There was great discontent in Latin America when the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, said to his country’s Congress that Latin America is “the backyard of the United States.” The comment was aggravated given the context that the United States had not recognized the constitutional and elected government of Nicolas ...

Cambio Newspaper,  March 27 and 28, 2013 Because of their hegemonic origin, the current U.S. foreign-aid programs still bear the mark of paternalism Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti* On March 3, 2013, the U.S. Department of State issued its annual report to the nation’s Congress on the efforts made by “key” countries in ...

Thanks to Chavez, other peoples were able to compete in a democracy against the interests of looting, to have access to government,  and to initiate profound processes of decolonization… Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti * When history shows that even the liberators who now are universally recognized, like Simon Bolivar, were resisted while ...

Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti At the dawn of the 21th Century, humanity undergoes a renewal of understanding that is manifested in the use of reason more that of dogma. The advance of science has lighted gray areas in which beliefs were the only way to “explain” life. Today we see people in ...

Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti It’s no secret that USAID functions as one of the counter-revolutionary mechanisms of the United States. The proofs against it are abundant, but, despite reiterated complaints, it has not been easy to expel it from the countries affected. One gets the impression that the agency works like ...

Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti July 28, 2012 As hard as we try to expose all of the mechanisms of interventionism, these are so diverse that some of them slip through our fingers after we have had the evidence in hand. This is the curious story of how, after more than a year, ...

Muhammad Sahimi is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and holds the NIOC Chair in petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California. He is also lead political columnist for the website PBS/Frontline/Tehran Bureau. His recent piece, "Intervention Proponents Try to Scuttle Nuclear Talks with Iran," takes media figures ...

June 26, 2012 - Socialist Party USA Presidential Candidate Stewart Alexander condemns the removal of the democratically elected President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo. Alexander describes the removal by Congressional impeachment as an illegitimate coup. He calls upon the Paraguayan Congress to restore President Lugo and condemns US President Barack Obama ...

Rubén Costas, Governor of Santa Cruz, Bolivia The charges that opposition politicians heap on the authorities lack reliability and transparency, as their principal –and unsuccessful– goal is to undermine the credibility of the government, in a desperate effort to recover lost ground.       Cambio Newspaper, June 11, 2012  By Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti ...

  Mr. Brasch’s recent piece on Memorial Day read like an apologia to the Obama administration’s Afghanistan policy, and unfortunately did not seize the opportunity to engage in critical inquiry on an important issue. How might we celebrate Memorial Day in such a way as to improve our critical understanding of ...