Global South

By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Last week actors and human rights advocates Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, sent a letter to Congress and…
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By Aurelio Pedroso This verb is really something, because putting your name on a list can be considered an act of registration. But in Spanish it also means to search, to look into or…
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By Sarah Stephens From The Huffington Post After a sub-par performance in Latin America during 2009, the Obama administration has truly risen to this occasion with its forceful response…
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Blackwater before drinking water By Greg Palast (Editor’s Note: Although not noted in this article by Palast, as far as a quick and efficient reaction to Haiti’s tragedy, just…
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By Leonardo Padura Fuentes From IPS Haiti was the first independent nation in Latin America. The French colony of Saint Domingue, which occupied the western half of Hispaniola…
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Excerpts of Naomi Klein’s appearance on Amy Goodman’s show Democracy Now! on the events in Haiti and who are profiting already with the tragedy. As I write about in The Shock Doctrine,…
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Donate online to MEDICC’s HAITI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL. The effects of the disastrous earthquake in Haiti will be long term. That’s why MEDICC and Global Links (Pittsburgh, PA) are sending…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes “If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine…
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By Steve Clemons Washington (CNN) -- In Latin America, Cuba stands out as one of the most effective deployers of soft power. Rather than exporting revolution, Cuba today exports…
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‘We can open up, but not until we’re good and ready,’ says President-elect Pepe Mujica of Uruguay An interview with Hamlet Hermann By Elíades Acosta Matos Nobody would believe…
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