Our governments and societies definitely share responsibility for many things — but without question, Uncle Sam’s heavy hand, which rocked the cradle beginning in 2009, causes 13,000 Honduran children to immigrate every year (70,000 in the entire region).
The president – of a country that systematically and continuously disrespects the right of nations to chart their own path, and a country that subordinates and punishes anyone who won’t submit to the American world view – is talking nonsense, and he believes that everyone will swallow it.
The bipartite composition of the committee [headed to Russia] suggests that its recommendations will be sought both by Democratic candidate Barak Obama and by his rival John McCain, whose positions, according to polls, remain close.
The dilemma of the superpower — that if it intervenes with the entire force of its resources it becomes 'interventionist and imperialist,' and if it does nothing, it becomes the accomplice of a genocide — seems to have been resolved by Barack Obama’s administration with a less idealistic, more practical attitude.
As the demonstrations against racism and police violence wind down, the discussions remain. The media must ask itself whether it helped fuel the violence.
Teachers and students must remain home, and children are being attacked; in the U.S., the fear of Ebola is spreading, strengthened by racism and ignorance.
In the U.S., there is no “holy” Sunday, as one knows it in Germany. All stores are open: When, if not on Sunday, does the average office worker have time to shop and spur consumption?
Fifty years after the beginning of the fight for civil rights, forty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, will the Americans dare to write history and accomplish that which, until very recently, was still unthinkable?