The Central American nation of Nicaragua has been the focus of US interventionism ever since the Sandinista revolution which occurred in 1979. The Biden administration is like its predecessors, committed to undermining the choices of the Nicaraguan people. John Perry is a writer who has contributed to the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and he joins us from Nicaragua to discuss US immigration policies, the RENACER Act and the 222 prisoners recently deported to the United States.
Trump’s ‘peace deal’ between Rwanda and the DRC is a corporate resource grab disguised as diplomacy, rewarding Rwandan war crimes while U.S. investors stake claims to Congo’s coltan mines.
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The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would…
