New Atlas (2021-09-03). US vs. China: Where does Vietnam Stand? newatlas.report September 4, 2021 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — As tensions continue to mount between Washington and Beijing, examples continue to abound comparing and contrasting the approaches used by both global powers regarding foreign policy. Another recent example on stark display is the US and China's respective approaches to Vietnam — a nation both countries have …

_____ (2021-09-02). Nicaragua Launches Plan To Fight Poverty And Promote Human Development. popularresistance.org Ivan Acosta is Nicaragua's minister of housing and public credit, with responsibility for key aspects of government planning. In July, he presented the country's new "National Plan for the Fight against Poverty and for Human Development." This builds on the achievements of Nicaragua's Sandinista government since it returned to power in 2007 and sets out how they will continue if Daniel Ortega's government is returned at November's elections. Ivan Acosta is currently subject to personal US sanctions, along with many other Nicaraguan government officials and their family members. | Codepinks's Teri Mattson spoke to…

_____ (2021-09-02). Nicaragua Launches New Plan To Fight Poverty And Promote Human Development. popularresistance.org Ivan Acosta is Nicaragua's minister of housing and public credit, with responsibility for key aspects of government planning. In July, he presented the country's new "National Plan for the Fight against Poverty and for Human Development." This builds on the achievements of Nicaragua's Sandinista government since it returned to power in 2007 and sets out how they will continue if Daniel Ortega's government is returned at November's elections. Ivan Acosta is currently subject to personal US sanctions, along with many other Nicaraguan government officials and their family members. | Codepinks's Teri Mattson spoke to…

John Perry (2021-09-02). Ordinary Nicaraguans Should Guide Progressive Left's Stance. counterpunch.org As elections approach in Nicaragua, there has been a spate of left-wing criticism of Daniel Ortega's government that, to someone living in the country, seems bizarrely out of sync with what most Nicaraguans see as their pressing priorities. A string of opinion polls confirm what my day-to-day conversations tell me: that support for government policies

_____ (2021-09-02). Falling In Love With Your Community. popularresistance.org Today's world is complex and messed up. All the suffering among the great majorities for many people is just one more number while an increasing number of human beings are or feel isolated, depressed and alone, burdened down by the social consequences of decadent capitalism. However, in this hostile context Nicaragua, physically small but morally gigantic, is making real efforts to rebuild the country's neighborhoods as social and political units, a mutual support network based on solidarity.

John Perry (2021-09-02). Ordinary Nicaraguans Should Guide Progressive Left's Stance. counterpunch.org As elections approach in Nicaragua, there has been a spate of left-wing criticism of Daniel Ortega's government that, to someone living in the country, seems bizarrely out of sync with what most Nicaraguans see as their pressing priorities. A string of opinion polls confirm what my day-to-day conversations tell me: that support for government policies

_____ (2021-09-02). Nicaragua Launches New Plan To Fight Poverty And Promote Human Development. popularresistance.org Ivan Acosta is Nicaragua's minister of housing and public credit, with responsibility for key aspects of government planning. In July, he presented the country's new "National Plan for the Fight against Poverty and for Human Development." This builds on the achievements of Nicaragua's Sandinista government since it returned to power in 2007 and sets out how they will continue if Daniel Ortega's government is returned at November's elections. Ivan Acosta is currently subject to personal US sanctions, along with many other Nicaraguan government officials and their family members. | Codepinks's Teri Mattson spoke to…

_____ (2021-09-02). Falling In Love With Your Community. popularresistance.org Today's world is complex and messed up. All the suffering among the great majorities for many people is just one more number while an increasing number of human beings are or feel isolated, depressed and alone, burdened down by the social consequences of decadent capitalism. However, in this hostile context Nicaragua, physically small but morally gigantic, is making real efforts to rebuild the country's neighborhoods as social and political units, a mutual support network based on solidarity.

_____ (2021-09-01). Now That Afghan War Is Over, Close Gitmo—Now. commondreams.org The strong overall support for the landmark package stands in stark contrast with opposition from Republicans and right-wing Democrats.

