Latin America
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CIA Manipulation: The Painful Truths Told by Phil Agee By William Blum
efore there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before there was Bradley Manning, Sibel Edmonds and Jesselyn Radack … there was Philip Agee. What Agee revealed is still the most startling and important information about U.S. foreign policy that any American government whistleblower has ever revealed. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 2 March, 2011: End of Obama-ism, US Lunge for Libyan Oil, Anti-Black Psy-Ops
It becomes clearer by the day that “Obama-ism, rather than providing the new Democratic dispensation that delusional progressives and masses of Blacks imagined, is a straight-line path to defeat.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 September, 2010: The Beloved Black Spy / Color of Change vs. Black Caucus
22 September, 2010 — BAR Freedom Rider: Ernest Withers the Informant by BAR editor and senior Margaret Kimberley The trusted “movement” photographer was a spy for J. Edgar Hoover. Ernest Withers apparently cashed in on his close relationship with unsuspecting Black Sixties activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Withers is dead, but not forgiven. Continue reading
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New on nacla.org 27 May, 2010: Latin America & China / Puerto Rico / Bolivia elections
North American Congress on Latin America What’s Left for Latin America to Do With China? by Kevin Gallagher The high-gloss, made-for-flat-screen multi-billion dollar signing ceremonies between Chinese and Latin American officials have been staged to portray the triumphant return of the New International Economic Order. Yes, it’s true, the Global South is banding together again Continue reading
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New on nacla.org 29 April, 2010: Arizonans React to New Immigration Law
On April 23 Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law what is being billed as the “broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations.” The law requires Arizona police to ask people for documentation based on a “reasonable suspicion” that they are in the country “unlawfully,” it targets day laborers and their employers, and sets up… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation online magazine latest publications 21-25 March, 2010
Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-03-25 Aleksandr SALITZKY Vladimir TATSIY China’s Accelerating Economic Growth (II) “ China’s huge package of economic stimuli continues to draw attention worldwide. The investments into manufacturing assets in 2009 totaled 22 trillion yuan, a 30.1% hike compared to 2008 The super-ambitious investment plan intended to keep the Chinese economy crisis-free is being Continue reading
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Video: Ska-P, “The Liberator”
Amidst misery, hunger, and desolation Somebody planted a flower in the mud A certain Bolívar, they call him the Liberator The Liberator Shouts for justice, land, and freedom Again resonate in South America A new revolution has begun And this time it’s advancing with conviction Continue reading
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ALBA: Dawn of Solidarity in Latin America Part 2
Video: Panel on the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America Continue reading
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ALBA: Dawn of Solidarity in Latin America Part 1
Panel on the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America Continue reading
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Honduras: National Front of Resistance against the Coup d'État, "Communiqué No. 28"
13 October, 2009 — MRZine – Monthly Review The National Front of Resistance against the Coup d’État, in view of the latest developments at the table of dialogue established at the behest of the Organization of American States (OAS) announces that: We withdrew our compañero Juan Barahona from the so-called Guaymuras dialogue. Comrade Barahona served Continue reading
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Trade’s Trade Offs – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Introduction Adam Smith and David Ricardo’s theories regarding the potential positive effects of free international trade are today widely leaned upon by economists and policymakers. But even Adam Smith came to qualify his claims, noting, among other things, the need for free trade to be introduced slowly so that domestic industry and labor could adjust Continue reading
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Obama on Latin America – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As Election Day draws near, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama repeatedly have focused their attention on such key foreign policy issues as the Iraq War and the global financial crisis. U.S. policy toward Latin America, on the other hand, has been notoriously absent from figuring in recent presidential debates or stump speeches, as Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Power of Nightmares and the Real Politics of Fear – Part 2
American elites have long sought to manufacture and promote a shared myth of ‘America’ based on “symbols by which Americans defined their dream and pictured social reality.” Adam Curtis alluded to this myth-making in his BBC series The Power of Nightmares, but he portrayed it as a process initiated and pursued by neoconservatives from the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 