(2020-11-04). A Little Recognized and Most Pervasive Form of Racism: The Economic Model of "Global Capitalism" globalresearch.ca According to "racist thinking", certain groups of people innately have inferior characteristics that make them undesirable, unworthy, and dispensable. The purveyors of racist views believe they, in contrast, are superior, exceptionally worthy, and indispensable. | There is a virtually unrecognized form …
(2020-11-04). The Battle Will Come After the Voting is Over. zcomm.org "Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count." — Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1896—1956)…
(2020-11-03). 'The Coming War On China' — Watch John Pilger's Powerfully Relevant Documentary. strategic-culture.org Caitlin JOHNSTONE | "The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable," Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which "In a few years China has become the world's second-biggest economic power," Pilger's introduction continues. "The United States is the world's biggest military power, with bases and missiles and ships covering ever…
(2020-11-03). Powerful Hurricane Eta threatens flooding across Central America. thecanary.co Powerful Hurricane Eta is heading towards Nicaragua's Caribbean coast with potentially devastating winds. | Heavy rain from its storm bands is already causing rivers to overflow across Central America. | The Category 4 hurricane had sustained winds of 150mph, and the US National Hurricane Centre warned that Eta could strengthen further, perhaps reaching Category 5, before making landfall on 3 November. | Authorities in Nicaragua and Honduras have moved people from outer islands and low-lying areas to shelters. Residents scrambled to shore up their homes, but few structures along Nicaragua's remote Caribbean coast…
(2020-11-03). Nicaragua: Category 4 Hurricane Eta Made Landfall in Puerto Cabezas. telesurenglish.net Hurricane Eta made landfall in Puerto Cabeza in Nicaragua with sustained winds of up to 150 miles per hour on Tuesday, while threatening to reach Honduras and other Central American and Caribbean countries. | RELATED: | The Hurricane experienced a rapid intensification and reached maximum sustained winds of 134 miles per hour. In the next 12 to 24 hours, it is expected to move in a similar direction and decrease its t…
(2020-11-02). Testimonies From The Gloria Quintanilla Women's Cooperative Of Nicaragua. popularresistance.org When a group of campesinas in the community of Santa Julia, Nicaragua founded the Gloria Quintanilla Cooperative in 2008 with the Rural Workers' Association (Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo — ATC), one of their basic rules was that men were not allowed to hurt women. With much struggle, they have rid their rural community of machismo and established a high value on women's work. In collaboration with the ATC and the Sandinista government, the women have fought for and won land titles in their names, their own homes, access to education, improved roads, and most recently, a community water well.