Book Review: What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five

http://mltoday.com/article/1777-stephen-kimber-what-lies-across-the-water-the-real-story-of-the-cuban-5/28 Stephen Kimber, “What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five” Stephen Kimber has written a book about the Cuban 5 that catches you like a detective story. The book also presents previously unknown information about the case, even for those campaigning for their freedom.  The Cuban 5 are political prisoners … Continue reading Book Review: What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five

Book Review: Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion

https://mronline.org/2013/10/18/smith181013-html/ http://www.torontoforumoncuba.com/international/what-does-democracy-look-like   Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion  By Arnold August Co-Published by Fernwood Publishing (Halifax and Winnipeg, Canada) and ZED Books (London, New York) 2013   For full information: http://www.democracycuba.com Arnold August has written an important book on the developing participatory democracy and peoples’ empowerment in those ALBA countries that form the … Continue reading Book Review: Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion

Political Prisoners in the United States

Leonard Peltier, an activist in the American Indian Movement, whose goal was to organize the native American communities to stand up for their rights. In a Cointelpro style operation, he was sentenced to life for murdering two FBI agents on the basis of fabricated and suppressed evidence. Evidence exonerating Peltier was withheld by the FBI. … Continue reading Political Prisoners in the United States

Loyola Fall 2013 Latin America and Political Repression Film Series

Latin America and Political Prisoners Film Series Loyola University (downtown campus) Corboy Law Center,    room 422 Sundays,     2pm 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago  September 15   Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?   By Saul Landau  2010  85 min Twelve years after five Cubans were arrested in America for espionage, Saul Landau has made a … Continue reading Loyola Fall 2013 Latin America and Political Repression Film Series

Book Review: The Imperialist War on Libya

http://mltoday.com/article/1735-book-review-the-imperialist-war-on-libya/29 In Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya, (Monthly Review Press, 2013. 320 pages) Horace Campbell exposes the role of the NATO countries in the attack, occupation and destruction of Libya. This book provides useful material, given that a segment of the peace movement that opposed to the war on Iraq supported US … Continue reading Book Review: The Imperialist War on Libya

Presentation on North Korea and US War Threats

to Anti-War Committee, Minneapolis  July 27, 2013 http://www.fightbacknews.org/2013/7/29/st-paul-program-threat-war-korean-peninsula Thank you for inviting me for speaking on the DPRK, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, or North Korea, this day, 60 years since the DPRK defeated the US war on their country. We should remember too, yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the rallying cry of … Continue reading Presentation on North Korea and US War Threats

On CANTV: Gay Cuba, The History of Cuba’s Policies Towards Gays

Gay Cuba:  The History of Cuba’s Policies Towards Gays  On CAN TV: Thursday July 4,      9 pm            CanTV 21 Thursday July 11,   11:30pm      CanTV 21 Thursday July 18,   9:00pm        Can TV 21 Friday July 26,         7:00 Pm   … Continue reading On CANTV: Gay Cuba, The History of Cuba’s Policies Towards Gays