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By Jorge Arreaza Montserrat on August 31, 2020
Resumen Latinoamericano
In the Spanish-speaking world, there is a very peculiar children’s song: “Let’s Tell Lies”. Through the hilarious repetition of verses and a catchy melody, there is a succession of absurd situations that delight children. Comedy is an exercise where reality is alienated so that laughter is achieved. The … Läs mer “3/9 – Let’s Tell Lies… ”
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera, on August 26, 2020
A US-sponsored military aggression against Venezuela could take place before the November 3 elections in that country. On August 22, Admiral Remigio Ceballos, chief of the strategic operational command of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB), said that:
– The international intelligence agencies allied to Venezuela inform us that Colombia … Läs mer “28/8 – Venezuela: Aggression in October?”
Una vacuna que enaltecerá el desarrollo de la ciencia en Cuba; que nos situará a la altura de países desarrollados; que rendirá homenaje al Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, artífice principal del sector biotecnológico en el país. Eso será Soberana, el primer candidato vacunal cubano contra la COVID-19 con autorización para empezar los ensayos clínicos
La organización superior de dirección empresarial BioCubaFarma informó la concesión del permiso para iniciar en el país los ensayos clínicos de un candidato vacunal cubano contra la COVID-19, capaz de inducir una potente respuesta inmunitaria ante la infección del virus SARS-COV-2
Autor: Redacción Nacional | internet@granma.cu
Granma, 20 de agosto de 2020 01:08:59
La organización superior de dirección … Läs mer “22/8 – De Fidel Vascós – Cuba más cerca de su propia vacuna contra la COVID-19”
2 agosto 2020
ESTADOS UNIDOS: SENADORES Y REPRESENTANTES ESTATALES PIDEN A GOBERNADOR DE MINNESOTA COLABORACIÓN CON CUBA PARA ENFRENTAR COVID-19
Un grupo de 11 Senadores y Representantes estatales de Minnesota dirigieron una misiva al Gobernador de ese estado comunicando la resolución legislativa que soicita colaborar con Cuba para obtener asistencia y experiencia crucial para los residentes de Minnesota … Läs mer “15/8 – De Fidel Vascós – Senadores Minnesota piden ayuda de Cuba para combatir COVID-19 en EE.UU.”
Om Kubas ekonomiska strategi
Den kubanske ekonomen Fidel Váscos kommenterar
för Svensk-Kubanska Föreningen:
Från 11 mars i år, när det första Covid-19 fallet upptäcktes i Kuba, och fram till 24 juli har 2 478 personer i en befolkning på 11,2 miljoner, visat sig vara smittade. Av dessa har 95 procent redan tillfrisknat. Vi sörjer 87 avlidna. Dagligen … Läs mer “4/8 – Fidel Vascós, kubansk ekonom, om Kubas ekonomiska reformer”
Carta a amigos y amigas en el extranjero
Frei Betto:
Queridos amigos,
¡En Brasil hay un genocidio! Al momento de escribir, 16/7, la Covid-19, que surgió aquí en febrero de este año, ya ha matado a 76 000 personas. Ya hay casi 2 millones de infectados. Para el domingo 19 de julio, alcanzaremos 80 000 muertes. Es posible … Läs mer “4/8 – De Fidel Vascós a eFOLKET – Carta de Frei Betto sobre genocidio COVID-19 en Brasil”
Just like in Crimea in 2014 – “little green men” have entered the streets of Portland, Oregon. They drive around in unmarked vehicles and randomly apprehend people that look like “left wing activists”. Some are just beaten up, some are brought to federal buildings, harassed, registered, questioned, abused, and then released. The “little green men” are all … Läs mer “23/7 – “A Build Up for a Civil War in the U.S.””
Artikeln finn publicerad på den norska sidan Spartakus.
Mens Forsvaret er omgjort til en innsatsstyrke til bruk i NATOs strategi for globalt herredømme, blir forsvaret av Norge i stigende grad outsourcet, Nord-Norge gjort til alliert baseområde, og norske bedrifter nærmest fullintegrert i den amerikanske krigsindustrien.
