John Kirk* – Al Jazeera
From June 6 to 10 Los Angeles will host the “Summit of the Americas,” with the basic goal of strengthening hemispheric solidarity. At a time when Washington is increasingly involved in supporting the war in...
by Raffaele Crocco
It was 1 January. If the first day of the year marks the beginning of something, or at least that’s how it’s perceived, then the 1st of January 1994 really marked the beginning of an adventure. On...
by Stefano Bocconetti
The American High Court has ruled on abortion: bringing the US history 50 years back, everyone says. But this is not the case - it's probably even worse. Why? "Because the difference between now and the last...
By Emma Brockes* – The Guardian
One of the worst things about the Trump presidency was the frequent sense that the man could do or say anything and, Alice in Wonderland-style, the sheer lunacy of it would never break through....
Clashes in the province of Chincheros, Apurímac, between members of the community and the national police resulted in the death of a second person. This brings the number of dead in Apurímac to four,' writes El Comercio, 'and there...
by Maurizio Sacchi
Peru's chief prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into new President Dina Boluarte and members of her cabinet for the violent clashes in which at least 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured since the beginning...
By Natasha Lennard - The Intercept_
A panel of three Trump-appointed judges this week upheld an excessive eight-year prison sentence handed down to climate activist Jessica Reznicek, ruling that a terrorism enhancement attached to her sentence was “harmless.”
The terror enhancement, which dramatically...
By Azeezah Kanji* – Truthout
As the British government moves ever closer to extraditing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, the pantomime of “justice” cloaking his persecution in the regalia of the “rule of law” continues to unfold:...
By Emanuele Profumi from Santiago, Chile
"I feel at the edge of a precipice. I feel dizzy. The Chilean reality is going to be very hard now. We have been experiencing a very deep crisis for a long time: political,...
By Emanuele Profumo from Santiago, Chile
Santiago - The next 4 September, in less than two weeks, Chile will decide what country it wants to become. After the Estallido Social of 2019, the most important popular uprising since the return...
