Document exposes new US plot to overthrow Nicaragua’s elected socialist gov’t
A newly released document exposes a US government operation to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government in Nicaragua.
View ArticleDocument exposes new US plot to overthrow Nicaragua’s elected socialist gov’t
A newly released document exposes a US government operation to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government in Nicaragua. The plot is administered by the United States Agency for...
View ArticleNicaragua and the Western ‘Human Rights ‘Industry
John Heartfield’s famous photomontage of a newspaper cabbagehead had the caption “Whoever Reads Bourgeois Newspapers Becomes Blind and Deaf!” The caption is even more true now as the 21st Century moves...
View ArticleHow US govt-funded media fueled a violent coup in Nicaragua
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton investigate how the United States funded violent far-right groups and media outlets that published fake news to fuel a 2018 coup attempt against Nicaragua’s Sandinista...
View ArticleNicaragua’s Benedict Arnolds – political opposition as organized crime
Ever since they lost badly in the 2011 elections to the Frente Sandinista, Nicaragua’s political opposition has divided into conventional political parties working in the country’s legislature and an...
View ArticleSandinistas Poised to Win Election in Nicaragua Despite U.S. Sabotage and Smears
The Nicaraguan elections are on Nov. 7, 2021. The U.S. government, the media that does its bidding, and even some self-described “leftists,” present a Nicaragua in “turmoil” and “crisis”—and the...
View ArticleSandinistas Win By a Landslide! U.S. Dirty Tricks Fail in Derailing...
In the lead up to the February 25, 1990 elections, President George H.W. Bush told the Nicaraguan people that the U.S. would keep funding the Contras (counter-revolutionaries recruited, funded and...
View ArticleThe Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full of U.S....
A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is...
View ArticleCIA Whistleblower, David C. MacMichael, Who Helped Ignite Iran-Contra Affair...
The Intelligence Community lost a bona fide hero last month with the death of David C. MacMichael, 95, a former contract CIA analyst who resigned from the Agency in 1983 to go public with information...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the BBC: Every Article is a Lie to Attack Nicaragua
The June 23 BBC article by Bernd Debusmann, “US Immigration: They’d rather die than return to Nicaragua,” confirms that the corporate media consistently make every article an attack on its Sandinista...
View ArticleFire from the Mountain: An Interview with Nicaragua’s Comandante Omar Cabezas
We interview Omar Cabezas, legendary Sandinista guerilla and author of Fire From the Mountain, about Nicaragua today, the state of the Sandinista Revolution, and his feelings about Daniel Ortega
View ArticleBiden Sanctions Nicaragua (Again)
On Monday, President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Nicaragua's state-owned mining enterprises. Revenue from these mining operations funds Nicaragua's social welfare programs. The move comes less...
View ArticleNew U.S. Sanctions are Designed to Hit Nicaragua’s Poorest Citizens
MAINSTREAM MEDIA RIDICULOUSLY CLAIM THAT NICARAGUA IS A THREAT TO U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY WHEN IT HAS ONE OF THE LOWEST LEVELS OF DEFENSE SPENDING IN THE WORLD The Biden administration has announced new...
View ArticleEighteen Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing...
On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not...
View ArticleThe Weakness of Progressive Latin American Governments in These Precarious Times
Unwilling to accept election results in Venezuela, the OAS, led by the US, passed a resolution essentially asking the country to violate its own election laws. Many countries with supposedly...
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