Meet the U.S. Students Studying Medicine For Free in Cuba
BT’s Rania Khalek paid a visit to the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, also known as ELAM. Cuba’s socialist government foots the bill for students, who come from all over the world to study medicine for free. Tuition, accommodation and board are all covered. Cuba even throws in a government stipend for students […]
‘The US Is A Predator’: Cuban Official on the Blockade & Cuba’s Anti-Imperialism
Breakthrough News was on the ground in Havana, Cuba where Rania Khalek spoke with Johana Tablada, General Deputy Director of US affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry. They discussed the US blockade hampering the country’s development, how socialism makes Cuba’s survival possible, why Cuba has such a strong anti-imperialist foreign policy, how Cuba sees the […]
Can U.S. Seriously Blame China for Climate Change?
At COP26 the U.S. attempted to displace blame onto China for climate change, which was caused disproportionately by the advanced capitalist powers. While the U.S. media often calls China the biggest carbon emitter, this tends to leave out both per-capita emissions and the fact that these same countries have outsourced so much of their manufacturing […]
War in Ukraine? Unrest in Kazakhstan? What’s going on?
All things having to do with Russia are seen in the West through a renewed Cold War prism, with simplistic portrayals more befitting a Hollywood villain. Western media has been in a panic about an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine, while they celebrated a countrywide uprising in Kazakhstan that after a few days was put […]
Ali Abunimah Responds to Covid Denial & Anti-Vaccine Sentiment On the Left
Hostility to the COVID vaccine campaign is no longer just the domain of the right. Some on the left are veering into a conspiratorial reaction against medical experts, casting supporters of basic public health measures as dupes of Big Pharma. What’s going on? Rania Khalek spoke to Ali Abunimah, director of The Electronic Intifada […]
Palestine, the Squad & How the Right To Resist Imperial Violence Is Universal
As Israel enters its 74th year of occupying Palestine, labeling all its critics as antisemitic, world public opinion is finally changing. But is it shifting fast enough for those being pushed off their land? What is the relationship between, and relative importance of, Western public opinion in connection with regional resistance? How should we deal […]
Women Accuse TPLF of Mass Rape | The War on Ethiopia Dispatch 2
Nifas Mewcha, a town in northern Ethiopia, was attacked and captured by the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, from August 12 to August 21. Breakthrough News traveled there and spoke to several women who gave testimony that they were gang raped by TPLF fighters, many in front of their children, in the nine days […]
American Fascism: White Supremacy and the Far Right from the Klan to Jan. 6
Brian Becker and Dr. Gerald Horne discuss the one-year anniversary of the January 6th assault on the U.S. Capitol, encouraged and organized by Donald Trump. It was the first time since 1812 that the U.S. government was under attack on its home soil, yet the leaders of the attack have still not been prosecuted – […]