Category Archives: United States of America

Ilan Pappe (Israeli Professor) Israel has chosen to be a racist state with US support

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/28/professor_ilan_pappe_israel_has_chosen

Raymond Suttner, Meaning of freedom always developing (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/suttners-view-meanings-of-freedom-constantly-develop-2014-07-01

Mark Weisbrot, Truth about Venezuela, revolt of the well off not terror campaign

https://portside.org/2014-03-22/truth-about-venezuela-revolt-well-not-terror-campaign

Guardian report of Pete Seeger’s death and his singing This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/28/pete-seeger-dies-aged-94

Esperanda Spalding, We are America. Guantanamo Bay protest

http://thejazzline.com/news/2013/11/esperanza-spalding-we-are-america-guantanamo-bay-protest/

CIA involvement in Mandela arrest in 1962

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/one_of_our_greatest_coups_the

His Day is Done. A tribute poem to Nelson Mandela by Maya Angelou

Pallo Jordan pays tribute to Nelson Mandela

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/negotiator-who-outmanoeuvred-pw-1.1618656#.UqSWPqXH1SU

Le Monde diplomatique on Louisiana’s profitable prisons

http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/11usprison

Le Monde diplomatique on implications of US/ Iran’s thaw in relations

http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/01iran

US continued penalisation of Cuba under Obama

http://portside.org/2013-11-09/keeping-us-dark-about-latin-america

US drone attacks met with little world concern

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/31/these_drones_attack_us_and_the

International relations appear indifferent to detention of Tokyo

Department of International Relations and Cooperation do not seem very worried about Tokyo Sexwale’s detention at JFK airport. Continue reading →

US use of drones as preferred mode of attack, contravenes international law

Drones will return to bite Obama in the US

Noam Chomsky, The Obama doctrine

http://portside.org/2013-10-07/obama-doctrine

Bhaskar, Sunkara, On the left in the recent German elections

http://portside.org/2013-10-05/german-lessons

Victor Jara’s last song, translated by Joan Jara, Read by Adrian Mitchell

http://portside.org/2013-10-05/victor-jaras-last-song

Peter Beaumont, Vietnamese General behind victories over French and US dies aged 102

http://portside.org/2013-10-05/vietnamese-general-behind-victories-over-french-and-us-dies-aged-102