Jim Hodgson
@jimhodgson.bsky.social
Journalist, retired international development worker (mostly Latin America), human rights defender. Author of a blog, www.unwrappingdevelopment.ca
I split my time between Chiapas (southern Mexico) and British Columbia (western Canada).
I split my time between Chiapas (southern Mexico) and British Columbia (western Canada).
Reposted by Jim Hodgson
“How is it that members of parliament are a public safety concern?” she said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “How is it that civil society organisations who are doing humanitarian work… [are] a security concern?”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Canadian MP blocked from West Bank rejects Israel’s ‘safety concern’ claims
'How is it that members of parliament are a public safety concern?' Canadian MP Jenny Kwan tells Al Jazeera.
www.aljazeera.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
“How is it that members of parliament are a public safety concern?” she said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “How is it that civil society organisations who are doing humanitarian work… [are] a security concern?”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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Ethiopia's bondholders are trying to get paid 50% more than government creditors. This would mean they'd make 100% profit after 'debt relief'.
New research by us and Afrodad:
debtjustice.org.uk/press-releas...
New research by us and Afrodad:
debtjustice.org.uk/press-releas...
Bondholders seeking massive profits from Ethiopian ‘debt relief’ - Debt Justice
Bondholders are pushing to get paid over 50% more than Ethiopia’s government creditors. These proposals could lead to bondholders making 100% profit.
debtjustice.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Ethiopia's bondholders are trying to get paid 50% more than government creditors. This would mean they'd make 100% profit after 'debt relief'.
New research by us and Afrodad:
debtjustice.org.uk/press-releas...
New research by us and Afrodad:
debtjustice.org.uk/press-releas...
Garbage Is Poisoning Gaza
Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been systematically destroyed by the Israeli military, including waste management services. Massive piles of garbage have accumulated across the enclave.
Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been systematically destroyed by the Israeli military, including waste management services. Massive piles of garbage have accumulated across the enclave.
Garbage Is Poisoning Gaza
With Israel controlling all of Gaza’s major landfill areas, 900,000 tons of solid waste have been dumped across the enclave, exacerbating a public health crisis.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Garbage Is Poisoning Gaza
Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been systematically destroyed by the Israeli military, including waste management services. Massive piles of garbage have accumulated across the enclave.
Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been systematically destroyed by the Israeli military, including waste management services. Massive piles of garbage have accumulated across the enclave.
THE NEXT WARS WERE ALWAYS HERE
Michelle Ellner, CodePink: The legal theories invented after 9/11 – elastic self-defense, limitless definitions of terrorism, enemy combatants, global strike authority – became the backbone of a permanent war machine.
Michelle Ellner, CodePink: The legal theories invented after 9/11 – elastic self-defense, limitless definitions of terrorism, enemy combatants, global strike authority – became the backbone of a permanent war machine.
THE NEXT WARS WERE ALWAYS HERE
How Post 9/11 Law and the Monroe Doctrine Converged in the Caribbean.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
THE NEXT WARS WERE ALWAYS HERE
Michelle Ellner, CodePink: The legal theories invented after 9/11 – elastic self-defense, limitless definitions of terrorism, enemy combatants, global strike authority – became the backbone of a permanent war machine.
Michelle Ellner, CodePink: The legal theories invented after 9/11 – elastic self-defense, limitless definitions of terrorism, enemy combatants, global strike authority – became the backbone of a permanent war machine.
Unaccompanied minors like Lucy flee their home countries for a number of reasons, including to get away from violent crime, gang violence, and economic turmoil— often at the urging of their own parents....
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Unaccompanied minors like Lucy flee their home countries for a number of reasons, including to get away from violent crime, gang violence, and economic turmoil— often at the urging of their own parents....
Beyond the constant noise, the United States has a plan for domination of the Americas. Boat strikes and election interference are part of it, but its essence would isolate countries from each other. Resistance grows and is not futile.
The Monroe Doctrine never went away
Beyond all that noise, the United States has a plan for domination of the Americas. Boat strikes and election interference are part of it, but its essence would isolate countries from each other. Resistance grows and is not futile.
unwrappingdevelopment.ca
December 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Beyond the constant noise, the United States has a plan for domination of the Americas. Boat strikes and election interference are part of it, but its essence would isolate countries from each other. Resistance grows and is not futile.
Pardon Me? Dan Rather explains why Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras (convicted of drug trafficking by a U.S. court) and why he endorsed that man's party in Sunday's presidential election. Hypocrisy abounds.
Pardon Me?
Trump's abuse of the presidential pardon is undermining the rule of law
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Pardon Me? Dan Rather explains why Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras (convicted of drug trafficking by a U.S. court) and why he endorsed that man's party in Sunday's presidential election. Hypocrisy abounds.
