By Fidel Castro Ruz, CubaDebate via Granma. Those countries are attempting to monopolize technologies and markets by means of patents, banks, the most modern and costly forms of transportation, cybernetic domination of complex productive processes, and the control of communications and the mass media, in order to deceive the world.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. When the Palestinian application for full membership in UNESCO comes to the UN Security Council next month, the U.S. will certainly try to scuttle this membership. In doing so, the U.S. will lose all credibility in future Palestine-Israel negotiations.
Continue reading →By Fidel Castro Ruz, Prensa Latina. Two days ago on Friday October 14, Granma and Juventud Rebelde, the Communist Party and Youth League newspapers, published a brave and energetic message from Rene Gonzalez, Hero of the Republic.
Continue reading →By Staff Writers, Space Daily | NASRDA | Stephen Clark, Spaceflight Now. Last month Nigeria launched two satellites, Nigeriasat 2 and Nigeriasat X, used for forestry, mapping, disaster monitoring and security applications. In 2009 South Africa launched SumbandilaSat and last year formed its own space agency.
Continue reading →By Inés Acosta, IPS. Artificial single-species forests are expanding fast in countries of the developing South, fueled by low production costs and incentives from governments, and causing severe social and environmental impacts.
Continue reading →By Richard Manning, Harper’s. The total amount of plant mass created by Earth per year is called the planet’s primary productivity. We humans, a single species among millions, consume about 40 percent of Earth’s primary productivity. We, six billion, have simply stolen the food: the rich among us a lot more than the rest. (English | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, Cuban News Agency, Radio Cubana | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The so-called Mission for U.N. Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH) wants to recast itself as a development mission. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez spoke up in defense of Haitian self determination and against this attempt to turn Haiti into a U.N. protectorate. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “The carrots are cooked!” we cheerfully say in Haiti, to announce when a stew is ready. Dr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is due back home at 8:00 a.m. today.
Continue reading →By President Jean-Bertrand Aristide | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “The problem of exclusion, its solution is the inclusion of all Hatians without favoritism, because tout moun se moun!” (English | French)
Continue reading →Interview of Jean-Bertrand Aristide With Nicolas Rossier, Z Magazine. “The Haitian people who are moving from misery to poverty with dignity should continue to move straight towards that goal. If we lose our dignity we lose everything.” J.-B. Aristide
Continue reading →By Gary Olson, ZNet. Cuban internationalism, initially more military and now medical, is the most compelling large-scale example we have of empathic solidarity.
Continue reading →Interview of President Aristide with Nicolas Rossier. “When we say democracy we have to mean what we say.” Jean-Bertrand Aristide, during his forced exile in South Africa.
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