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.
People’s lawyers found the cracks and searched out open spaces in the law.
The centrality of slavery to capitalism is not new, as any serious student of WEB Dubois is aware. “Negro slavery seemed the very basis of American capitalism.”
Even the loss of the equivalent of a full year’s economic production due to US aggression has not broken the people’s will.
Professor Gerald Horne shows that the Dark Continent was Europe, not Africa.
Coleen Rowley: RussiaGate was a public lynching with no evidence; Mumia: our forces are building, marching again; Glen Ford: RussiaGate isn’t over.
