Archives for أغسطس 2018

With Formal Withdrawal from UNASUR, Colombia’s Duque Undercuts LatAm Resistance to Washington

UNASUR has been awash in crisis ever since April, when Colombia along with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru announced the temporary suspension of their respective memberships in the organization.

بواسطة Elliott Gabriel
U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), escorts Colombian President-elect Ivan Duque at the command’s headquarters in Doral, Fla., July 14. Photo | SOUTHCOM

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Colombia’s new right-wing President Ivan Duque has announced that he will begin the formal process of ending his country’s participation in the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), making good on his campaign promise to remove Colombia from a regional body he sees as acting in league with the elected government of Venezuelan

McCain’s Death Draws Few Tears in Moscow, as Russia Bows Off a Sworn Enemy

McCain grew obsessive in his resentful attitude toward Moscow, and his hawkishness only grew as Putin followed through on his pledge to not behave as a U.S. vassal.

بواسطة Elliott Gabriel
John McCain

MOSCOW - It is utterly predictable that while U.S. news media has been flooded by heartfelt eulogies from politicians over the death of Senator John McCain, the reaction in Russia has largely been been the polar opposite. It would hardly be an exaggeration to note that Russian state and media figures have, in a figurative sense, danced on the

How to Create a US-Backed Government Coup in Five Easy Steps

Nicaragua just defeated a US-backed violent coup attempt… but how did the US even set up a coup in the first place?

بواسطة Lee Camp

This article originally appeared on Truth Dig. Nicaragua just defeated a U.S.-backed violent coup attempt, and no one cares. Well, let me revise that: Very few care. English teachers may care because they may find it fascinating the phrase “violent coup” is one of the only English phrases often introduced with the prefix “U.S.-backed.” But

Evidence Grows That Netanyahu’s Government Meddled in UK Politics

The Israeli foreign affairs ministry employs staff of the country’s embassy in London, which was at the centre of suspicions of meddling in UK politics provoked by an Al Jazeera undercover documentary aired last year.

بواسطة Jonathan Cook
anti-Semitism

Nazareth, Israel: Has Israel been covertly fueling claims of an “anti-Semitism crisis” purportedly plaguing Britain’s Labour Party since it elected a new leader, Jeremy Corbyn, three years ago? That question is raised by a new freedom of information request submitted this week by a group of Israeli lawyers, academics and human rights

Something Big is Coming to Syria Amid Warnings of New Chemical Attack

It now appears the US stands ready to respond militarily to even the most unlikely and flimsiest of accusations.

بواسطة ZeroHedge.com
Nikki Haley, United States' Ambassador United Nations, shows pictures of Syrian victims of chemical attacks as she addresses a meeting of the Security Council on Syria at U.N. headquarters, April 5, 2017. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

We warned previously that something big is coming in Syria as the final showdown for al-Qaeda held Idlib looms with the Syrian Army and Russian aerial and naval forces taking position. Pentagon and US officials continue pushing the gambit, setting the stage to play the "Assad is gassing his own people" card should so much as an inkling of a

Ugandan Farmers Emerge Victorious After Monthlong Occupation of UN Office

The occupiers began their trek from Apaa to Gulu on July 10, a journey that took over 20 hours on foot and by truck, due to bad roads and mechanical breakdowns. They arrived, silently, at 7 a.m. outside the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, with a petition on behalf of over 26,000 Apaa residents.

بواسطة Phil Wilmot

After 37 days of occupying a United Nations office in Gulu, Uganda, 234 farmers, youth, mothers with young babies and elderly men packed their gear into trucks and returned to their homes in Apaa — an area of rich farmland and forest in the north of the country. Far from being a quiet and somber event, their departure was marked by an explosion of