2019-08-20: News Headlines

James Phillips (2019-08-20). Calm and Conflict: a Dispatch From Nicaragua. counterpunch.org I've lost count of how many times I've been in Nicaragua, beginning with almost two years in the country during the Contra War of the 1980s. This month, I spent another nine days in the country. Here are some of observations "from the field." Things are calm in Nicaragua in some ways. There is little More