Cuba USA
- The Incubus Of Racism - Charleston And The American Soul
by Mumia Abu-Jamal source Counterpunch A young white man, barely at the age of his majority, walks into Charleston’s most storied Black church and, before he leaves, a new history is written. Attending the Wednesday night Bible study, he sits...
- “we Are All Diosdado Cabello”
by Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada source Punto Final A CubaNews translation. Issued on March 9, President Obama’s Executive Order tagging Venezuela as “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the US national security” and declaring “a national emergency...
- “if I Were Palestinian”
By Eduardo GaleanoSource: ANNCOL Since 1948, the Palestinians have been condemned to live in never-ending humiliation. They can’t even breathe without permission. They have lost their homeland, their lands, their water, their freedom, everything,...
- History
Today will mark history in that America will have it's first black president and it does not matter on what political spectrum you are on, it's historical. Now...time will tell how history will judge the Obama regime? Well...certain things remain...
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Political Prisoners Those who are marching in Cuba to protest against torture are really misguided. I believe they know what they are doing and aiding the enemy. Just a refresher on some of those suffering in Cuban jails. What about Dr. Biscet? Christians?...
Cuba USA
Eduardo Galeano: Bolivar with a Pen
History Written as Poetry
by TARIQ ALI
source counterpunch
source counterpunch
My friend and comrade Eduardo Galeano had been ill for some time, but the treatment worked and he would recover and put pen to paper again. Asked to comment on him in a TV interview with Telesur, this is what I said:
What Bolivar sought to accomplish with sword, Galeano did with his pen. He sought to unite the continent against US imperialism. He spoke for the underground voices of the continent when US-backed military dictatorships had crushed democracy in most parts of South America; he spoke for those who were being tortured; he spoke for the indigenous people crushed by the dual oppression of Empire and creole oligarchs.
Was he optimistic or pessimistic? He was both and often simultaneously, but he never gave up hope. That remained strong all his life. It is visible in his lyrical works on South American history. History written as poetry. It is there in his journalism from La Marcha in the Uruguay of the 60s to La Jornada in Mexico today. He was never dogmatic, always open to new ideas.
After the tyranny of the dictatorships he realised like many others that the armed road had been a disaster, that the Cuban Revolution could not be imitated blindly. The birth of new social movements and the Bolivarian victories were a source of inspiration and concern. He did not want to see old mistakes repeated. Whenever we met this was strong in him. We were not simply defeated by the enemy, he would insist, but also to a certain extent by ourselves.
He wrote with a biblical simplicity, strong and political with history as his teacher.
Read Galeano is what I would advise every aspiring young radical journalist today. Don’t mimic him. Learn from him.
- The Incubus Of Racism - Charleston And The American Soul
by Mumia Abu-Jamal source Counterpunch A young white man, barely at the age of his majority, walks into Charleston’s most storied Black church and, before he leaves, a new history is written. Attending the Wednesday night Bible study, he sits...
- “we Are All Diosdado Cabello”
by Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada source Punto Final A CubaNews translation. Issued on March 9, President Obama’s Executive Order tagging Venezuela as “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the US national security” and declaring “a national emergency...
- “if I Were Palestinian”
By Eduardo GaleanoSource: ANNCOL Since 1948, the Palestinians have been condemned to live in never-ending humiliation. They can’t even breathe without permission. They have lost their homeland, their lands, their water, their freedom, everything,...
- History
Today will mark history in that America will have it's first black president and it does not matter on what political spectrum you are on, it's historical. Now...time will tell how history will judge the Obama regime? Well...certain things remain...
-
Political Prisoners Those who are marching in Cuba to protest against torture are really misguided. I believe they know what they are doing and aiding the enemy. Just a refresher on some of those suffering in Cuban jails. What about Dr. Biscet? Christians?...