By David Swanson on June 23, 2015
June 28 will mark 6 years since the U.S.-backed military coup in Honduras took the people’s government away from them. Thousands of people are still in the streets every week demanding that the wrongful president step down.”Whoever’s not jumping supports the coup!” is the shout as a sea of people leaps repeatedly into the air. (more…)
June 28, 2015
June 26, 2015. | Photo: AVN
All of the governing party’s candidates for the December elections will be selected Sunday. Millions of members of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will hit the ballot box Sunday to vote for the left-wing party’s candidates for parliamentary elections to be held in December. (more…)
By Dennis J. Bernstein on June 19, 2015
The U.S. government and news media have jumped back into Cold War attitudes since early 2014 when a U.S.-backed coup overthrew Ukraine’s elected president and prompted countermoves by Russia, setting the stage for a potential nuclear showdown, as journalist Robert Parry discussed with Dennis J. Bernstein. (more…)
By Rania Khalek June 16, 2015
During his 2014 address to the UN General Assembly, Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “fighting militant Islam is indivisible.”The Israeli prime minister’s crude attempts to conflate ISIS with Hamas should not be allowed to conceal an important truth: Israel aids the forces of “militant Islam” when it is considered opportune to do so. (more…)
Local Editor on June 19, 2015
Syrian Arab Army Terrorist organizations continue to suffer more losses as the army goes on with its crackdown, foiling their infiltrating attempts and pushing terrorists back in strategic areas in the southern region and leaving many of them killed in areas across the country, state-run SANA news agency reported. (more…)
By Tony Cartalucci on June 15, 2015
Since ancient times an army required significant logistical support to carry out any kind of sustained military campaign. In ancient Rome, an extensive network of roads was constructed to facilitate not only trade, but to allow Roman legions to move quickly to where they were needed, and for the supplies needed to sustain military operations to follow them in turn. (more…)
By Alicia Garza on June 19, 2015
Wednesday night in Charleston, South Carolina, an act of terrorism was committed against a group of Black people who gathered in prayer. The church, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, was a site of slave rebellions as far back as 1822 and one of the oldest Black churches in the country. (more…)
June 18, 2015
The Head of the Venezuelan Parliament Diosdado Cabello denounced today opposition forces for attempting to sabotage primaries of the Unified Venezuelan Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV)) by generating violence. (more…)