Argentina
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GMO Soy, Popular Resistance, and Corporate Power
Why does GMO soy dominate Argentine agriculture? ‘Seeds of Power’ exposes the forces that have overwhelmed voices of resistance. Continue reading
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Argentina’s House of Horrors
Forty-four years after the Argentine military began disappearing thousands of citizens following the March 24, 1976, coup, human rights investigators have located one of the first clandestine torture sites used by state intelligence operatives. The clandestine center was identified after the declassification of thousands of U.S. intelligence records last year, among them a secret CIA… Continue reading
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Jeffrey Zwi Epstein Migdal By Gilad Atzmon
31 August 2019 — Dissident Voice The story of Jeffrey Epstein has lost its mystery as more and more commentators allow themselves to express the thought that it is a strong possibility that Epstein was connected to a crime syndicate affiliated with a Zionist political organisation or Israel and/or at least a few compromised intelligence agencies. Whitney Web and others have produced Continue reading
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The Latin American left’s setbacks: what does it all mean?
Freeman: The progressive Latin American governments of the twenty-first century, the so-called Pink Tide governments, have over the recent past received heavy blows and have been replaced by conservative and right-wing governments in Brazil, Argentina and evidently Ecuador. What are people on the right saying about these setbacks for the left? Continue reading
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Don’t Spy for Me Argentina By Wayne Madsen
When an incompetent US President hires as his “special envoy” for regime change in Venezuela the very same buffoon who fumbled his way into helping to expose the Iran-Contra scandal, one can expect anything. Continue reading
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The U.S. Has Venezuela in Its Crosshairs By VJ Prashad
Last Thursday—on January 10—Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for his second term as president of Venezuela. “I tell the people,” Maduro said, “this presidential sash is yours. The power of this sash is yours. It does not belong to the oligarchy or to imperialism. It belongs to the sovereign people of Venezuela.” These two terms—oligarchy… Continue reading
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Who is Pope Francis? Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina’s “Dirty War” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The former Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has intimated in an eleven page Testimony that Pope Francis was involved (from the outset of his papacy in March 2013) in the coverup of sex abuse allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Vigano says that Pope Francis should step down from the papacy. Continue reading
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Israel scores painful own goal in run-up to the World Cup By Dr James M Dorsey
7 June 2018 — CounterCurrents Argentina’s cancellation of a friendly against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is likely to reverberate far beyond the world of soccer and spotlights the risks of Israeli efforts to persuade the international community to recognize Jerusalem as its capital. Continue reading
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The Empire’s Media and the Quest for Veto Authority in the Americas by Joe Emersberger
In April, the Summit of the Americas in Peru predictably led to articles fretting about declining US influence in the Western Hemisphere. Analysts were quoted (Christian Science Monitor, 4/11/18) worrying that Trump’s belligerent and racist outbursts would weaken Washington’s power in the region. Continue reading
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NYT Failed to Note Op-Ed Authors' Funder Has $2 Billion Motive for Attacking Argentina By Eli Clifton/LobeLog
Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times (12/11/17) to celebrate last week’s announcement that Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, would face treason charges for her alleged role in covering up Iran’s alleged involvement in… Continue reading
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NSA: Obama Declassifies Top Secret Intelligence Files on Repression in Argentina
Washington D.C., December 12 – Operation Condor, the trans-border, multinational effort by Southern Cone secret police services to track down and “liquidate” opponents of their regimes in the 1970s, targeted officials of Amnesty International as well as human rights groups, and planned overseas missions in Paris and London, according to a comprehensive CIA report on… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Operation Condor Verdict: GUILTY!
Washington D.C., May 27, 2016 – As a federal tribunal in Buenos Aires announced guilty verdicts in the historic prosecution of eighteen Argentine military officers for participating in the coordinated, cross-border system of repression known as “Operation Condor,” the National Security Archive today hailed the ruling as a “major milestone for the principle of human… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Obama Brings ‘Declassified Diplomacy’ To Argentina
Washington, March 18, 2016 – As President Obama prepares to go to Argentina next week on the 40th anniversary of the military coup, the National Security Archive hailed his decision to declassify hundreds of still secret CIA and Defense Department records on the repression during the military dictatorship. The documents, whose release the Archive’s Carlos… Continue reading
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Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us” By Fabiana Frayssinet
The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina’s central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the week-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant. Continue reading
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Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us” By Fabiana Frayssinet
The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina’s central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the week-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant. Continue reading
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Obama to Putin: Do as I say, not as I do… By Adrian Salbuchi
A row between the US and Moscow over Snowden’s extradition has reached a new level of tension after Barack Obama canceled a long-planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, again showing the adherence of US to double-standard politics. Continue reading
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The Israel-Argentina Yellowcake Connection
During 1963-64, the Israeli government secretly acquired 80-100 tons of Argentine uranium oxide (“yellowcake”) for its nuclear weapons program, according to U.S. and British archival documents published today for the first time jointly by the National Security Archive, the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Continue reading
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Death of Margaret Thatcher Reopens the Debate Over Her Cruel Legacy By Roger Annis
The death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on April 8 has renewed an intense political debate in Britain and internationally over her legacy. For her ruling class sycophants, Thatcher was a heroine, “one of the greatest” prime ministers Britain ever had. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 10-16 March 2013: Chavez / EU-oil / Syria / Obamacare / Empires / CIA / Falklands /US Psychotic Superpower
16 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Return of Empires (VI)16.03.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ The rebirth of the imperial spirit in the West is moving along two sometimes converging, but in recent times increasingly diverging, lines. Looking at Europe’s relations with its neighbours, one can see that the European Union initially pursued an Continue reading
The New Dark Age 