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Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’
5Oct By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Mexico

Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’

Mexico’s left-wing President López Obrador denounced US hypocrisy and reiterated his call to free Julian Assange, calling him a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” At a press conference, AMLO played a WikiLeaks video showing the US military killing civilians in Iraq. ByBenjamin Norton Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) calls for the freedom of Julian Assange in a press conference on June 21, 2022 Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated his call for the freedom of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, whom he called a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” In a fiery speech condemning the US government’s hypocrisy in its persecution of Assange, López...
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Inside Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution: 43 years resisting imperialism
5Oct By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Nicaragua

Inside Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution: 43 years resisting imperialism

Benjamin Norton reports from inside Nicaragua on the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. This mini-documentary explores the Sandinista Front’s emphasis on social programs, popular participation, anti-imperialism, and internationalism. ByBenjamin Norton Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton reports from inside Nicaragua on the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. This mini-documentary explores the Sandinista Front’s emphasis on social programs, popular participation, anti-imperialism, and internationalism. https://www.youtube.com/embed/VSGjkKkNGy0?feature=oembed Transcript LYRICS: This is the war that can’t be held back, the ongoing war against the oppressor. What is the symbol? The people never give in. Never! What is the symbol? FSLN! (Sandinista...
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Nicaragua’s President Ortega: US/EU waging war to stop multipolar world
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Europe, USA

Nicaragua’s President Ortega: US/EU waging war to stop multipolar world

At the Sandinista Revolution’s 43rd anniversary, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said the US and Europe are waging wars to prevent “multipolarity.” Quoting Che Guevara, he added “imperialism cannot be trusted” ByBenjamin Norton (Se puede leer esta nota en español aquí.) In his speech at the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said the United States and European Union are waging wars to prevent “multipolarity on our planet.” Ortega quoted Che Guevara, arguing “imperialism cannot be trusted even a little bit.” He added that dialogue with Washington is “impossible,” because it would be like negotiating with the devil. https://www.youtube.com/embed/D4nHsVRC1Fs?feature=oembed A transcript of some of President Ort...
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US war on China/Russia targets new multipolar world, sabotages global economy: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
5Oct By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
China, Nicaragua, Russia, USA

US war on China/Russia targets new multipolar world, sabotages global economy: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega

Analyzing the geopolitical crisis, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said the US war on China and Russia is an attack on the new world of “multipolarism,” because “North American imperialism is trying to maintain its hegemony at all costs, even at the risk of sinking its own economy.” ByBenjamin Norton In a fiery speech denouncing US imperialism, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega analyzed the shifting balance of power in the world today. He explained that “a new order is being born in the world that buries imperialism, buries the colonialists, and opens the way to a democracy of nations, a multipolarism that is manifesting itself in various ways.” But in an attempt to halt this transition to a multipolar world, the United States is waging war on China and Russia, Ortega c...
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Inside Nicaragua’s free socialized health-care system
5Oct By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Nicaragua

Inside Nicaragua’s free socialized health-care system

An inside look at the free universal health-care system created by Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, which has saved countless lives. ByBecca Mohally Renk Orla receiving free treatment in a Nicaraguan public hospital Se puede leer este artículo en español aquí. (This piece was originally published by the Casa Benjamin Linder.) We’re settling in to our daughter Orla’s sixth night in the hospital. Visiting hours are over and only 10 of the beds in our 32-bed pediatric ward are occupied tonight, down from 20 a few nights ago. The patients – mostly young teens in our room – are tucked in under mosquito nets. Their caretakers – mainly grandmas, aunts and moms – are slouched in chairs or curled around their patients on the beds. A few of us stretch out on un...
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Top Biden official: US would overthrow Colombia’s new left-wing president 40 years ago
5Oct By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Colombia

Top Biden official: US would overthrow Colombia’s new left-wing president 40 years ago

Biden’s top Latin America advisor Juan González threateningly said of Colombia’s new left-wing president, “40 years ago, the United States would have done everything possible to prevent the election of Gustavo Petro” and “sabotage his government.” ByBenjamin Norton The top Latin America advisor for US President Joe Biden, Juan Sebastián González, threateningly said of Colombia’s new left-wing president: “40 years ago, the United States would have done everything possible to prevent the election of Gustavo Petro, and once in power it would have done almost everything possible to sabotage his government.” González is the Western hemisphere director for the US National Security Council (NSC). He previously worked in the State Department and NSC in the Barack Obama administration...
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Catholic Church backed violent coup attempt in Nicaragua, meddles in politics
5Oct By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Nicaragua

Catholic Church backed violent coup attempt in Nicaragua, meddles in politics

Foreign media outlets falsely accuse Nicaragua’s Sandinista government of repressing the Catholic Church, while ignoring its role in supporting a violent coup attempt in 2018 and sponsoring extremist opposition groups. ByBecca Mohally Renk A deluge of misleading stories claiming that the Nicaraguan government has repressed the Catholic Church have appeared in international media, but not one has accurately explained what is happening. In the article below, Becca Renk, who has lived and worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua since 2001, explains the country’s complex relationship with the Catholic Church and shows how Western media reporting is extremely inaccurate. Credit: Casa Benjamín Linder (Se puede leer este artículo en español aquí.) ...
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‘War on drugs has failed’: At UN, Colombia condemns ‘addiction to money and oil’
5Oct By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Colombia

‘War on drugs has failed’: At UN, Colombia condemns ‘addiction to money and oil’

Colombia’s first ever left-wing President Gustavo Petro delivered a historic UN speech declaring, “The war on drugs has failed.” He warned capitalism is destroying the environment, with its “addiction to money and oil,” and called for debt relief for the Global South. ByBenjamin Norton Gustavo Petro Colombia’s first ever left-wing President Gustavo Petro delivered a historic speech at the United Nations declaring, “The war on drugs has failed.” Petro emphasized that drug addiction is a social problem, and cannot be solved with violence and militarization. Rather, he argued, it is a mere symptom of a much deeper problem: the capitalist system itself, with its “addiction to money and oil.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/qbiIoIAgxws?feature=oembed The Colombian leader ...
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Brazil elections: Leftist Lula wins, goes to round 2 against far-right Bolsonaro
4Oct By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Brazil

Brazil elections: Leftist Lula wins, goes to round 2 against far-right Bolsonaro

Brazil’s leftist presidential candidate Lula da Silva won with 48.4% and over 6 million more votes than far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. The Workers’ Party is organizing with social movements in the lead-up to the October 30 runoff election. ByBenjamin Norton Brazil’s left-wing former president Lula da Silva won the first round of the presidential election on October 2 with 48.43% of the vote. Lula got over 6 million more votes than far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who earned 43.20%. This put Lula just shy of the 50% he needed to avoid a runoff, which means the candidates will compete in round two on October 30. To analyze the election results and what they mean for not just Brazil, but also Latin America and the world as a whole, Multipolarista editor Ben Nor...
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‘They don’t value life’: How the US empire dehumanizes its victims, from Indigenous genocide to Vietnam to Palestine
4Oct By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Human Rights, USA

‘They don’t value life’: How the US empire dehumanizes its victims, from Indigenous genocide to Vietnam to Palestine

Imperialists have long claimed their victims “don’t value human life,” from the US Declaration of Independence to American generals waging war on Vietnam, European colonialists committing genocide to Israeli settlers. ByBenjamin Norton A US soldier after burning a house in Vietnam, in 1968 While sharing the text of the US Declaration of Independence, NPR accidentally highlighted racist lines we conveniently never hear from American nationalists, on “the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.— NPR (@NPR) July 4, 2017 This drivel in the US government’s founding document is a centuries-ol...
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