Archives for julio 2019

Una profecía autocumplida: la política de Trump en Oriente Medio podría llevar a los hutíes de Yemen a las manos de Irán

Dado que tanto Estados Unidos como Arabia Saudita continúan librando una guerra e imponiendo bloqueos económicos tanto a Yemen como a Irán, es probable que la alianza política de los hutíes con Irán contra sus enemigos comunes crezca, convirtiendo los temores tanto de Arabia Saudita como de Arabia Saudita. Estados Unidos en una profecía autocumplida.

Yemen Houthi origins

SANA’A, YEMEN -- Leaders of Yemen's Houthi (Ansar Allah) movement traded barbs with U.S. President Donald Trump this week after the president made remarks renewing his support for the Saudi-led coalition war and expressed a desire for Iran to “get out of Yemen.”  On Tuesday, the U.S. president said during a White House cabinet meeting that “a

“The US Got Scared” Voices of the Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras

Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup – and the Neoliberalism it brought with it – have impacted their country.

Honduras Coup

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS -- MintPress News went to Honduras and spoke with a number of leaders of the Honduran resistance amid a 66-day uprising over a neoliberal austerity deal reached between the government as the country marked the 10-year anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Last Thursday, the Honduran government passed a privatization

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case

Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day equivalents of organized crime.

Roy Cohn Jeffrey Epstein Rosenstiel feature photo

Despite his “sweetheart” deal and having seemingly evaded justice, billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested earlier this month on federal charges for sex trafficking minors. Epstein’s arrest has again brought increased media attention to many of his famous friends, the current president among them.  Many questions have since been

Quién mató a Oscar y Valeria: la historia incómoda de la crisis de los refugiados

La "violencia" supuestamente aleatoria y las guerras de la droga en El Salvador deben verse dentro del contexto político del intervencionismo estadounidense mal orientado. Si no fuera por tales intervenciones violentas, Oscar, Valeria y millones de personas inocentes todavía estarían vivos hoy.

Valeria Ramirez feature photo

History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well  The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-US border, cannot be

Las raíces del mal: el grupo de colonos israelíes de derecha acusa a los palestinos de robo de tierras

Los grupos de colonos israelíes están dando vuelta a la narrativa israelí-palestina, acusando a los palestinos de intentar robar ilegalmente tierras en el área C de Cisjordania.

Khan al-Ahmar Area C feature photo

Jerusalem -- In a move designed to shock Israeli settlers in the West Bank into action, activists from the right-wing settler organization “Regavim” hung Palestinian flags along the main West Bank settler roads last week.  Regavim claims that there is a Palestinian take over of Area C and that the Israeli government is not doing enough to fight

Buscar nuevas rutas para la entrega de petróleo Arabia Saudita refuerza su control sobre el este de Yemen

Arabia Saudita está consolidando su control militar en la provincia de Al-Mahrah, en el este de Yemen, con la esperanza de utilizar el área para un oleoducto que evitaría el Estrecho de Ormuz.

Al-Mahrah protest feature photo

AL-MAHRAH, YEMEN -- "The Saudi forces must leave all our townships and villages from the coast to the desert," Ahmed Balhaf, a resident of Yemen’s eastern al-Mahrah province told a cheering crowd gathered to protest the presence of Saudi troops in Yemen. The demonstrations were part of a series of protests spread across six cities in al-Mahrah,