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Latin America: Another Look at Daneil Ortega and the Sandinista Struggle Monday, May 09 @ 13:58:30 UTC | By Joe DeRaymond, counterpunch.org
"This movement is national and anti-imperialist. We fly the flag of freedom for Nicaragua and for all Latin America. And on the social level it's a people's movement, we stand for the advancement of social aspirations."
--Augusto C. Sandino
In 1911, Nicaragua was occupied by a force of United States Marines that invaded to protect United States interests. This was just the next of a series of US "interventions" and invasions of Nicaragua. The marines remained till 1925, then returned again in 1926, to quell a rebellion organized by a Nicaraguan, Augusto C. Sandino, who grew up under this US occupation. His guerrilla forces were never defeated, despite the deployment of 12,000 troops and the use of aerial bombardment. The Marines left Nicaragua in 1933, after the US had trained a Nicaraguan security force, The National Guard.
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War and Terror: Might As Well Get To Know The Middle East Wednesday, April 09 @ 03:51:56 UTC | by Charley Reese, reese.king-online.com
Now that our president has embedded us in the Middle East for an indefinite future, you might as well start trying to educate yourself about the area and its conflicts. As one can say about so many problems in this world, it all began with the British Empire.
When you look at a map of the Middle East, you are looking at a map drawn by two Europeans by the names of Sykes and Picot. This map represents the betrayal of the Arabs and the Kurds. Before this map was drawn, the area had been part of the Ottoman Empire. (That's Turkey, for those of you who hate history and geography.)
The British, with their usual perfidy, had promised everything to everybody. Help us overthrow the Turks, they said to the Arabs, and you can have an independent Arab nation afterward. Help us overthrow the Turks, they said to the Kurds, and you will get an independent Kurdistan. And for some reason historians still argue about, they also promised European Zionists that they (the Brits) would establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. They betrayed them, too, because what they did was establish the Palestine mandate — or, in plain language, British occupation of Palestine.
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Racism Watch: One Way of Reading ''Somebody Blew Up America'' Saturday, December 14 @ 20:03:55 UTC | By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, November 26, 2002
[ Editor's Note: On Saturday 22, November 2002, Amiri Baraka, one of America's most distinguished poets delivered a lecture at Wellesley College. It caused a huge controversy on the campus because Baraka wrote "Somebody Blew Up America," a poem that dealt with the disastrous events of September 11, 2002 and his reaction towards it. In this article, Professor Selwyn Cudjoe contextualizes Baraka's poem and argues for its literariness rather than reducing it to a mere sociological document ]
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Africa Focus: Did Aryans invade India from the North? Sunday, September 22 @ 06:28:24 UTC | by Pianke Nubiyang
Here are the facts:
1. The term "Aryan" has nothing to do with race, it is a linguistic term and it used to apply to all the people who were composed of a number of groups who lived in the Eurasian region. They were nomads similar to the Scythians, Cimmerians and others.
2. All European languages except Finnish and Sami, Basque and others are related to the Indo-Aryan languages. That clearly shows that many of the peoples who live in Northern India and who trickled in various parts of the land came from somewhere else.
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