(2023-03-29). Bad Faith UN Report On Nicaragua Whitewashes Violent US-Backed Coup. popularresistance.org Abuse and weaponization of the United Nations system by the United States and its vassal governments to both mislead and intimidate the rest of the world have been a feature of international relations since the very founding of the United Nations during the time of the Korean War. In recent years, that situation has deteriorated to the point where demonization campaigns promoted by the US and its allies have made the UN system complicit in atrocities. Various UN institutions have been abused in this way. | As The Grayzone has methodically detailed, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has prod…
(2023-03-29). 'We're Not Gonna Fix It,' Says GOP Congressman After Nashville Mass Shooting. scheerpost.com 
Rep. Tim Burchett's response to the leading killer of U.S. children stands in stark contrast to his zeal for banning drag shows: "Dadgummit, we don't put up with that crap in Tennessee."
(2023-03-29). Biden Wants More Border Patrol Than MAGA Republicans. truthout.org President Biden recently tweeted in support of "even more resources to secure the border," contrasting himself with "MAGA House Republicans" who are proposing to "slash funding for border security." He's positioning himself to the right of the more explicitly xenophobic and far-right "MAGA" branch of the Republican Party and their fear-mongering about fentanyl. The Biden administration's record… |
(2023-03-29). Bad Faith UN Report On Nicaragua Whitewashes Violent US-Backed Coup. popularresistance.org Abuse and weaponization of the United Nations system by the United States and its vassal governments to both mislead and intimidate the rest of the world have been a feature of international relations since the very founding of the United Nations during the time of the Korean War. In recent years, that situation has deteriorated to the point where demonization campaigns promoted by the US and its allies have made the UN system complicit in atrocities. Various UN institutions have been abused in this way. | As The Grayzone has methodically detailed, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has prod…
(2023-03-29). 'We're Not Gonna Fix It,' Says GOP Congressman After Nashville Mass Shooting. scheerpost.com Rep. Tim Burchett's response to the leading killer of U.S. children stands in stark contrast to his zeal for banning drag shows: "Dadgummit, we don't put up with that crap in Tennessee."
(2023-03-29). Biden Wants More Border Patrol Than MAGA Republicans. truthout.org President Biden recently tweeted in support of "even more resources to secure the border," contrasting himself with "MAGA House Republicans" who are proposing to "slash funding for border security." He's positioning himself to the right of the more explicitly xenophobic and far-right "MAGA" branch of the Republican Party and their fear-mongering about fentanyl. The Biden administration's record… |
(2023-03-29). Renowned Chicana muralist Judy Baca receives National Medal of Arts. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joseph R. Biden presented the 2021 National Medals of Arts in conjunction with the National Humanities Medals on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in a late afternoon live-streamed ceremony in the East Room of the White House. Among the recipients was radical Los Angeles-based artist and muralist Judy Baca. National Endowment for …
(2023-03-30). American Plan 2.0: The Global Fragility Act Unfolds. libya360.wordpress.com Kim Ives People walk past an abandoned police station in the Drouillard neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 7, 2022. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times) The Global Fragility Act may wear the humanitarian garb of USAID, but it is fundamentally a military deployment. In the late 1980s, after the fall of Jean—Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier…
(2023-03-29). China Tells Taiwan President Not to Meet With US House Speaker as She Heads to US. news.antiwar.com China on Wednesday warned that it would respond if Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) while she visits the US as part of a trip to Central America. Tsai departed for her trip to Guatemala and Belize, two countries that maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taipei. On the way there, …
(2023-03-29). China Media Group establishes Honduras bureau. america.cgtn.com 
Following the formal establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Honduras, China Media Group has established its first ever bureau in the Central American country, with more in-depth coverage of an often-misunderstood region soon to follow.
(2023-03-29). Honduras looks forward to greater economic ties with China. america.cgtn.com 
Honduras has established diplomatic relations with China, in a move that cut more than eighty years of ties with Taiwan. Alasdair Baverstock is in the country's capital, and sat down with a member of President Xiomara Castros' cabinet, to ask what the Central American …
(2023-03-29). The future of El Salvador's security. america.cgtn.com 
El Salvador is cracking down on gangs. The full-fledged government effort started a year ago, and the successes are echoing around Central America. But along with progress come concerns about protecting civil rights.