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
www.dropsitenews.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
Faith communities send open letter urging preservation of El Salvador’s historic ban on metals mining
Open Letter Urges Preservation of El Salvador's Historic Ban on Metals Mining - Institute for Policy Studies
153 faith-based organizations from 25 countries call upon the Salvadoran government to reject metals mining projects that would threaten Salvadoran communities.
ips-dc.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Faith communities send open letter urging preservation of El Salvador’s historic ban on metals mining
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Charlie Angus denounces conservative attacks on Canada’s multiculturalism, "multi-genderism" and multilateralism.
The Conservative "Multiverse" Attack on Canada
At a time when global instability is rising, you would think that it would be patently obvious that Canada’s longstanding tradition of international engagement matters more than ever.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Charlie Angus denounces conservative attacks on Canada’s multiculturalism, "multi-genderism" and multilateralism.
As Hondurans head to the polls Sunday, Trump says he will grant a pardon to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.
This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.
Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving US sentence after drug trafficking conviction
President Donald Trump said he will grant a pardon to former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking an...
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
As Hondurans head to the polls Sunday, Trump says he will grant a pardon to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.
This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
Trump endorsed the nominee of the right-wing party, while pledging to pardon its most recent president, who sits in U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.
www.dropsitenews.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.
The “feminist foreign policy” is dead. What next?
A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.
unwrappingdevelopment.ca
November 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.
Not in every instance, but this is pretty much what happened.
Was the Pentecostal Boom in Latin America a CIA Psyop?
Capitalism, Protestant Missions, and the War on Liberation Theology
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Not in every instance, but this is pretty much what happened.
Michelle Ellner: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela open.substack.com/pub/codepink...
How to topple Elliot Abrams’ delusion: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela
Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Michelle Ellner: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela open.substack.com/pub/codepink...
70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' www.commondreams.org/news/america...
70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' | Common Dreams
"It should come as no surprise by now that the president who campaigned on keeping the US out of wars and then promptly bombed Iran has now found another conflict in which to embroil the country."
www.commondreams.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' www.commondreams.org/news/america...
Roger Harris in Popular Resistance: The United States combines open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives. #SanctionsKill #HandsOffVenezuela
Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths At Sea; Hundreds Of Thousands By Sanctions - PopularResistance.Org
Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls Operation Southern Spear. On Oct...
popularresistance.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Roger Harris in Popular Resistance: The United States combines open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives. #SanctionsKill #HandsOffVenezuela
A brilliant, heart-breaking story:
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A brilliant, heart-breaking story:
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Economist Jeffrey Sachsnotes that regime change is a “core tool of US foreign policy.” The overt military attacks on Venezuela and the more covert ones planned for Honduras are part of the same imperial game plan. popularresistance.org/the-quiet-pl...
The Quiet Plot To End Progressive Government In Honduras - PopularResistance.Org
Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean grabs the headlines, while quieter moves to destabilize other progressive Latin American governments go unnoticed by corporate media. A key case is a plot th...
popularresistance.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Economist Jeffrey Sachsnotes that regime change is a “core tool of US foreign policy.” The overt military attacks on Venezuela and the more covert ones planned for Honduras are part of the same imperial game plan. popularresistance.org/the-quiet-pl...
Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.
Labour, development NGOs demand Canada condemn U.S. boat attacks in Caribbean
Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.
unwrappingdevelopment.ca
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.
Reposted by Jim Hodgson
Canadian organizations with decades of experience and partnerships in the Americas sent a letter to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social, @manindersidhu.bsky.social, Minister McGuinty urging them to protect the rule of law, sovereignty and security in Latin America and the Caribbean. bit.ly/3K03kv9
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Canadian organizations with decades of experience and partnerships in the Americas sent a letter to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social, @manindersidhu.bsky.social, Minister McGuinty urging them to protect the rule of law, sovereignty and security in Latin America and the Caribbean. bit.ly/3K03kv9
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Noah Bullock, executive director of El Salvador’s human rights monitor, Cristosal, speaks about the human rights abuses and torture in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT):
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...
“You Have Arrived in Hell”: Venezuelans Sent By U.S. to El Salvador Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse
252 Venezuelan immigrants in the United States were flown to El Salvador in the dead of night and indefinitely imprisoned at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center. The det...
www.democracynow.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Noah Bullock, executive director of El Salvador’s human rights monitor, Cristosal, speaks about the human rights abuses and torture in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT):
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...
Charlie Angus noticed what Anand said in response to Trump’s violence. (Read all the way to the end.)
Herman Göring Is Having a Moment
Herman Göring is having a moment.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Charlie Angus noticed what Anand said in response to Trump’s violence. (Read all the way to the end.)
As we watch with horror the U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean and threats against Venezuela, CodePink provides an excellent summary of past U.S. regime change disasters.
"Regime change” in Venezuela is a euphemism for U.S.-inflicted carnage and chaos
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
As we watch with horror the U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean and threats against Venezuela, CodePink provides an excellent summary of past U.S. regime change disasters.