_____ (2021-09-01). Women In A Housing Cooperative Build Their Own Homes. popularresistance.org Like every other country, Nicaragua needs more affordable housing. | To deal with the shortage, in many places it's trying out community-based solutions, sharing responsibility between the government, the local authority and the families that need better conditions. | It relies on mutual aid: hours of work put in voluntarily by those benefitting from a scheme, to build not only their own houses but those of their neighbours. It's a cooperative that really works. | I talked to two women members of one such group, Yadira Aguirre and Margine Martínez, about their work building houses in their small community in La D…

_____ (2021-09-01). Women In A Housing Cooperative Build Their Own Homes. popularresistance.org Like every other country, Nicaragua needs more affordable housing. | To deal with the shortage, in many places it's trying out community-based solutions, sharing responsibility between the government, the local authority and the families that need better conditions. | It relies on mutual aid: hours of work put in voluntarily by those benefitting from a scheme, to build not only their own houses but those of their neighbours. It's a cooperative that really works. | I talked to two women members of one such group, Yadira Aguirre and Margine Martínez, about their work building houses in their small community in La D…

José A. Amesty R. (2021-08-31). América Latina y el Caribe: Lo popular, poder Popular. globalizacion.ca El termino Popular, Lo Popular, Poder Popular, está en los últimos días como tema referente, debido a algunos casos acaecidos, por ejemplo, en Cuba, en Nicaragua y siempre en Venezuela. Y demás está decir, que Lo Popular es un tema…

Michael Yates (2021-08-31). Save a Space for Lou Proyect, Rebel Against the Status Quo. counterpunch.org Like most of us, he had to earn a living. He labored as a social worker in Harlem, and as a computer programmer at an insurance company, a hospital, on Wall Street, and finally for more than two decades at Columbia University. During this time, he moved steadily to the left, eventually joining the Socialist Workers Party, which he left after eleven years, watching it sink into sectarian irrelevance. He was active in the struggle to end the war in Vietnam. He gave technical support to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the African National Congress in South Africa. He was a steadfast supporter of the Cuban Revolutio…

_____ (2021-08-31). A Meeting With Historical Combatants. popularresistance.org "Slipping through the crowd at a meeting of historical fighters anywhere in Nicaragua, one makes a deep journey into the open veins of the people of Nicaragua and Our America. Because in Nicaragua even under the stones you find history, heroism, conviction and faith that the world can be a better place and that it is possible to change society with the strength of everyone. But it is not just faith, it is concrete experiences of struggle for life and genuine peace."

Michael Yates (2021-08-31). Save a Space for Lou Proyect, Rebel Against the Status Quo. counterpunch.org Like most of us, he had to earn a living. He labored as a social worker in Harlem, and as a computer programmer at an insurance company, a hospital, on Wall Street, and finally for more than two decades at Columbia University. During this time, he moved steadily to the left, eventually joining the Socialist Workers Party, which he left after eleven years, watching it sink into sectarian irrelevance. He was active in the struggle to end the war in Vietnam. He gave technical support to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the African National Congress in South Africa. He was a steadfast supporter of the Cuban Revolutio…

José A. Amesty R. (2021-08-31). América Latina y el Caribe: Lo popular, poder Popular. globalizacion.ca El termino Popular, Lo Popular, Poder Popular, está en los últimos días como tema referente, debido a algunos casos acaecidos, por ejemplo, en Cuba, en Nicaragua y siempre en Venezuela. Y demás está decir, que Lo Popular es un tema…

_____ (2021-08-30). Ordinary Nicaraguans Should Guide Progressive Left's Stance. popularresistance.org Rather than acclaiming a country that is lifting itself out of poverty, it is apparently much more important to judge it against hypocritical Western standards about "democracy" and "human rights" while disregarding the government's need to defend the country's gains against attacks from Washington and elsewhere.

_____ (2021-08-30). Ordinary Nicaraguans Should Guide Progressive Left's Stance. popularresistance.org Rather than acclaiming a country that is lifting itself out of poverty, it is apparently much more important to judge it against hypocritical Western standards about "democracy" and "human rights" while disregarding the government's need to defend the country's gains against attacks from Washington and elsewhere.

Juan Cole (2021-08-29). Biden got 117,000 Afghans Out: Contrast that Time Trump Abruptly Withdrew Troops from Syria and refused to Help Kurdish Allies. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Richard N. Ojeda, an Army vet and former West Virginia state representative tweeted out an observation that I would like to reinforce: I don't remember Donald Trump flying one Kurd to safety. He let Turkey slaughter them. They were our allies that served side by side with our troops. Where …

_____ (2021-08-29). Contrasting US Withdrawal From Afghanistan With Trump's Abrupt Departure From Syria. commondreams.org Raj Patel's new film follows one Malawian activist's efforts to bring the immediacy of climate change to the U.S.

New Atlas (2021-08-29). Afghanistan: Chinese Reconstruction vs. US Sanctions. newatlas.report August 29, 2021 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — Beijing now has a key opportunity to demonstrate the stark contrast between its brand of foreign policy and Washington's through its own plan to aid in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. A Global Times piece titled, "China to offer 'genuine' aid in Afghanistan's economic reconstruction amid chaotic transition," in title …