In Episode 153 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg calls out Putin-apologist Medea Benjamin, whose current book tour has happily met with protest from the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign. While Benjamin favorably re-tweets…
…2008. But the Ethiopians left behind chaos. The “official” Transitional Federal Government they were backing up controls little more than a few blocks of downtown Mogadishu. A peace deal that…
…worst in the border cities of Juárez and Tijuana—is reaching spectacular levels redolent of Colombia. In Juårez (and elsewhere across Mexico), severed heads are left outside police stations in chilling…
by Manny Goldstein Take a close look and there is something downright suspicious about former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, now the darling of certain sectors of the radical left. His…
Two left-wing parties in Colombia, the Patriotic March and Patriotic Union, have chosen to support the re-election campaign of President Juan Manuel Santos in the upcoming second round of presidential elections, citing…
…las armas). (Jurist, July 30; Clarín, July 27; Reuters, July 23; BBC Mundo, July 17) Venezuela’s marginal but growing independent left has staked out a position rejecting the constitutional reform but also…
…attack on Constitution (yes, really) CounterVortex, Feb. 26, 2011 See also: ONLY LEFT RADICALISM CAN STOP FASCISM by Laurence Davis, openDemocracy CounterVortex, March 2017 AMERICAN ‘LEFT’ ABETS TRUMP-PUTIN AXIS by…
…home, Latin America may not appear to be its central area of concern. Yet events there are becoming as worrisome to it as those in the Middle East. A left-wing…
Police in Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco found five decomposing human heads left in a sack outside a primary school in the Garita neighborhood on Sept. 26. Handwritten messages were…
…of the Turkish “left” are falling squarely on the wrong side on this question. More from the Times account: The House decision prompted reaction on the streets of Turkey’s capital,…
…a case study in the increasing embrace of right-wing conspiracy theory by the remnants of the American (and global) left. The most useful propaganda device in this ongoing hostile take-over…
…class is still a taboo word in the liberal left and even the radical left when workers and marginalized workers are only good when they illustrate the current party cause…
