Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
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by Daniel Kovalik and John Perry, published on MROnline, August 4, 2023 A recorded interview with Daniel Kovalik on the history of the Nicaraguan revolution follows this article. (UNAC Editor) Three previous articles (1, 2, 3) described the attempted coup in Nicaragua in 2018, and how public support grew initially but then waned. This final article, covering the period from[…]
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by Charles Pierson, published on CounterPunch, August 29, 2023 There’s a new sheriff in town and he’s going into Mexico with both six-guns blazin’. Asked during the first Republican presidential primary debate on August 23 whether he would send US Special Forces across the US-Mexican border to interdict fentanyl smuggling, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis barked: “YES, and I will do it on ‘Day[…]
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by Celina della Croce, published on MROnline, August 18, 2023 On March 26, 2022, Francisco lay in a public hospital bed in Bolívar, Venezuela, roughly eight hours inland from the capital of Caracas. He had been waiting for more than twenty-four hours to be seen by a doctor for fluids filling his stomach in a hot room with no fan[…]
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News from TeleSURTV, August 15, 2023 The U.S. is in the process of ceding CITGO to the right wing opposition in Venezuela who do not hold power there and who are not responsible to the people of Venezuela. On Monday, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, demanded the return of the company Citgo, a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA),[…]
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by Stephen Sefton, published on Tortilla con Sal, August 13, 2023 Latin America and Africa, unite in a history of resistance to colonialism and a passion for sovereignty and peaceful development. [jb] Historically, the United States and its allies only retreat from their aggressive policies and the imposition of their dominance when they suffer a strategic defeat. They never[…]
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by Roger McKenzie, published in Morning Star, August 4, 2023 The years under neoliberalism in Nicaragua saw trade union rights stripped away, collective bargaining agreements junked and, as trade union strength waned, living standards plummeted. The 1980s saw massive investment in essential services after the 1979 revolution by the Sandinistas. This brought about major advances in education and healthcare as[…]
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by Rick Sterling, published on Global Research, August 10, 2023 Many nations in the Americas have suffered from US promoted coups, dictatorships, sanctions and outright invasions. Nicaragua may take the cake for being the most victimized. Dan Kovalik has written a book which reviews the history of intervention and resistance up to the present day. Kovalik includes his own experiences[…]
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by Stephen Sefton, published on Tortilla con Sal, August 6, 2023 The patterns of neocolonial intervention in the majority world by the United States and its allies since their victories over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945 are very clear. Almost immediately the Western countries started a cycle of bloody aggression against peoples resisting colonialism, followed later by the[…]
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by Judy Bello, August 5, 2023 I was invited this year, by some friends, to visit Nicaragua on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the July 19 victory of their revolution against a violent oppressive government controlled by the United States. Not to be outmaneuvered by an indigenous people, the United States continued the war for another decade, arming[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 2, 2023 The U.S. has used its influence to steal another country’s oil revenues. Venezuela is in the crosshairs because it dares to be socialist in the hemisphere the U.S. claims as it’s “backyard.” It was always about the oil. United States assertions that the government of elected president Nicolas Maduro[…]
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