VIDEO: A Salute to the Honduran Resistance

“THEY ARE SCARED OF US BECAUSE WE ARE NOT SCARED OF THEM”

HONDURAS: Al Giordano Wrong about Zelaya and “Three-Ring Circus”

Al really does need to work himself out of his community organizer mode a bit. After all, what’s going on in Honduras is not about trying to clean up a polluted stream in the community or, for that matter, a workers’ strike for more pay. In the following article, Giordano condemns Zelaya along with Micheletti [...]

VIDEO: Grenada, Maurice Bishop Presente! – A Comrade Pays Tribute

At the opening of the newly christened, Maurice Bishop International Airport on Friday, May 29, Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, paid tribute to his friend and comrade.
PM  Gonsalves told the audience that  the decision to rename the Point Salines International airport after Bishop, was a symbolic gesture that [...]

CUBA: No Visa for Cuban Singer Silvio Rodriguez to Celebrate Pete Seeger’s B’Day in NY

The US State Department failed to issue a visa to Cuba’s premier singer, Silvio Rodriguez, to join Pete Seeger in NY to celebrate his 90th birtday.Shame on the US State Department, once again!  Please see Silvio’s explanation of what happened (or didn’t) below.

Call the State Department and White House to bitch!

U.S. State Department Switchboard: 202-647-4000.
White [...]

FIDEL CASTRO – CUBA: A TERRORIST COUNTRY?

Reflections by Comrade Fidel
CUBA:  A TERRORIST COUNTRY?
Thursday, April 30 was unlucky for the United States. On that day it occurred to them to include Cuba yet again on the list of terrorist countries. Committed as they are to their own crimes and lies, perhaps even Obama himself was unable to untangle himself from that mess. [...]

CUBA (video): To Understand Cuba, Watch “Fidel: The Untold Story”

Estela Bravo’s tremendous documentary, “Fidel:  The Untold Story,” is the perfect instrument for understanding why Cuba and Fidel Castro are loved and admired throughout the world.  As John Maxwell, columnist for the Jamaica Observer, said recently in a column, Fidel kept all of the promises he made to the people.
You can view the film on [...]

HAITI: Lavalas Flexes Its Muscles by Kevin Pina

Lavalas flexes its muscles in Haiti
by Kevin Pina
President of Haiti Rene Preval appears visibly worried as his security detachment far out numbers voters at the polling station where he cast his ballot.
A nearly empty ballot box sits at a polling station in Port-au-Prince on April 19, 2009. Voters overwhelmingly stayed away from the polls after [...]

Eugene Robinson – Shame on You

Eugene Robinson, I don’t know where to start regarding your utterly unnecessary article, “When Slapped, Slap Back.” For some reason, you think it is a good idea to jump on the Republican bandwagon, albeit very temporarily, to hurl insults at Chavez and ding President Obama concerning their interaction at the Summit of the Americas in [...]

Foreign Intervention Won the Venezuelan Elections by Eva Golinger

There is perhaps no better analyst of Venezuela than Eva Golinger, author of the following article.
Foreign Intervention Won The Venezuelan Elections
Author:
Eva Golinger
Years of work penetrating communities and financing “democracy” programs and projects with an anti-socialist vision in the communities of Petare, Sucre Municipality of Miranda State, and Catia, Libertador Municipality in Caracas, and in other [...]

VENEZUELA: Wash Post’s Obsession with Chavez

If you are in the mood to submerge yourself in someone else’s hissy fit, check out this week’s Washington Post editorial on Hugo Chavez, Ally to Kidnappers: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez endorses Colombian groups known for abductions, drug trafficking and mass murder. The subtitle gives you the basic thrust and makes it easy to [...]