John Perry

Jan 22, 2025 | blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Arnold August |Erica Caines |John Perry

Fanmi Lavalas has fallen far from its roots as a popular progressive movement to nothing more than a servant of imperialism. Originally published in The Canada-Haiti Information Project. When former Catholic liberation theologian priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide burst onto the world stage in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was as an opponent and victim of U.S. imperialism.

Jan 7, 2025 | blackagendareport.com | John Perry |Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Margaret Kimberley |Max Ajl

Trinidad is experiencing a crime wave of unprecedented proportions. The state has responded by continuing to militarize the police and loosening the restrictions on them. To understand the mechanisms causing the deteriorating conditions, one must look at its relationship with the United States. Trinidad and Tobago has recently declared a state of emergency in response to an alarming surge in violent crime, culminating in a murder toll of 623 for 2024—the highest recorded in the nation’s history.

Nov 29, 2024 | original.antiwar.com | John Perry

In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”. Presumably he agreed that it does, because he renewed its status as a “national security threat” for a further year, repeating the designation that first began under the last Trump presidency.

Jul 30, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas |John Perry |Claudia O'Brien Moscoso |Ann Garrison

Four consecutive US governments have incrementally expanded their reliance on using the US dollar as a weapon of war, forcing nations across the world to create alternative financial systems and pursue de-dollarization. Originally published in The Cradle.

May 31, 2024 | laprogressive.com | John Perry

Any condemnation of Israel by the US or one of its Western allies would be taken at face value—in clear contrast to the media’s treatment of such action by an official enemy country like Nicaragua. When Nicaragua accused Germany of aiding and abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last month, readers of corporate media might have seriously wondered whether Nicaragua’s case had any legitimacy.