“The western media talks about democracy and the liberation of Afghanistan, but the U.S. and its allies are engaged in the warlordization, criminalization and drug-lordization of our wounded land,” Afghani woman parliamentarian Malalai Joya told an audience at the University of California in Los Angeles last month.
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May 26, 2007
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Deepening poverty in most capitalist countries, an inherent inability to plan and organize on the necessary scale, and a refusal to fund or insure unprofitable remediation projects (many essential projects will not be profitable) are among the factors behind capitalism’s inability to solve the problem of environmental destruction.
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May 26, 2007
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The scandal that led to the forced resignation of Iraq war guru Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank “is just the tip of the iceberg,” Nadia Martinez, who co-directs the Institute for Policy Studies’ Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, wrote earlier this month.
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May 26, 2007
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SAN ANTONIO, Tejas — Catorce líderes nacionales, miembros de sindicatos, de importantes organizaciones civiles de Estados Unidos y un congresista mexicano asistieron en la ciudad de San Antonio este 5 de mayo al Primer Foro Internacional sobre Migración.
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May 19, 2007
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El 28 de enero fue asesinado Freddy Espitía en Montería, Córdoba, Colombia. También, tres días después fue asesinada Yolanda Izquierdo. Ambos eran desplazados y estaban luchando por los derechos de las personas internamente desplazadas (PID), en particular los campesinos pobres.
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May 19, 2007
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Michael Moore has joined the ranks of victims of U.S. trade and travel restrictions against Cuba. His organization reported that the filmmaker received an inquiry from the U.S. Treasury Department about a trip Moore took to Cuba in March to film segments for his upcoming release “Sicko.”
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May 19, 2007
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After decades of international conferences like Rio and Kyoto, despite local victories and major protests, the destruction of humanity’s environment continues. Don’t the capitalists who control most world production care about human survival — even their own? Or are they incapable of stopping it?
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May 19, 2007
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Cada vez que en alguna parte del mundo brota un movimiento orientado por ideas socialistas, como el que estamos viviendo ahora en Venezuela y que hemos convenido en denominar revolución bolivariana, surge casi de modo inevitable la interrogante sobre el tipo de socialismo al cual se refiere en concreto ese movimiento.
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May 12, 2007
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En medio de reportes de movimientos militares, violentos ataques antigubernamentales y rumores de conspiraciones, parece que el gobierno venezolano del presidente Hugo Chávez aumenta su ritmo de movimiento hacia un socialismo estilo latinoamericano, movimiento de carácter único que todavía está en evolución.
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May 12, 2007
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El domingo 29 de abril, los Veteranos de la Brigada Abraham Lincoln se reunieron con familiares, amigos y partidarios para conmemorar el 71 aniversario del grupo.
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May 12, 2007
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