By Lucas Koerner on December 10, 2019 In our brave new age of hybrid warfare, corporate media play the role of ideological heavy artillery within the arsenal of Western imperialist powers. Day in and day out, “reputable” establishment outlets bombard progressive and/or anti-imperialist governments in the Global South with endless salvos of smears and libelous … Read More
US Empire vs. Latin America: A Year in Review 4:00-5:30 pm – Room 312 Howard Zinn Book Fair, December 8, 2019 City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus 1125 Valencia Street, San Francisco With the Trump administration’s renewed emphasis on imposing the Monroe Doctrine to the Empire’s so-called “backyard,” the peoples of Latin America and … Read More
By Roger Harris and Roger Stoll, Task Force Board members In 2018, National Security Advisor John Bolton invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, claiming all territory south of the Rio Grande as the US “backyard”; in 2019, the dispossessed revolted against this barbarism of imperialism and neoliberalism. The Andean Nations: US sanctions against Venezuela began in … Read More
November 21, 2019 The Task Force on the Americas (TFA) condemns the US-backed military coup against the democratically elected government of Bolivia. We support the efforts of the Bolivian people to restore constitutional order and return President Evo Morales to office. We call on the community of nations to refuse to recognize the coup government … Read More
Meet Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers and David Paul who each face one-year prison sentences and $100,000 nes based on the spurious charge of “interfering with government operations.” These courgeous Embassy Protectors occupied the Washington, D.C. Venezuelan Embassy for 34 days while the Trump administration had appointed its own”president” of Venezuela in the course of its … Read More