By COHA Editorial Board
From Washington DC The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) is pleased to announce its formal nomination of the Henry Reeve Brigade for the Nobel Peace Prize, in a formal submission delivered today January 22 to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Stockholm, Sweden. For more than 40 years COHA has provided critical-ethical analysis of US-Latin American relations and has studied the culture, politics, and social programs of Cuba. Since its inception, the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade , sponsored by the government of Cuba, has delivered high quality health care services and medical supplies to hundreds of thousands of underprivileged and underserved populations throughout the world. These services include p revention as well as treatment. Its message is one of human solidarity and peace, building bridges of understanding between different countries, regardless of ideology and cultural background. In that sense, the Henry Reeve Brigade re
The U.S. Navy has increased by $43.2 million its contract with General Dynamics Mission Systems for work on ballistic missile submarines. The work will take place mostly at the companyâs Pittsfield facility. EAGLE FILE PHOTO
PITTSFIELD â Advocates of abolishing nuclear weapons will mark the debut of a U.N.-backed treaty with a protest Friday morning at General Dynamics in Pittsfield.
At 9 a.m., activists say they will deliver a letter to General Dynamics officials at 100 Plastics Ave. notifying them that the nuclear weapons industry faces pushback from nations that have ratified whatâs known as the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
. Ethiopians were supposed to go to the polls this past August. That vote was postponed, however, ostensibly because of COVID-19. If the vote is held in 2021, it will take place amid considerable turmoil. In late 2019, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed merged the ruling government coalition into a single political party. It includes nearly every major ethnic party except for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The TPLF, which dominated Ethiopian politics before Abiy took office, refused to join. In September, Tigray, which accounts for 6 percent of Ethiopia’s population, defied the federal government and held regional elections. Two months later, Abiy claimed that Tigrayans had attacked a military base. He ordered military retaliation in response and quickly claimed that federal control had been reestablished over Tigray. Fighting has continued, however, and some 50,000 Tigrayans have been displaced. Meanwhile, ethnic violence is rising elsewhere in Ethiopia. Abi