Jim Hodgson

Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.

Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.

Open Letter Urges Preservation of El Salvador's Historic Ban on Metals Mining - Institute for Policy Studies 153 faith-based organizations from 25 countries call upon the Salvadoran government to reject metals mining projects that would threaten Salvadoran communities.

Faith communities send open letter urging preservation of El Salvador’s historic ban on metals mining

The Human Cost of El Salvador's Gang Crackdown Former inmates recount arbitrary arrests and months of torture, while families of current detainees demand answers

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The Conservative "Multiverse" Attack on Canada At a time when global instability is rising, you would think that it would be patently obvious that Canada’s longstanding tradition of international engagement matters more than ever.

Charlie Angus denounces conservative attacks on Canada’s multiculturalism, "multi-genderism" and multilateralism.

Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving US sentence after drug trafficking conviction President Donald Trump said he will grant a pardon to former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking an...

As Hondurans head to the polls Sunday, Trump says he will grant a pardon to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.

Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power Trump endorsed the nominee of the right-wing party, while pledging to pardon its most recent president, who sits in U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.

Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power

The “feminist foreign policy” is dead. What next? A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.

A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.

Was the Pentecostal Boom in Latin America a CIA Psyop? Capitalism, Protestant Missions, and the War on Liberation Theology

Not in every instance, but this is pretty much what happened.

How to topple Elliot Abrams’ delusion: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK

Michelle Ellner: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela open.substack.com/pub/codepink...

70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' | Common Dreams "It should come as no surprise by now that the president who campaigned on keeping the US out of wars and then promptly bombed Iran has now found another conflict in which to embroil the country."

70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' www.commondreams.org/news/america...

Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths At Sea; Hundreds Of Thousands By Sanctions - PopularResistance.Org Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls Operation Southern Spear. On Oct...

Roger Harris in Popular Resistance: The United States combines open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives. #SanctionsKill #HandsOffVenezuela

It's only a "worsening security situation" because of U.S. threats against Venezuela. #HandsOffVenezuela #PeaceNow

At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row. Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.

A brilliant, heart-breaking story:
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.

The Quiet Plot To End Progressive Government In Honduras - PopularResistance.Org Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean grabs the headlines, while quieter moves to destabilize other progressive Latin American governments go unnoticed by corporate media. A key case is a plot th...

Economist Jeffrey Sachsnotes that regime change is a “core tool of US foreign policy.” The overt military attacks on Venezuela and the more covert ones planned for Honduras are part of the same imperial game plan. popularresistance.org/the-quiet-pl...

Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.

Canadian organizations with decades of experience and partnerships in the Americas sent a letter to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social, @manindersidhu.bsky.social, Minister McGuinty urging them to protect the rule of law, sovereignty and security in Latin America and the Caribbean. bit.ly/3K03kv9

“You Have Arrived in Hell”: Venezuelans Sent By U.S. to El Salvador Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse 252 Venezuelan immigrants in the United States were flown to El Salvador in the dead of night and indefinitely imprisoned at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center. The det...

Noah Bullock, executive director of El Salvador’s human rights monitor, Cristosal, speaks about the human rights abuses and torture in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT):
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Herman Göring Is Having a Moment Herman Göring is having a moment.

Charlie Angus noticed what Anand said in response to Trump’s violence. (Read all the way to the end.)

"Regime change” in Venezuela is a euphemism for U.S.-inflicted carnage and chaos Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

As we watch with horror the U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean and threats against Venezuela, CodePink provides an excellent summary of past U.S. regime change disasters.

“Security for whom?” asks KAIROS after Canada cuts foreign aid Canada is cutting foreign aid while increasing its military spending. As other rich countries do the same, what does the future hold for "international development?"

Canada is cutting foreign aid while increasing its military spending. As other rich countries do the same, what does the future hold for "international development?"

Day One COP30 Underway

Rev. Emilie Smith’s reflections on Day One of #COP30. She is in Belem with the Latin American ecumenical justice group SICSAL.

America is a Banana Republic El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.

It's in the realm of Latin American historical novels that Chris Hedges finds apt description of the space Trump occupies in the public imagination.

Zohran Mamdani: a victory for the global left In an age of resurgent fascism, the left can fight back and win

Zohran Mamdani: a victory for the global left
He won over half the vote, defying the opinion polls, and he is the first mayoral candidate to win over a million votes since John Lindsay in 1969.

The Caribbean’s Zone of Peace Under Threat: A Conversation with David Abdulah A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region.

A Conversation with David Abdulah: A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region.
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BILLIONARIES FOR CUOMO, WORKERS FOR MAMDANI THAT SAYS IT ALL

BILLIONARIES FOR CUOMO, WORKERS FOR MAMDANI
They say Mamdani lacks experience. But experience in what? In managing a city that works only for the rich? In balancing budgets on the backs of the poor?

The New Gunboat Diplomacy Also: Farmers can’t take it anymore. Graciela Iturbide: photography and the interpretation of reality. More books by women, demanded of the FCE. The 13 years that changed the course of Chichén Itzá.

The New Gunboat Diplomacy
La Jornada Internacional looks at Trump's revival of 19th century gunboat "diplomacy" in the Caribbean and Latin America. Excellent summary in English of what's really going on.

Canada’s Heroic Delusion — The Dial
The country’s 40-year-ago embrace of free trade with the U.S. has come back to haunt it.

How To Kill Subversives and Get Away With It Could US complicity in war crimes in countries like Colombia offer a playbook for domestic repression?

US participation in suppressing opposition in Colombia is a cautionary tale about potential for repression in the US itself: “Could Trump, or...Stephen Miller, employ armed proxies, including right-wing militias...to target leftist 'subversives' at home?”
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Is Trump looking for war in the south Caribbean? As La Jornada said in an editorial Saturday, the international community must join forces in rejecting Trump's attempt to plunge Latin America and the Caribbean into war in order to divert attention from his own ineptitude and to hand over vast amounts of money to the military-industrial complex, the only sector whose prosperity apparently interests the U.S. president.

As La Jornada said in an editorial Saturday, the international community must reject Trump's attempt to plunge Latin America and the Caribbean into war in order to divert attention from his own ineptitude and to hand over vast amounts of money to his military-industrial complex.

The U.S. Isn’t Even Bothering With Its Usual Lies to Sell Its Regime Change War in Venezuela Selling the lies of the Iraq War took months. With Trump and Venezuela, there’s no pretense of anything other than regime change.

The U.S. Isn’t Even Bothering With Its Usual Lies to Sell Its Regime Change War in Venezuela
The days of justifying U.S. military intervention anywhere in the world are on their way out. #NoWar
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