teleSUR | April 8, 2017 Diabetes has become the leading cause of death in Mexico, according to a new study released by the World Health Organization, WHO. The United Nations agency claims diabetes rates in the Latin American country began surging just over two decades ago, around the time the North American Free Trade Agreement, […]
teleSUR | April 8, 2017 In 2015, the United States government earmarked at least US$4.26 million for Venezuela through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, with much of this going to organizations undertaking anti-government work. Almost US$2 million of these funds were funneled through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an organization created […]
teleSUR | March 30, 2017 A Brazilian judge sentenced Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of the lower house and mastermind behind the parliamentary coup against former President Dilma Rousseff, to 15 years and four months in jail Thursday for corruption charges. The sentence is the result of a criminal suit investigating Cunha for fraud related […]
corbettreport – March 27, 2017 David Rockefeller is dead. But what does it mean? How do we measure the life of someone who has shaped the modern world to such an extent? Join us for this week’s edition of The Corbett Report where we examine David Rockefeller’s life, his works and the world that he […]
John Poindexter, Walter Raymond Jr. and Ronald Reagan. (Photo credit: Reagan presidential library) By Robert Parry | Consortium News | March 25, 2017 Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that – over the past three decades – have created an alternative […]
By James Petras :: 03.24.2017 Introduction The cross border flood of millions of immigrants provokes profound political divisions, violence and the rise of mass movements challenging the unity of the European Union (EU) and the survival of the dominant political parties in the US and Europe. Both the progressive pro-immigrant and rightwing anti-immigration parties and […]
Brasil Wire | March 20, 2017 On March 20, David Rockefeller died at the age of 101. As the obituaries for one of the world’s richest men gush over his philanthropy, it needs to be pointed out that he was a major player in several Latin American coups, supported extremely corrupt military dictatorships, post-dictatorship neoliberal […]
teleSUR | March 22, 2017 Waldomiro Costa Pereira, an activist with the Landless Workers Movement, MST, was killed Monday when gunmen stormed a hospital in Parauapebas in northeastern Brazil’s Para state, activists said in a statement. Five armed men burst into a small town hospital in the Brazilian Amazon, surrounded security guards and shot dead […]
David Rockefeller’s true legacy is much more mired in controversy than major publications seem willing to admit. (Photo: Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx)
By James Petras :: 03.18.2017 Introduction Over thirty year ago a savvy Colombian peasant leader told me, “Whenever I read the word ‘peace accords’ I hear the government sharpening its knives”. In recent times, ‘peace accords’ (PAs) have become a common refrain across the world. In almost every region or country, which are in the […]
