By Robert Barsocchini August 28, 2015
North Dakota has become the first state to approve government use of drones equipped with “less than lethal weapons”, including “rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers”. (more…)
By BAR executive editor Glen Ford on August 26, 2015
The best thing that could happen to poor Black people is for a Katrina-like catastrophe to hit their city, scattering them to the four corners of the country. (more…)
August 27, 2015
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has said he will not stand in “sad” elections expected in the debt-ridden country next month. (more…)
By Nora Barrows-Friedman on August 26, 2015
On 26 August 2014, a ceasefire brought an end to 51 days of Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Israel killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 551 children. A year later, due to the eight years of continuous siege, reconstruction of the tens of thousands homes Israel destroyed (more…)
Local Editor on August 28, 2015
More than 1,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip sustained permanent disabilities during last year’s 51-day Zionist military onslaught, (more…)
By Kanya D’Almeida on August 24, 2015
Let’s start with what we know: Since 2002, the US Congress has appropriated just over $109 billion for Afghanistan’s development, making this the largest foreign reconstruction program (more…)
August 28, 2015
Israel, a nation that has repeatedly sided with the United States against Cuba whenever the United Nations asks for a lifting of the trade embargo imposed by Washington, (more…)
August 25, 2015
For at least 11 years, Venezuela has denounced the presence of extreme right-wing paramilitaries in its territory. (more…)