New intervention: U.S. seizes Venezuelan president, goes for the oil
The U.S. kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores today has nothing to do with debates over the quality of Venezuelan democracy or about drug-trafficking. It’s about the oil.
U.S. approach to Venezuela is “imperial madness”
“What we have to say is that we do not agree with interventions, especially military ones. That is enshrined in our country’s constitution, and that is what we will continue to defend,” said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum of repeated U.S. threats.
Take action for Cuba this Christmas
It will be a hard Christmas for many Cubans to celebrate this year in the face of shortages of power, food and medicines. Here’s a way to write to Canadian political leaders to ask for additional aid.
The Monroe Doctrine never went away
Beyond all that noise, the United States has a plan for domination of the Americas. Boat strikes and election interference are part of it, but its essence would isolate countries from each other. Resistance grows and is not futile.
The “feminist foreign policy” is dead. What next?
A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.
Labour, development NGOs demand Canada condemn U.S. boat attacks in Caribbean
Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.
“Security for whom?” asks KAIROS after Canada cuts foreign aid
Canada is cutting foreign aid while increasing its military spending. As other rich countries do the same, what does the future hold for “international development?”
Is Trump looking for war in the south Caribbean?
As La Jornada said in an editorial Saturday, the international community must join forces in rejecting Trump’s attempt to plunge Latin America and the Caribbean into war in order to divert attention from his own ineptitude and to hand over vast amounts of money to the military-industrial complex, the only sector whose prosperity apparently interests…
One Nobel winner to another: Why did you ask U.S. to invade Venezuela?
Award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan who calls for U.S. intervention to remove her government provoked consternation, not least from a past recipient of the same award, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
UN approves a ‘Gang Suppression Force’ for Haiti
The UN Security Council has approved a new security force for Haiti. Does this one have any better likelihood of success than any of its predecessors? What might be done differently? My reflection: a bit of a long read….
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