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The self-styled masters of the world, the United States of America, yesterday vetoed another UN resolution calling for a “ceasefire” in Palestine, timetabled by the United Arab Emirates. “If adopted, the resolution would also have requested the immediate and unconditional…

For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often expressed their love for him. The media establishment kept swooning over one of the worst war criminals in modern history.…

Leticia Ortega de Ceballos lives 170 kilometres away from downtown Los Angeles (henceforth, LA). She told “Counter Punch” that she sleeps in her car so she can work two cleaning jobs: one at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, the other at…

Globalization has also brought about the regular consumerist  Black Friday, which fall on the day following the all-American holiday of Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November. Initially characterized by queues in front of shops which reduced prices due to…

The extensive political and economic sanctions imposed on the Republic of Cuba since 1960 up to date violate international law. These include, above all, Articles 2(4) and 2(7) of the UN Charter on the protection of sovereignty, self-determination and the…

On 7 November 2023, the US State Department released a statement that had a provocative title, ‘The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America’. The note argued that the ‘Russian government is currently financing an on-going, well-funded disinformation…

On November 7, the Reuters news agency released a communiqué from the US State Department under the title “The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America”. In the text released, it is intended to involve the international news…

Voted out: 187 of the 193 member states of the United Nations are calling for an end to the US blockade against Cuba. The USA and its ally Israel are completely isolated. With an overwhelming majority of 187 votes in…

After the so far unsuccessful initial project to corner, hang and destroy Russia (turning it into the next Ukraine) and after the final transformation of Western Europe into a colony, the US government, for decades now controlled by transnational corporations,…

It has been 10 years since the revelation that former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and former German head of government Angela Merkel were being spied on by the US National Security Agency (NSA). Such was the annoyance that President Rousseff,…