Rights Action shares this excellent two-part article by James Phillips, to expose again the fundamental imperialism of the US and ‘the West’, past and present. 

It is impossible overstate how complicit the U.S. and Canada are in having supported, enabled and legitimized for close to 13 years the repressive, “open for global business”, drug-trafficking regime headed by former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, sentenced on June 26 to 45 years on charges of drug-trafficking.

-- Rights Action recommends the Ojala news outlet --

As the Hudbay lawsuits proceed in their 14th year in Canadian courts, Rights Action continues to provide small grants to the 13 plaintiffs who have forever lived at a subsistence poverty level in a normal, let alone when extra harms occur.

This extraordinary Genocide Trial in Guatemala is receiving little to no media coverage in US, Canada and Western Europe, most likely because the Genocides in Guatemala were supported and enabled by the US (primarily) and to a lesser extent by Western Europe (Britain and France, notably) and Canada.

Rights Action urges folks in the US and Canada to get involved / stay involved in work and activism related to Israel’s ethnic cleansing, genocidal attack on Palestine that is supported and legitimized by the US and Canada, Germany, Britain, France and other EU countries, and Australia. This is “our” issue in the US and Canada. Here, a few recent reports …

In Honduras, three Canadian citizens (Randy “porn king” Jorgensen, Malik Zoharan and Darren Wade) have been charged with money laundering and fraud related to sales to other Canadian tourist investors of lands that actually have been violently and corruptly taken from the Garifuna people for decades.

Life conditions worsen in Central American Dry Corridor, increasingly vulnerable to global climate changes resulting from human behavior

As Central America’s hottest, longest dry season in recent memory drags on, Canadian company Bluestone Resources pushes aggressively to operate a cyanide-leaching, open-pit gold mine, threatening the water supply for millions of Guatemalans and Salvadorans

• Below, a Michael Fox/ TRUTHOUT article