By Stephen Sefton (A longer version of this piece was published on http://www.tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/7269? on September 4, 2019.) A fundamental dimension…
Read more →Venezuela What Are Our Tasks and Perspectives to Defend Venezuela? Many respected progressive and leftist intellectuals and analysts in North…
Read more →By Jorge Capelan (Translated by Nan McCurdy. A longer version of this piece was published in managuaconamor.blogspot.com on Aug. 29,…
Read more →Originally published in Liberation A new phase of armed conflict in Colombia has emerged with the declaration by some former…
Read more →Colombia remains the world’s most dangerous place to be a union organizer. The International Trade Union Confederation reports that in…
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By Stephen Sefton (A longer version of this piece was published on http://www.tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/7269? on September 4, 2019.) A fundamental dimension of contemporary psychological warfare has been dual-purpose corporate co-option of non-governmental organizations. In that psy-warfare dimension, NGOs serve both as disinformation partners with Western news media and too as false interlocutors in international forums and…
Venezuela What Are Our Tasks and Perspectives to Defend Venezuela? Many respected progressive and leftist intellectuals and analysts in North America and Europe are paying perhaps too much attention, or are carried away by, the internal dynamics of the Bolivarian revolution, without realizing that our main task is not to speculate about the revolutionary process…
By Jorge Capelan (Translated by Nan McCurdy. A longer version of this piece was published in managuaconamor.blogspot.com on Aug. 29, 2019) In Nicaragua, the sun continues to shine without declining an inch, as the great Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío stated. Tourism is recovering, agricultural production continues to increase, social programs do not stop, Managua welcomes…
Originally published in Liberation A new phase of armed conflict in Colombia has emerged with the declaration by some former leaders of the FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia — People’s Army) that they are reorganizing and rearming as an insurgent force. Iván Márquez (aka Luciano Marín Arango) made the announcement in a press conference…
Colombia remains the world’s most dangerous place to be a union organizer. The International Trade Union Confederation reports that in 2018, 34 union members were murdered. The tally for 2018 is more than double that of 2017’s 15 victims, and 2019 is on pace to surpass 2018. In one organization alone, the FENSUAGRO federation of…
