(2021-09-01). Haiti's Debt of Independence. libya360.wordpress.com Yves Engler In the vast history of imperialist exploitation few episodes match the depravity of Haiti's debt of independence. Military blackmail of a small country by a superpower, prioritizing "property rights" over human rights, racial capitalism, a sellout "light skinned" local bourgeoise and the way our past haunts the present are all part of the…
(2021-09-01). How Amilcar Cabral Shaped Paulo Freire's Pedagogy. popularresistance.org Amílcar L Cabral was born 12 September 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of Portugal's African colonies. He was murdered on 20 January 1973 by fascist Portuguese assassins just months before the national liberation movement, in which he played a central role, won the independence of Guinea-Bissau. | Cabral and the other leaders of the movement understood that they were fighting in a larger anticolonial struggle and global class war and, as such, that their immediate enemies were not only the colonial governments of particular countries, but Portuguese colonialism in general. For 500 years, Portuguese colonialism…
(2021-09-01). EDITORIAL: Cuomo afuera, #TimesUp para todos los misóginos de la clase dominante. workers.org 
Finalmente, después de meses de negaciones, despidos y excusas débiles por múltiples incidentes de acoso sexual, el gobernador de Nueva York Andrew Cuomo ha renunciado a su cargo. Esta acción se produjo sólo después de que la fiscal general del estado, Letitia James, una mujer africana-americana, publicara el 3 de . . . |
(2021-09-01). Russia-Egypt Relations: Nuclear Energy Plant Construction. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-01). Latin America: In Search of Lost Sovereignty. libya360.wordpress.com Ariela Ruiz Caro Part of the Presencia de América Latina mural. Photograph Source: Fotografía tomada por Farisori; Autor del mural: Jorge González Camarena, mexicano; Propiedad de la Universidad de Concepción — CC BY-SA 3.0 Two recent events have activated the possibility of relaunching Latin American and Caribbean cooperation and coordination, so neglected during the last five…
(2021-09-01). How Paul Kagame Lies to the World — Rwanda's Neoliberalism and Pleasing Private Capital. orinocotribune.com By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza — Aug 30, 2021 | Rwanda is often touted as a "success story" in international media coverage, with the architect of such "success" being its president, Paul Kagame. But little is said about Kagame's ideological standpoint, one that has widened income inequalities in Rwanda. The country's political elite amass wealth unabatedly while the majority are mired in endless cycles of poverty. This is coupled with Kagame's insatiable appetite for power under the dictates of the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). | The almost miraculous transformation of Rwanda is laudable. Here is a co…
(2021-08-31). How the US Came to Dominate Haiti: Part I — Dark Finance. libya360.wordpress.com Peter James Hudson James Stillman, City Bank's president from 1891 to 1909, was one of the architects of the bank's imperial expansion. Last week, 420 U.S. sailors and 200 Marines were deployed to Haiti, ostensibly to help provide humanitarian relief to victims of the Aug. 14, 2021 earthquake that struck Haiti's southern peninsula. It marks…
(2021-08-31). Should the Cuban Revolution Hold on to Power? libya360.wordpress.com Introduction Part 1: The Account of Comrade Frank García Hernández Versus That of His Overseas 'Friends' Part 2: Demanding the Impossible: Left 'Criticisms' of Cuba Part 3: The Objective Situation Facing the Cuban Revolution…
(2021-08-31). Save a Space for Lou Proyect, Rebel Against the Status Quo. counterpunch.org Like most of us, he had to earn a living. He labored as a social worker in Harlem, and as a computer programmer at an insurance company, a hospital, on Wall Street, and finally for more than two decades at Columbia University. During this time, he moved steadily to the left, eventually joining the Socialist Workers Party, which he left after eleven years, watching it sink into sectarian irrelevance. He was active in the struggle to end the war in Vietnam. He gave technical support to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the African National Congress in South Africa. He was a steadfast supporter of the Cuban Revolutio…
(2021-08-31). U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan: Is a Geopolitical Strategy Behind This? libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara The Taliban celebrate the US departure The last US military plane left Kabul at 23: 59 on August 30, bringing to a close a nearly 20-year invasion by the United States and its allies on Afghan soil. The Taliban immediately took control of the airport, announcing that the Islamic Emirate is now a "free…
(2021-08-31). Why do so many countries have military bases in Djibouti? peoplesworld.org 
The Republic of Djibouti is located on the African shore of the Red Sea, at the southern entrance of this important waterway that passes through the Suez Canal, in Egypt. Djibouti is a country of modest size, but big geopolitical significance, especially when its proximity to Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, and Uganda, is considered. Moreover, …
(2021-08-31). Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab Fights Latest US Extradition Maneuvers. counterpunch.org Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab remains defiant after over 14 months under US-ordered arrest in the African archipelago country of Cabo Verde. A special envoy of the Venezuelan government, he is fighting extradition to the US for the "crime" of trying to procure humanitarian supplies of food, fuel, and medicine from Iran in violation of illegal
(2021-08-31). Neoliberal Globalization in Crisis. libya360.wordpress.com Alvaro García Linera International Course "State, Politics and Democracy in Latin America". We are living through the unforeseen combination of four mutually reinforcing crises: a medical crisis, economic crisis, environmental crisis, and political crisis. A situation of enormous perplexity and anguish. It seems that society and the world have lost their way, direction, their destiny….
(2021-08-31). Why the discovery of natural gas in Mozambique has produced tragedies, not economic promise. peoplesdispatch.org 
The rise of the al-Shabaab insurgency in the Cabo Delgado province and the "hidden debt" scandal are both linked to discovery of natural gas in Mozambique, a development that has far from benefited the people…