Lawyer beat oil giant in court, but now faces jail and millions in fines
From 1964 to 1990, Texaco (later absorbed by Chevron) dumped 16 billion gallons of toxic waste in Ecuador’s Amazon. The...
UN human rights chief still won’t state the obvious. US sanctions on Venezuela are murderous.
On 21 June, UN high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet expressed “concern” about US sanctions on Venezuela: I am...
Trampling Assange’s rights could come back to bite Ecuador’s president, says ex-foreign minister
Guillaume Long is a former Ecuadorian foreign minister. And in a new interview for Counterpunch, he has explained why Ecuador’s...
As Venezuela coup falters, US refuses to back its chosen ‘president’ over foreign investors
A Venezuelan opposition economist, Francisco Rodríguez, dropped a few bombshells in his weekly “LatAm this week” report, suggesting that the...
Report finds that US sanctions killed 40,000 people in Venezuela between 2017 and 2018
Prominent US economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs have just published a paper that estimates US sanctions to have killed...
Amnesty International still doesn’t recognise Chelsea Manning as a Prisoner of Conscience
In 2013, Amnesty International (AI) said that it did not recognise Chelsea Manning as a Prisoner of Conscience (POC) because...
Trump’s sanctions kill Venezuelan people. Why can’t UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet ‘fully acknowledge’ that?
On 20 March, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet made a statement about Venezuela. Unfortunately, her statement contained...
Amid Assange’s ongoing censorship, all leftists must learn from Ecuador’s hostile takeover
As Ecuador continues to censor WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a documentary has taken a close look at the government behind...
A human rights commission has just monumentally failed Julian Assange
The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) has declined Julian Assange’s request that it order Ecuador to ease draconian rules...
Conforming to establishment media groupthink could destroy Corbyn
The establishment media in the UK constantly proclaims various 'truths' that all serious people are supposed to accept. Many of...
How Amnesty International is reinforcing Trump’s regime-change propaganda against Venezuela
Amnesty International's reports, by their nature, require readers to trust their honesty and impartiality. But there is ample reason not...
Blistering new report skewers Amnesty International over its claims about Nicaragua
The US-based Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) and UK-based Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group (NSCAG) have produced a detailed response...
Venezuela gets foreign aid with Maduro’s consent. Canadian state media is ‘comfortable’ denying it.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which is owned by the Canadian government, ran a Venezuela-related news article on 8 February. It...
Shami Chakrabarti really should re-evaluate her ‘trusted sources’ on Venezuela
On 3 February, Shami Chakrabarti told Sky News: “when I’m not an expert in a particular region like South America,...
Did Venezuela’s president really ‘steal’ the 2018 election from an unknown who didn’t run?
A Reuters news article on 1 February said that the US, Canada and several Latin American governments claim Venezuelan president...
The most unforgivable Western lie about Venezuela: that it has a ‘caged’ media
The idea that Venezuela has a "caged" media has to be one of the most unforgivable pieces of Western propaganda...
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