Haiti and Cuba in the Caribbean’s Hour of Crisis
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Haiti and Cuba in the Caribbean’s Hour of Crisis

What unites the West Indian islands is not language and culture, but the wretchedness of slavery, rooted in an oppressive plantation economy. Both Haiti and Cuba are products of this ‘peculiarity’, the one being bold enough to break the shackles in 1804, and the other able to follow a 150 years later.

In the Shadow of the Blockade: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune
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In the Shadow of the Blockade: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune

A discussion with seasoned communards of one of Venezuela’s flagship communes about how they see the country’s situation, the solutions they have learned through experience, and the future they project for the besieged country.

Pegasus: Why the Booming Surveillance Software Industry Is Vulnerable to Abuse; Also: Snowden Interview
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Pegasus: Why the Booming Surveillance Software Industry Is Vulnerable to Abuse; Also: Snowden Interview

Evidence suggests that the world’s most sophisticated commercially available spyware has been misused and greater accountability and oversight is needed. Also – Edward Snowden Calls for a Global Moratorium on Spyware Trade.

Pegasus Project Report; Amnesty Int. and  UN Rights Chief Statements; Test for Indian Democracy – Four Articles
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Pegasus Project Report; Amnesty Int. and UN Rights Chief Statements; Test for Indian Democracy – Four Articles

Data Leak Exposes Global Surveillance Plot Targeting Journalists and Dissidents; Amnesty International ‘Fully Stands By’ Project Data; Pegasus Reports Highlight Need for Better Regulation of Spyware: UN Rights Chief; A Test for Pegasus – and Indian Democracy.

Migration Is Not a “Crisis.” It’s Survival and Resistance to Ongoing Genocide.
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Migration Is Not a “Crisis.” It’s Survival and Resistance to Ongoing Genocide.

It is the economic model imposed by the USA on Central America since the 19th century that has displaced millions of Central Americans from their homes. It is the fundamental cause of what, in the USA, is so often referred to as the “crisis” of immigration.