Jul 25, 2015
The Obama administration wants to “strengthen the puppet government” in Ukraine against mass opposition, said James Petras. A plan by the US military to begin training regular Ukrainian military forces later this year points to Washington’s strategy to reinforce the “puppet government” in Kiev, an American writer and retired professor says. (more…)
The US Defense Department has awarded major weapons maker Raytheon to provide the Persian Gulf Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 355 air-to-ground missiles amid its persisting campaign of aerial strikes against civilian and economic targets in neighboring Yemen. (more…)
By Margaret Kimberley on July 23, 2015
The U.S. deal with Iran – based on assumptions about an Iranian nuclear weapons program that American intelligence agencies have twice concluded does not exist – allows the U.S. to concentrate on provoking Russia and China while continuing to threaten Iran with destruction. Global peace is no closer than before, since “America’s insistence on imperialism and control of other countries is the cause of every catastrophe.” (more…)
July 24, 2015
More than 1000 Palestinians and Palestinian organizations from across the world have expressed support for Syria “in its efforts to repel the foreign invaders and the countries that are creating, training, financing, arming and supporting the terrorist groups in Syria.” Statement of Palestinian groups and individuals in the occupied homeland, refugee camps and the diaspora about the global war on Syria. (more…)
By Prof. John McMurtry and Kourosh Ziabari on July 25, 2015
Interview with Prof. John McMurtry. A world-renowned Canadian philosopher argues that the United States holds the world record of illegal killings of unarmed civilians and extrajudicial detention and torturing of prisoners who are detained without trial. (more…)
Saturday’s protest at Netroots was just the beginning. And activists say the Clinton campaign hasn’t engaged them, and her Facebook answer is not enough.
By Darren Sands and Ruby Cramer on July 21, 2015
The activists started with a simple question: “What side are you on?” The chant rang through the hall of the Phoenix Convention Center on Saturday morning, upending a presidential forum at the annual progressive conference, Netroots Nation. And one after the other, the two candidates there struggled to find the right reply: Martin O’Malley was defensive, Bernie Sanders frustrated. (more…)
July 24, 2015
Representatives of unions from Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Venezuela formally constituted the Workers Block of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA), it was learned here today. (more…)
By Stephen Kimber on July 20, 2015
“Maybe I’m idealistic, but I’m a true believer in the strengths Cuba has as a nation. One of the most precious things we have is our people. And this will help in our new relations with the United States…” During the four years Josefina de Caridad Vidal Ferreiro spent as first secretary of the Cuban Interest Section in Washington, D.C., it was among the worst of times in the ongoing, never-ending bad times between the United States and Cuba. (more…)