by the avalanche of Hidroituango.” – Ana María Cortés, campaign organizer. […]

No, AMLO Is Not Mexico’s Trump

Equating Andrés Manuel López Obrador with Donald Trump may be absurd, but that hasn’t stopped mainstream media from running with it.   Mexico’s answer to Donald Trump. Let’s say that again: […]

Terrorism

Understanding the Muslim World