Monthly Archives: December 2022

2022-12-06: News Headlines

TeleSUR, MER (2022-12-06). Secretario de ALBA-TCP sostiene encuentro con António Guterres. telesurtv.net Llorenti resaltó que entre los temas tratados están los bloqueos impuestos a Cuba y Venezuela, así como las medidas coercitivas unilaterales contra Nicaragua.

Anonymous103 (2022-12-05). USAID Boosts Funding To NGO's And Media In CIS countries to reduce Russian influence. southfront.org It is unlikely that Washington will be able to decouple Central Asia from Russia, even though it will falsely paint some trade initiatives as major successes or game changing. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded so-called "democracy support" to the tune of $248 million in the second half of 2022 in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In comparison, the "humanitaria…

Roger D. Harris (2022-12-05). The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, and China (Part 2). orinocotribune.com By Roger D. Harris Dec 1, 2022 | The US has long considered Latin America and the Caribbean to be its "backyard" under the anachronist 1823 Monroe Doctrine. And even though current US President Biden mistakenly thinks that upgrading the region to the "

_____ (2022-12-04). The Volatility Of US Hegemony In Latin America, Part III. popularresistance.org US and other western central banks — what Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega calls the "gang of assassins who control the global economy" — maintained low interest rates for much of the last decade which encouraged countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to take out large loans. | Starting around 2021, interest rates were slowly raised. Coincident, the pandemic hit and developing countries were forced to go further into debt to fund Covid measures and cushion the effects of the economic dislocation. In these volatile times, the value of the US dollar has increased on international markets. | For…

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2022-12-05: News Headlines

_____ (2022-12-04). The Volatility Of US Hegemony In Latin America, Part III. popularresistance.org US and other western central banks — what Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega calls the "gang of assassins who control the global economy" — maintained low interest rates for much of the last decade which encouraged countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to take out large loans. | Starting around 2021, interest rates were slowly raised. Coincident, the pandemic hit and developing countries were forced to go further into debt to fund Covid measures and cushion the effects of the economic dislocation. In these volatile times, the value of the US dollar has increased on international markets. | For…

_____ (2022-12-03). America's Fate: Revolution or Fascism? strategic-culture.org Daniel Lazare is a journalist, author and commentator who specializes in critically analyzing the politics and Constitution of the United States. He has authored several books, including The Velvet Revolution and the Decline of American Democracy. | The Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years exposes the pathological diseased state of US capitalism where private profit is prioritized over public health. Over one million people have died in the US, by far the biggest death toll of any other nation. | By contrast, China's death toll from Covid-19 stands at around 5,200, or 0.5 percent of the US. That shows tha…

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2022-12-02: News Headlines

Brian Berletic (2022-11-30). Malaysia's New Prime Minister: The Impact on US-China Tensions in Asia. thealtworld.com Malaysia's new prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has spent decades in the service of US interests, chairing the IMF in the 1990s and working with the US National Endowment for Democracy ever since. | His opposition party, a street front he has helped lead, and media networks promoting him across Malaysia's information space have all received funding from the US government through the NED. | What impact has Anwar Ibrahim already had on Malaysia's sovereignty and development and what impact will his premiership have on Malaysia's future? | References: | US State Department, Office of the Historian Courses of Ac…

John Perry (2022-11-30). Nicaragua's Inconvenient COVID Victory: Western Media Covered Up Its Success. orinocotribune.com By John Perry Nov 24, 2022 | In Nicaragua, Latin America's third poorest country, people who don't work don't eat. Three-quarters of jobs are in small businesses and farms or the informal economy. So, when its first Covid case was diagnosed on 18 March 2020, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega knew that shutting down the economy would be catastrophic. | He was under pressure from all sides to introduce strict restrictions. Among Nicaragua's neighbours, El Salvador registered its first case on 18 March and imposed a lockdown two days later; Honduras did the same; Costa Rica imposed a lockdown on 16 March and…

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2022-12-01: News Headlines

Brian Berletic (2022-11-30). Malaysia's New Prime Minister: The Impact on US-China Tensions in Asia. thealtworld.com Malaysia's new prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has spent decades in the service of US interests, chairing the IMF in the 1990s and working with the US National Endowment for Democracy ever since. | His opposition party, a street front he has helped lead, and media networks promoting him across Malaysia's information space have all received funding from the US government through the NED. | What impact has Anwar Ibrahim already had on Malaysia's sovereignty and development and what impact will his premiership have on Malaysia's future? | References: | US State Department, Office of the Historian Courses of Ac…

John Perry (2022-11-30). Nicaragua's Inconvenient COVID Victory: Western Media Covered Up Its Success. orinocotribune.com By John Perry Nov 24, 2022 | In Nicaragua, Latin America's third poorest country, people who don't work don't eat. Three-quarters of jobs are in small businesses and farms or the informal economy. So, when its first Covid case was diagnosed on 18 March 2020, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega knew that shutting down the economy would be catastrophic. | He was under pressure from all sides to introduce strict restrictions. Among Nicaragua's neighbours, El Salvador registered its first case on 18 March and imposed a lockdown two days later; Honduras did the same; Costa Rica imposed a lockdown on 16 March and…

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