Fra å være et betydelig invasjonsforsvar, som skulle sikre Norges territorium, har vi … Läs mer “12/7 – Forsvaret er omgjort til en innsatsstyrke til bruk i NATOs strategi for globalt herredømme”
Denna, förvisso kontroversiella, debattartikel har tidigare varit publicerad på den brittisk/US-amerikanska sidan Spiked. författaren heter Paddy Hannam.
It has become increasingly common for commentators to describe Black Lives Matter as a ‘Marxist’ movement. Most such characterisations have been pejorative, intended to discredit the organisation. … Läs mer “10/7 – There’s nothing Marxist about Black Lives Matter”
Artikeln tidigare publicerad på thesis eleven.
This article is a part of the Thesis Eleven online project: Living and Thinking Crisis.
by Göran Therborn
The COVID-19 pandemic operates as a magnifying force to social actors, and as a magnifying glass to social observers. As a magnifying force it has, so far, mainly strengthened pre-existing societal tendencies. But it … Läs mer “7/7 – Opus Magnum: How the Pandemic is Changing the World”
Source: Cubadebate , translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau
By Iroel Sánchez on June 16, 2020
There is a scene in the documentary I am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016) in which the African-American writer James Baldwin is interviewed on ‘70s television and the interviewer asks Baldwin why “Negroes aren’t optimistic, even though there are Negro … Läs mer “19/6 – The System is Rigged for the Rich”
ANC:s tidigare partiledare (1997-2007) och Sydafrikas president (1999-2008) Thabo Mbeki utvecklade i en intervju i SABC (sydafrikansk tv) sin syn på Olof Palmes stöd till motståndet mot apartheidregimen.
Mbeki sa i intervjun att man inom ANC hyst starka misstankar om att den sydafrikanska apartheidregimen låg bakom mordet på Olof Palme.
Han säger också att ANC, som varit regeringsparti … Läs mer “14/6 – Thabo Mbeki, Sydafrikas president 1999-2008, om Olof Palme”
Dear MST friends, comrades and political allies
We hope you are all well and healthy, in the midst of this health, economic, social and political crisis that we face worldwide.
As you may be following, here in Brazil the situation is becoming increasingly critical.
Today, we are the country with the highest daily deaths due to COVID-19 in … Läs mer “6/6 – Ett nödrop från de Jordlösas rörelse (MST) i Brasilien (English)”
I artikeln beskriver och analyserar eFOLKETs Brasilien-korrepondent Göran Kärrman landets politiska situation och Bolsonaro-regimens raskt tilltagande kris.
*****För att förstå vidden av den ekonomiska,politiska och konstitutionella krisen som nu skakar Brasilen – världens åttonde största ekonomi – behöver man gå tillbaka i tiden. När Arbetarpartiets (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) ledare Lula da Silva vann presidentvalet 2002 … Läs mer “4/6 – Brasilien; den politiska situationens bakgrund och färdriktning analyserad”
Vad kan vi förvänta oss de kommande månaderna?
Oscar Figueredo Reinaldo, Abel Padrón Padilla, José Alberto Rodríguez Ávila
2020-05-27
Vetenskap, Coronavirus, COVID-19, statistik, matematik, Hälsa, SARS-CoV-2, Virus
Kuba rapporterar idag 9 nya COVID-19-positiva fall, 10 botade och utskrivna, och inga fler avlidna,
By Atilio A. Boron on May 25, 2020
The arrival of the Iranian tanker Fortune to the great refinery of El Palito in Venezuela has a meaning far, far greater than the quantity of gasoline and other crucial supplies transported in this ship. There are other aspects that are … Läs mer “27/5 – Venezuela Unblockaded”
By Marco Teruggi on May 5, 2020
In Venezuela, Operation Gideon is underway; an incursion of Venezuelan and U.S. mercenaries who aim to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. Several of them have already been arrested and killed in the last 48 hours. The orders come from Washington.
