Stansfield Smith, ChicagoALBASolidarity.org, a former leader of the Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban Five The film Wasp Network, based on the book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War, The Story of the Cuban Five by Fernando Morais, is a co-production between France, Spain, Belgium and Brazil. It was shown in Cuba last December, soon … Continue reading The “Wasp Network” Highlights our Lack of Freedom to Tell the Truth on the Cuban Five Case
Venezuela & ALBA News 6.19.2020: Cuba and Venezuela condemn racist First World, Continue International Solidarity and Cooperation
Speech by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez during online conference of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) June 10: These hard times motivate us to continue working together, with more cooperation and consensus building “Every ship to which ports have been closed; every plane that has not found a landing strip; … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 6.19.2020: Cuba and Venezuela condemn racist First World, Continue International Solidarity and Cooperation
Venezuela- ALBA Weekly 6.12.2020: US Campaign against Cuban Doctors, against Nicaragua’s COVID Success, against Venezuela’s Economy
Cuba FAIR (Joe Emersberger): US Campaign Against Cuba’s Medical Brigades Targets Healthcare, Not ‘Forced Labor’ US government allegations that don’t stand up to minimal scrutiny is the opposite of caring about the working conditions of the doctors. But the sources US journalists usually rely on—the right-wing media in Venezuela, for example—have been doing that for … Continue reading Venezuela- ALBA Weekly 6.12.2020: US Campaign against Cuban Doctors, against Nicaragua’s COVID Success, against Venezuela’s Economy
Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 6.5.2020: Latest Interviews with Carlos Ron, Evo Morales; Venezuela’s Recent Political Victories; The Regime Change Role of WOLA
PopularResistance: The Federal Charges against Four Embassy Protection Collective Members Dropped After a jury refused to convict them in early February, resulting in a mistrial, the prosecutors offered to drop the federal charge and substitute one of most minor local misdemeanor charges in the DC Code, incommoding, basically causing a disturbance. The protectors were facing … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 6.5.2020: Latest Interviews with Carlos Ron, Evo Morales; Venezuela’s Recent Political Victories; The Regime Change Role of WOLA
Enduring Points in Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
Enduring Points in Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism Stansfield smith Here is a selection of the more enduring and valuable quotes and points Lenin made in Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908), a work not often read by Marxists. This book could be summarized as: Materialism responds to the latest incarnation of idealism. Idealism takes different forms. The … Continue reading Enduring Points in Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 5.29.2020: Team Venezuela-Iran face down the US; New anti-Venezuela campaigns start
Venezuela US now charging President Maduro’s Wife, Cilia Flores, and Chavista Adel El Zabayar with drug trafficking Orinoco Tribune: New Human Rights Watch smear campaign claims Venezuela has 30,000 COVID deaths Some international media launched a smear campaign that allegedly there are not 11 deaths, but 30 thousand deaths from coronavirus in Venezuela. The launching … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 5.29.2020: Team Venezuela-Iran face down the US; New anti-Venezuela campaigns start
Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 5.22.2020 Is US Preparing Armed Conflict against Iran & Venezuela over Iran’s oil shipments?
Video: U.S. Sanctions: The Weaponization of the Global Financial System by Sharat Lin . Venezuela Venezuelanalysis: Trump Claims to Have Venezuela ‘Surrounded’ as Iranian Tankers Approach “We’ve got it [Venezuela] surrounded, it’s surrounded at a level that nobody even knows but they know. We are watching to see what happens.” Five Iranian tankers are en … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 5.22.2020 Is US Preparing Armed Conflict against Iran & Venezuela over Iran’s oil shipments?
Statement to be Delivered by Samuel Moncada, Venezuela Ambassador to the United Nations at the Open VTC Meeting of the UN Security Council on “The Situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela”
May 20, 2020 Mr. President, 1. Thank you for convening this meeting to discuss the situation in Venezuela, especially the terrorist attack that took place on 03 May, as well as the looming threat of a new armed attack, in an imminent breach of the peace in my country should the aggression continue. Mr. President, … Continue reading Statement to be Delivered by Samuel Moncada, Venezuela Ambassador to the United Nations at the Open VTC Meeting of the UN Security Council on “The Situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela”
Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 5.15.2020: While 2,030 Cuban doctors and nurses fight pandemic overseas, US declares Cuba “state sponsor of terrorism”
China’s Solidarity Aid to the World During the Corona Pandemic Over 50 years ago the United States would have been leading the international battle to fight the pandemic, as it had done with polio. Today, there is a vacuum that China - and Cuba - are filling. (Cuba has 2,030 medical personnel in other countries … Continue reading Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 5.15.2020: While 2,030 Cuban doctors and nurses fight pandemic overseas, US declares Cuba “state sponsor of terrorism”
China’s Solidarity Aid to the World During the Corona Pandemic
China’s worldwide assistance and medical aid to other countries to combat the coronavirus is barely covered in the corporate press. Instead, the US has ramped up its anti-China campaign to cover up its own incompetence in combating the virus. As John Pilger shows in his Obama era film The Coming War on China, this is no … Continue reading China’s Solidarity Aid to the World During the Corona Pandemic
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