Global South

By Atilio A. Borón From Página 12 (Argentina) An unconditional pawn of the empire, Álvaro Uribe says goodbye to the presidency of Colombia with a new provocation: the allegation…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Sacramento Bee Imagine that Barack Obama, upon taking office in January 2009, had decided to deliver on his campaign promise “to end business-as-usual in…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian At dawn one year ago, on June 28, soldiers invaded the home of Honduran President Mel Zelaya and flew him to Costa Rica. It was a frightening…
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By Gimleteye From Eye on Miami The Miami Herald seems to pick up the theme I recently wrote about: Marco Rubio's bid to be the next U.S. Senator from Florida is washing up on Gulf…
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By Jean-Guy Allard “Fleecing the Americans” is nothing new for the managers of the anti-Castro industry in Miami and the “dissidents” of all kinds who were turned against Cuba from…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian In the film "Guantanamera," the last by renowned Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the Yoruba creation myth is presented as a metaphor for the…
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By Peter Constantini From the Inter Press Service (IPS) Haitian farmers are worried that giant transnational corporations like Monsanto are attempting to gain a larger foothold in…
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By Raúl Zibecchi From Questiondigital The reaction of the White House, as voiced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who scorned the Teheran accord and attempts to go ahead…
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By Beverly Bell From Truthout.org "A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA, May 17 – Private farmers, who generate 70 percent of the food produced in Cuba, asked for more freedom to sell their…
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