The mercenary action against Venezuela was due to begin on … Läs mer “8/5 – Gideon: the Hidden Plot of the New Failed US Attempt against Venezuela”
By Don Fitz Cuba: From AIDS, dengue, and ebola to COVID-19
April 18, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Preparing for a pandemic requires understanding that a change in the relationship between people is primary and the production of things is secondary and flows from social factors. Investors in profit-based medicine cannot comprehend this concept. Nothing … Läs mer “25/4 – Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19”
Artikeln tidigare publicerad på
internationalviewpoint.org
Monday 6 April 2020, by Ståle Holgersen
Anwar Shaikh argued in the late 1980s that when the economic system is healthy, it rapidly revives from all sorts of setbacks, but when unhealthy, practically anyhing can trigger its collapse. Now, it certainly was not just anything that trigged this round of … Läs mer “10/4 – Against the crisis: The crisis is not an opportunity, it’s the enemy”
Source: Solidaria, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau
By Stella Calloni on March 15, 2020
The coronavirus, a new strain of the already existing one, whose mutation is being investigated has put the world between the solidarity and the misery of a dying system, capable of using the effects of a pandemic to impose a state of terror … Läs mer “16/3 – Pandemics and War Games, Solidarity as an Antidote”
Artikeln är tidigare publicerad på internationalviewpoint.org
1. The fact that the economic slowdown preceded Covid-19 should not lead to denying either the economic impact of the epidemic (interruption of some production processes, disruption of supply chains, sectoral impacts on air transport and tourism, etc.) or the seriousness of the threat it … Läs mer “16/3 – Eight theses on Covid-19”
By Carlos Aznarez from Chile on March 4, 2020
Yesterday was another day of mobilization in several points of the city of Santiago and surroundings. As it happened on the first day of the revolt, in October 2019, the high school students repeated the initiative of “evading” the payment of the subway system. At a predetermined time, hundreds … Läs mer “6/3 – Chile: Regaining Dignity is Priceless”
Artikleln är tidigare publicerad på internationalviewpoint.org
Tuesday 4 February 2020,
by Michael Löwy
I. The ecological crisis is already the most important social and political question of the 21st century, and will become even more so in the coming months and years. The future of the planet, and thus of humanity, will be determined in the coming … Läs mer “5/2 – Thirteen theses on the imminent ecological catastrophe and the (revolutionary) means of averting it”
internationalviewpoint.org
Tuesday 28 January 2020,
by Daniel Tanuro
The expression ‘tipping point’ refers to the point when a system passes from one system of equilibrium to another, the point where it is no longer possible to prevent accumulated quantitative changes from causing a qualitative change. It is used in many different fields, from population studies to climate change, … Läs mer “29/1 – Megafires in Australia: a climate tipping point, live”
eFOLKET-introduktion till den (oöversatta) texteb 24/1 – Closer than ever: It is 100 seconds to midnight, som följer nedan efter introduktionen på svenska.
Det är endast 100 sekunder – 1 minut och 40 sekunder – till midnatt, det vill säga mänskligheten är närmare en utplåning än någonsin tidigare enligt forskarna vid Atomic Bulletin’s Science and Security Board.
I … Läs mer “24/1 – Closer than ever: It is 100 seconds to midnight”
Resumen Latinoamericano
By The Associated Press on January 17, 2020
Diaz Canel in Las Tunas, Photo: Ismael Francisco
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said he does not believe the Trump administration would drop sanctions on the island in exchange for concessions from his government.
The Trump administration says it has been tightening sanctions on Cuba in recent months in … Läs mer “22/1 – Cuban President Says Concessions to US Would Lead Nowhere ”
Nazanín Armanian
Publicerad 13 januari 2020
Nazanín Armanian är iranska, bor i Barcelona sedan 1983, då hon flydde sitt land. Licencitat i statsvetenskap. Hon undervisar på Barcelonas universitet. Kolumnist i spanska tidningar.
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Översättning Eva Björklund
Om nu USA och Irans Islamiska Republik (IIR) har levt ihop … Läs mer “18/1 – Bakgrund: Iran, Irak och USA”
By Atilio A. Boron on January 14, 2019
I just read a very interesting note by writer Peter Koenig about the renaissance and exasperation of barbarism in recent times, and I say exasperation because it has been a constant presence in history, but under capitalism, it took on new and more brutal forms.
The United States is undoubtedly … Läs mer “15/1 – Trump and the Peak of Barbarism”
By Óscar H Avellaneda on January 10, 2020
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano, translation North America bureau
On the night of Wednesday, January 8, social leader Oscar Quintero Valencia was taken from his home and executed in front of his wife. He lived in the village of Los Mangos in Puerto Guzmán (Putumayo), the municipality where social leader Gloria Ocampo … Läs mer “13/1 – In Colombia the Horror Show against Human Rights Continues”