EEUU y la OEA hacen lobby para liberar a 'presos políticos' en Nicaragua que apuñalan a muerte a sus parejas embarazadas
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-13
Benjamín Norton reporta desde Nicaragua, donde la embajada de los Estados Unidos y la OEA han cabildeado con éxito por…
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EEUU y la OEA hacen lobby para liberar a 'presos políticos' en Nicaragua que apuñalan a muerte a sus parejas embarazadas
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-13
Benjamín Norton reporta desde Nicaragua, donde la embajada de los Estados Unidos y la OEA han cabildeado con éxito por…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/13/eeuu-oea-liberar-presos-politicos-nicaragua/
US House rams through Nicaragua regime-change bill with zero opposition
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-12
Not one member of the House of Representatives spoke up against a bipartisan bill sponsored by hardliners that ramps up…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/12/us-house-sanctions-nicaragua/
Claudia Jones School inaugural event in D.C. features Bill Fletcher, Jr
Jamal Rich, Debra Johnson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-12
WASHINGTON–A group of 120 labor, social justice, international solidarity, and local campaign activists gathered at the Nicaraguan Embassy on Feb. 29 for the inaugural event of the newly founded Claudia Jones School for Political Education. Featuring long-time labor and Black liberation activist Bill Fletcher, Jr., the event was co-sponsored by Trabajadores Unidos de Washington D.C. …
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Media malfunction as Sanders notes positive aspects of Latin American socialism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-03-11
When 60 Minutes (2/24/20) asked Sen. Bernie Sanders about his past support for aspects of Cuba's socialist revolution, as well as for Nicaragua's 1979–90 leftist Sandinista government, Sanders responded by saying he opposes what he described as the "authoritarian" features of the Cuban government, while noting that after the 1959 revolution, Cuba launched "a massive […] | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/11/media-malfunction-as-sanders-notes-positive-aspects-of-latin-american-socialism/
A Case Study of Corporate Media Disinformation
Stansfield Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-11
Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian "election interference," on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China's Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Palestine, among others. One of the longest running media disinformation campaigns has been directed at Cuba, well covered in Keith Bolender's Manufacturing the Enemy: …
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Nicaragua: After two years of crisis, more than 100,000 have fled the country
news.un.org | 2020-03-10
Over the past two years, more than 100,000 people in Nicaragua have sought asylum abroad, reportedly fleeing persecution and human rights abuses, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
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Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2020-03-06
When 60 Minutes ( 2/24/20) asked Sen. Bernie Sanders about his past support for aspects of Cuba's socialist revolution, as well as for Nicaragua's 1979–90 leftist Sandinista government, Sanders responded by saying he opposes what he described as the "authoritarian" features of the Cuban government, while noting that after the 1959 revolution, Cuba launched "a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing?" | News organizations seem…
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Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2020-03-06
When 60 Minutes ( 2/24/20) asked Sen. Bernie Sanders about his past support for aspects of Cuba's socialist revolution, as well as for Nicaragua's 1979–90 leftist Sandinista government, Sanders responded by saying he opposes what he described as the "authoritarian" features of the Cuban government, while noting that after the 1959 revolution, Cuba launched "a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing?" | News organizations seem…
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If Sanders forms a real Alliance with Warren, their Popular Policies Can Win
Antonio Carty | zcomm.org | 2020-03-06
Conventional wisdom is that a presidential candidate should pick an opposite or contrasting vice presidential running mate, to create a perception of a balanced ticket. But this is not a conventional time or race, Bernie is offering a clear and practical progressive choice to fix the USA. So his running mate needs to be a Read…
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WASHINGTON—A group of 120 labor, social justice, international solidarity, and local campaign activists gathered at the Nicaraguan Embassy on Feb. 29 for the inaugural event of the newly founded Claudia Jones School for Political Education. Featuring long-time labor and Black liberation activist Bill Fletcher, Jr., the event was co-sponsored by Trabajadores Unidos de Washington D.C. …