2021-07-27: News Headlines

Ben Norton (2021-07-27). Nicaragua's Sandinistas Battle 'Diabolical' US Empire and Poverty on 42nd Anniversary of Revolution. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2021-07-26). Nicaragua Has Had Free Elections Since the Revolution Triumphed. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega recalled that thanks to the Sandinista Revolution the country will hold free elections in November. | RELATED: | "Thanks to our first Constitution, the first free election in Nicaraguan history was held after the triumph of the Revolution. Despite the aggressiveness of the Empire, the people together with the Sandinista National Liberation Front won the first electi…

_____ (2021-07-26). Nicaragua's Sandinistas Battle 'Diabolical' US Empire And Poverty. popularresistance.org Managua, Nicaragua — 42 years after the victory of the Sandinista revolution, Nicaraguans are still celebrating the gains of the leftist movement, and hoping to take the transformative process to another stage. | This July 19, tens of thousands of Nicaraguans flooded downtown Managua, the capital, to show their support for the revolution and the national government that since 2007 has been led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). | An ocean of Nicaraguans filled the streets bearing red and black bandanas, waving FSLN flags, and chanting revolutionary slogans. | The celebration lasted for an e…

Editor (2021-07-26). Nicaragua's Sandinistas battle 'diabolical' U.S. empire and poverty on 42nd anniversary of revolution. mronline.org The Grayzone reports from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life, President Ortega condemns the dictatorial U.S. "empire that wants to dominate all countries," and Vice President Murillo declares poverty an imperialist "crime against humanity."

John Kendall Hawkins (2021-07-26). He's Heavy, He's My Brother. counterpunch.org A joke is a judgement which produces a comic contrast; it has already played a silent part in caricature, but only in judgement does it attain its peculiar form and the free sphere of its unfolding.' — Sigmund Freud, Jokes and Their Relations to the Unconscious (1905) I have long fantasized about starting the world

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