Fuente: Peace Reporter Traducción: Gorka Larrabeiti, Rebelión Desde Helmand, testimonios de civiles heridos durante la operación Moshtarak por Enrico Piovesana 1 de marzo, 2010 Los cazas vuelan bajo por el cielo sobre Lashkargah. Atrás y adelante, sin parar. Unos pacientes del hospital de Emergency los siguen con la mirada atenta. Han salido al jardín con sus muletas, sus sillas de [...]

Reportaje desde Helmand, Afganistán. La gente de Marjah denuncia que hay doscientos civiles muertos y explica por qué prefieren a los talibanes Fuente: Peace Reporter Traducción: Gorka Larrabeiti, Rebelión por Enrico Piovesana 26 de febrero, 2010 En una guerra siempre es difícil contar la verdad, lograr separar la realidad de los hechos en la propaganda de una y otra parte. [...]

Fuente: Argenpress por Andrés Figueroa Cornejo 28 de febrero, 2010 Santiago de Chile.- Mientras se escriben estas palabras, en Concepción cientos de personas afectadas brutalmente por el terremoto que estremeció a Chile desde la Quinta hasta la Novena Región –incluyendo la Región Metropolitana- abren las bodegas del supermercado Líder (Wal Mart en Chile) para llevarse mercancías de primera [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Beverly Bell The Haitian government has been largely silent since the January 12 earthquake. Publicly, that is.  Who knows what officials are saying behind closed doors to international governments and other donors?  Citizens don’t.  They have heard from President René Préval about his personal losses from the [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Ramzy Baroud When American historian Howard Zinn passed away recently, he left behind a legacy that redefined our relationship to history altogether. Professor Zinn dared to challenge the way history was told and written. In fact he went as far as to defy the conventional construction of [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Beverly Bell The downtown, around Grand Rue in the old part of the city, looks like a modern-day variant of Pompei. Nothing but ruins.  Here the tall buildings didn’t even pancake; they just crumbled. It’s ghostly, with no electricity or cars and few people. Those who are out [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Beverly Bell “Yon sèl dwèt pa manje kalalou,” says Christroi Petit-homme, a member of a peasant farmer organization. You can’t eat gumbo with one finger. Peasant groups throughout rural Haiti form the fingers of the hand, reaching out with humanitarian aid for those left bereft after the [...]

Fuente: Institute for War & Peace Reporting Traducción: Sinfo Fernández, Rebelión por Aziz Ahmad Tassal/Mohammad Elyas Dayee 20 de febrero, 2010 Los vecinos del distrito de Marjah, en la provincia de Helmand, donde una operación militar conjunta entre el ejército afgano y las fuerzas occidentales trata de expulsar a los talibanes, comentan que hay varios civiles más asesinados aparte [...]

Source: Noam Chomsky Forthcoming in the Resist Newsletter, February 2010 by Noam Chomsky It is not easy for me to write a few words about Howard Zinn, the great American activist and historian who passed away a few days ago. He was a very close friend for 45 years. The families were very close too. His wife Roz, [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Beverly Bell “Collapsed house, no number” is an old expression that Haitians uses to indicate that their flimsy homes of sticks-and-mud or shoddy cement blocks have finally fallen apart. Today that expression could serve as the motto for the capitol city of Port-au-Prince. Take Helia Lajeunesse, an unemployed children’s [...]