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40K + support Candidate Ana Maria Archila for Lt. Governor

On April 3rd, Ana Maria Archila celebrated more than 40K signatures that her volunteers collected in her bid to be a Lt. Governor. The party was in Terraza 7, a bar in Jackson Heights, a well-known Colombian neighborhood in Queens,…

Anniversary of the Movement Towards Socialism in Bolivia in the midst of political crisis

On 11 March, the departmental leadership of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS-IPSP) in Santa Cruz and Beni made a formal complaint to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to disavow its national leadership, whose president is Evo Morales and vice-president Gerardo…

What caused Sri Lanka’s disaster?

If I say Facebook did it, people would wonder if I have developed some mental illness. If I say IMF and World Bank did it, economics buffs would cringe, because they were not even in the picture, at least directly.…

Statistical deception

We only know bits and pieces of information. The most important things are left in the dark. In developing countries, it often happens that the authorities decide public policies on the basis of the convenience of like-minded sectors. This manipulation…

Blockade of Cuba, is an act of brutality and anti-humanism that has been going on for 60 years now

From 2 to 3 April, a 24-hour virtual media marathon took place to show solidarity with the Cuban people and to demand the immediate lifting of the US blockade against Cuba, an aggression that began in 1962. Hundreds of media,…

Face 2 Face with Anna Dioguardi

On this show, we speak with Anna Dioguardi about a very successful, in-person, outdoor, Queens Power rally. Senator Chuck Schumer attends the rally along with 1,200 residents to address affordable housing and transit issues. Anna is the Director of Community…

Putin VS Gorbachev: Night and Day

Interview with Andrei Grachev, spokesman, and advisor to the last Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev By Cecilia Capanna Putin didn’t get crazy suddenly; his plan has been clear for years. That’s what Andrei Grachev said, spokesman and advisor to the…

No more honeymoon…

As we imagined, the new Chilean government has not had a second’s respite. It has not been able to enjoy even a week of the supposed “honeymoon” enjoyed by the new leaders. Rather, Boric and his team have been thrown…

NYC CopWatchers

Last month, Mayor Adams used one of his press conferences to grossly mischaracterize and criminalize New Yorkers who observe and document NYPD abuse (a practice known as CopWatch). He did this while announcing his rebranding of the NYPD’s notoriously brutal…

Ukraine Update: Possibility Of Putin-Zelensky And Putin-Biden Meeting

Citing Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who leads the Russian delegation to the talks with Ukraine, an Istanbul, March 29 datelined media report said: By Countercurrents Collective Russia has suggested a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian Presidents, Vladimir Putin and…

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