Ben Norton
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The Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA) uniting nations in Latin America & the Caribbean met for its 18th annual summit They condemned the coup in Peru against constitutional President Ped...
The US ambassador in Peru, Lisa Kenna, worked for the CIA for 9 years, and the Pentagon 2 days before the coup against elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo, Kenna met with P...
An academic study by @JasonHickel estimates British colonialism caused 165 million deaths in India from 1880-1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth The global capital...
Several people protesting Peru's US-backed right-wing coup regime have been killed, but the protests are growing So to justify more repression, the police and oligarch media are a...
Many right-wingers who portray themselves as "populists" absurdly claim China is "gLoBaLisT" (as they advocate for war against it) But billionaire capitalist oligarch George Soros...
The US government is strongly supporting the right-wing coup against Peru's elected left-wing President Castillo The State Department says the US "hopes to work with" unelected co...
2 coups in Latin America in 2 days Argentina's Kirchner was banned from office on bogus charges by corrupt judges conspiring with right-wing media oligarchs Peru's Castillo was o...
The US embassy is pushing the narrative that Peru's President Castillo launched a coup. In reality he's victim of a coup by the right-wing-controlled congress Police arrested him....
Argentina's corrupt, heavily politicized judicial system absurdly sentenced left-wing former President and current VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to 6 years in prison on ridicul...
While neoliberal economists misleadingly blame wages for inflation, in reality real global monthly wage growth is negative: it fell to -0.9% in the first half of 2022 Real wages h...
As part of its hybrid war on Nicaragua's Sandinista gov't, the US State Department renewed its travel advisory, to discourage tourism and hurt the economy The reasons given are ab...
Iran says it is abolishing the Guidance Patrol (so-called "morality police"), following protests Western propaganda demonizes Iran and China as "authoritarian," but they actually...