Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of CODEPINK and author of Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection. Her new book is Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic.
2021 年确实是灾难性的一年，但我们确实有理由欢呼。
This year, 2021, began with a huge sense of relief as Trump left office. We hoped to emerge from the ravages of COVID, pass a hefty Build Back Better (BBB) bill, and make significant cuts to the Pentagon budget. But, alas, we faced a January 6 white nationalist insurrection, two new COVID mutations, a sliced-and-diced BBB bill that didn’t pass, and
大多数古巴人似乎更关心如何激发他们的经济而不是推翻他们的领导人。即使他们将管理不善、腐败和扼杀私营企业的制度归咎于政府，也很少有人不承认美国制裁的巨大影响。
HAVANA -- “If you build it, they will come,” said Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams. In Cuba, they didn’t come. Dissidents on the island, with their U.S. backers, had been working feverishly for months to turn the unprecedented July 11 protests into a crescendo of government opposition on November 15. They built a formidable structure, with
当美国撤出阿富汗时，它冻结了数十亿美元的阿富汗资产，使该国许多最重要的行动陷入停顿，并蔓延着苦难。美国政府必须释放这些资金。
WASHINGTON (Jacobin) — Since the Taliban took control of Kabul and the central government on August 15, efforts to support Afghan women have become extremely challenging. According to some prominent U.S. feminists with strong ties to Afghan women, the Taliban “has no legitimacy beyond the brutal force it commands,” and governments, the United
虽然迈阿密的右翼古巴人称他为“共产主义者”，但卡洛斯·拉佐 (Carlos Lazo) 没有时间讨论意识形态。他既不支持也不反对古巴政府；他是为了古巴人民，古巴家庭。他对美国封锁的残酷性感到厌恶
Carlos Lazo and a small band of Cuban Americans are on a 1,300-mile pilgrimage from Miami to Washington, D.C., to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Despite the blistering summer heat and occasional death threats (including a trucker who tried to run them off the road), the marchers persist. Lazo’s group is called Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love, and
在城乡和阶级鸿沟巨大的选举悬念中，农村教师、农民和工会领袖似乎即将以不到百分之一的优势击败极右翼候选人藤森惠子，从而创造历史。 .
With his wide-brimmed peasant hat and oversized teacher’s pencil held high, Peru’s Pedro Castillo has been traveling the country exhorting voters to get behind a call that has been particularly urgent during this devastating pandemic: “No más pobres en un país rico” - No more poor people in a rich country. In a cliffhanger of an election with a
尽管有人说他的政府的古巴政策将以人权问题为指导，但拜登似乎更关心迎合佛罗里达州南部的右翼古巴裔美国人，而不是改变几十年来根深蒂固的美国政策。
HAVANA -- Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign on his popular Facebook livestream. An energetic Cuban-American high school teacher in Seattle, Lazo created a group called Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love, to unite Cuban
现在是时候让国会高级管理人员，例如小队的AOC，Ilhan Omar，Rashida Tlaib和Ayanna Presley与国会进步核心小组团结起来，放下脚步，抵制military肿的军事预算。
Imagine this scenario: A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion military budget, an increase of $13 billion from Trump’s already inflated budget, and we can’t, in good conscience, support this.” Now that would be a show stopper, particularly if they
