More than 100 Honduran and international human rights and social justice groups have thrown their support behind a newly launched independent investigation, led by international legal experts, into the murder of .
US imperialism
Demonstrators gathered on November 2 in the Colombian capital of Bogata and the US capital, Washington DC, to simultaneously protest outside the International Finance Corporation, the private lending arm of the World Bank, against the shares it holds in Canadian mining company Eco Oro Minerals Corp.
The company鈥檚 sole asset is a mining concession in one of Colombia鈥檚 high altitude wetlands, known as the paramos, which provides fresh water for millions of Colombians, the Center for International Environmental Law said in a statement.
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte鈥檚 statement declaring his intentions to 鈥渟eparate鈥 from the United States in both military and economic relations should be welcomed, but it鈥檚 easier said than done. Hence the president鈥檚 constant 鈥渂acktracking鈥 on his statements.
Given the president鈥檚 inconsistency, the question is posed: What does it mean to be an anti-imperialist government today? And is lining up with China (and to a lesser-extent Russia) an anti-imperialist positioning?
The US has announced it will continue giving millions of dollars in military funding to the Honduran government, despite the high-profile targeted assassinations and other human rights abuses documented this year in the Central American nation.
The decision was taken by the US Department of State on September 30. It was justified to Congress on the grounds that Honduras 鈥渉as taken effective steps to meet the criteria specified in the Fiscal Year 2016 appropriation legislation.鈥
During a debate in Miami earlier this year between the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders came out against the Monroe Doctrine.
This doctrine dictates that the United States government could intervene throughout the hemisphere and overthrow whatever government does not suit Washington.
The images and accounts of Haiti鈥檚 devastation following Hurricane Matthew鈥檚 passage on October 4 are gut-wrenching. The death toll is in the hundreds and continues to rise. Entire villages in the country's southwest were obliterated. The response of a Haitian government, left besieged and without resources by decades of foreign plunder, is anaemic. The victims鈥 anguished appeals for help are heart-rending. The United Nations now says 1.4 million people are in need of assistance, urgent and immediate for half of them.
Venezuelan foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez called on the United States to pull out of its military bases across Latin America on October 6.
In a fierce speech, Rodriguez labelled the US military presence across the region as a threat to peace and stability.
鈥淲e denounce the presence of 70 US bases in our region, we have to unite and demand the closing of these bases,鈥 said Rodriguez.
The comments were made while Rodriguez addressed the Latin American Summit of Progressive Movements in Quito, Ecuador.
Israeli white phosphorus attack on Gaza, 2009.
Saudi Arabia is using white phosphorus, a flesh-melting chemical, in its conflict with Yemen, according to social media reports. The US acknowledges that it has supplied the kingdom with the chemical.
Despite the rain, hundreds of people turned out in Seongju County on September 4 for a candlelight vigil for the 54th night in a row. Their message is clear: no to the United States鈥 planned deployment of the THAAD missile defence system, not in Seongju or anywhere in South Korea.
Although it was not deemed worthy of front page coverage in much of the Western media, the horrific attack against a demonstration in Kabul on July 23 should be known about and condemned by the whole world.
More than 80 people from the Hazara minority were slaughtered in the terrorist attack. Their only crime was to assemble in a crowd to peacefully protest against discrimination and demand justice from the corrupt and puppet government of Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has hit out at 鈥渕ounting aggressions鈥 against his government after it was confirmed that a US plane had twice violated Venezuelan airspace.
The US Boeing 707 E-3 Sentry is reported to have illegally entered Venezuela鈥檚 national airspace on May 11 and 13.
Both incursions were detected by Venezuela鈥檚 Bolivarian air force and have sparked rumours that the US might be conducting covert spying operations over Venezuela.
鈥淭his plane has all the mechanisms to carry out electronic espionage,鈥 said Maduro on his television program on May 17.
Photo: Albaciudad.org.
The Venezuelan Supreme Court unanimously ruled on April 11 that a controversial 鈥渁mnesty law鈥 passed by the country's right-wing opposition-controlled parliament is unconstitutional, Venezuela Analysis said the next day.
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