The U.K. embassy in Bogotá has launched an environmentally-focused public relations project while Britain trains the country’s repressive security forces, Matt Kennard reports.
The political violence against India’s left that just occurred in Tripura, a state in the north-east, has become a normal facet of democracy in our times, writes Vijay Prashad.
Author Gore Vidal died nine years ago today. In May 2007, Joe Lauria sat down with Mr. Vidal to discuss empire. Here, published for the first time, is that interview with a great American writer.
Simón Bolívar wrote that the United States “seemed predestined by Providence to plague Americas with miseries in the name of liberty,” Vijay Prashad reminds us.
His victory will be remarkable not only because he is the son of illiterate peasants and his campaign was grossly outspent, but there was also a relentless propaganda attack against him, write Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores.
The targets of Washington’s bullets have been leaders who tried to assert their nation’s economic sovereignty, writes Jeremy Kuzmarov in this review of a new book by Vijay Prashad.