Remembering Che Guevara 50 Years After His Assassination

by James Cockcroft

teleSUR | October 09, 2017

Argentine communist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who helped lead the Cuban Revolution of 1959. | Photo: Archive

In light of a recent upsurge in denunciations of Che and the Cuban Revolution, it is important to separate fact from fiction.

 

The year 2017 is the 50th anniversary of the CIA-ordered assassination of Che Guevara.

In light of a recent upsurge in denunciations of Che and the Cuban Revolution, it is important to separate fact from fiction.

‘Be Like Che’: Cuba Observes 50th Anniversary of Revolutionary’s Death

teleSUR | October 08, 2017

Cubans pay homage to Che. | Photo: Cubadebate

Hundreds of thousands of Cuban and international guests poured into in Santa Clara, Cuba to pay homage to the revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara, one of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution.

Time of Great Dying: Population Bomb Bursts, the End of Old-Growth Forests, and the Great Awakening

by DR. GLEN BARRY

EcoInternet | October 08, 2017

Exponential human population growth can only end in collapse (courtesy of Population Matters)

OVER-POPULATED, INEQUITABLE OVER-CONSUMPTION

In 90 years – a blink of an eye in ecological and geological time – the human population has gone from two billion to over seven billion. Another one billion people are added every 12-15 years, such exponential growth in human population can only end in collapse. Of these, a billion extravagantly over-consume (including a few hundred individuals who have amassed half of Earth’s wealth) as another billion live in abject poverty on less than $1.50 a day.

World Cup 2022: Qatar’s workers are not workers, they are slaves, and they are building mausoleums, not stadiums

by Jonathan Liew

The Independent | October 03, 2017

Qatar’s population is 2.6 million, of whom nearly 90 per cent are migrant workers. Getty

Your name is Sumon, and you live in a small village in rural Bangladesh. One day you’re visited by a casual acquaintance you’ve known since childhood, who has an opportunity. He’s recruiting for a clerical job, he knows you’ve always been bright and ambitious, and he wants you. He’ll take care of everything: paperwork, passport, medical, transport. He’ll even act as a reference if you need a bank loan. The promised salary – $400 dollars US a month – is literally more money than you’ve seen before in your life.

Of course, you’re no mug. You’ve heard the stories. But this is an old friend. Your children go to school together. He works for the local government. He wants to help. A fresh start, financial security, a better future for your family. Besides, what’s the alternative? Stay in your village and slowly get old?

MYANMAR WORKERS FIGHT DEFAMATION CHARGES IN THAILAND

FREEDOM UNITED | October 04, 2017

A group of migrant workers from Myanmar pleaded not guilty to charges of defamation this week by their former employer, Thammakaset poultry farm in central Thailand. The workers say they were forced to work overtime, unlawful deductions were made from their salaries, and that their passports were confiscated.

The workers first filed a complaint to Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission last year, but Thammakaset farm firmly denied any wrongdoing and launched a defamation lawsuit against the workers for allegedly damaging the company’s reputation.

Millions of Women Suffer From a Disease That Virtually Sucks the Life Out of Them

But doctors still aren’t taking it seriously.

by MAYA DUSENBERY

 Jason Frank Rothenberg

Jen Brea was a 28-year-old grad student at Harvard when her health began to deteriorate after a 104 degree fever. She spent a year searching for an explanation for her recurrent infections, profound dizziness and disturbing neurological symptoms, only to be dismissed by doctor after doctor. She was just stressed. She was dehydrated. There was nothing wrong. A neurologist told her she had conversion disorder, a psychiatric diagnosis that used to go by another name: hysteria. He suggested that her symptoms were the product of her “unconscious mind,” caused by a repressed trauma she couldn’t remember.