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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part III)

A surging Pink Tide has brought left electoral victories in Latin America and the Caribbean protesting the neoliberal model imposed by the US and its collaborators. Neoliberalism has failed to meet the needs of the peoples of the region and is losing its legitimacy as a prototype for development. However, the countries of the region […]
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 1)

Latin America and the Caribbean have again began to take on a becoming pink complexion, all the more so with June’s historic electoral victory in Colombia over the country’s long-dominant US-backed right-wing and a similar reverse in Brazil in October. These electoral rejections of the right-wing followed left victories last year in Peru, Honduras, and […]

Brazil: Child Services Moves To Take Children Away From Election Protesters

The National Council of Justice in Brazil, in an effort to attempt to vanquish protests, issued an order to verify the condition of children attending protests and children are being forcibly removed from their parents' custody. A Supreme Court judge ordered banks to block the accounts of anyone supporting the protests

For Lula’s Victory to Matter: A Proposal for a Unified Palestinian Foreign Policy  

Palestinians and their supporters are justified in celebrating the election victory of the leftist presidential candidate, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, in Brazil’s runoff elections on October 30. But Lula’s victory is incomplete and could ultimately prove ineffectual if not followed by a concrete and centralized Palestinian strategy. Lula has proven, throughout the years, to […]

Amazon Rainforest Crisis Report at COP27

Rain Forest Trust (Photo Credit) The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued a new Living Amazon Report, 2022 at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The eye-opening report defines a horror story of human destruction of the world’s largest rainforest. There’s no other way to look at it. Commercialization of the Amazon Rainforest is rampant in a […]
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The Attack on Nature Is Putting Humanity at Risk

Heloisa Hariadne (Brazil), Com uma gota já se faz oceano pra sede se matar em mergulho (‘A drop of water becomes an ocean to quench a diver’s thirst’), 2021. In the last week of October, João Pedro Stedile, a leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil and the global peasants’ organisation La Via […]
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Research: Countries That Sought ‘Zero-COVID’ Lockdowns Have The Least Immunity

Kevin Frayer/Getty Images By Steve Watson | Summit News | November 4, 2022 New research has revealed the countries that implemented the harshest lockdowns as part of ‘zero-COVID’ policies now have the least immunity from the virus itself. The analysis by The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School […]