Guatemalans Stage National Strike to Demand President Step Down

August 27, 2015

Citizens, fed up with government corruption, have organized a march and national strike, which they say may last for several days. (more…)

Witnesses to the Benefits of Heberprot-P

By Yusmary Romero Cruz on August 27, 2015

About 3% of diabetes patients suffer a diabetic foot ulcer at some point in their life, Dr. Yanisel Campos notes. Photo: Yusmary Romero Cruz

Photo: Yusmary Romero Cruz

Over 43,700 patients have benefited from the medicine in Cuba, together with more than 160,000 across Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe (more…)

Yemen Faces Humanitarian Crisis as US-backed Assault Continues

 

By Niles Williamson on August 20, 2015

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday that nearly 8 children have been killed or wounded every day in the course of the air assault on Yemen spearheaded by Saudi Arabia, which began earlier this year. (more…)

Black Activists Send Clear Message to Palestinians: “Now is the Time for Palestinian Liberation, Just as Now is the Time for our Own in the United States”

August 18, 2015

Photo: Christopher Azou

Photo: Christopher Azou

More than 1,000 black activists released a statement reaffirming their “solidarity with the Palestinian struggle”

Black activists send clear message to Palestinians: (more…)

Visions from the Inside: Detained Immigrant Women Speak Out in Letters and Pictures

By Tina Vasquez on August 19, 2015

women prison -Zeke Pena

Women Prison -Zeke Pena

If you went by the GEO Group’s description, you’d never know the “Karnes County Residential Center” in Karnes City, Texas, is actually a jail for undocumented immigrants. According to the world’s leading provider of “correctional and detention management and community reentry services,” Karnes County Residential Center is “a safe, clean, and family friendly environment for families under the care of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).” (more…)

Could Black People in the U.S. Qualify as Refugees?

By Raha Jorjani on August 14, 2015

Suppose a client walked into my office and told me that police officers in his country had choked a man to death over a petty crime. Suppose he said police fatally shot another man in the back as he ran away. (more…)

Homeless Man with Prosthetic Leg Brutalized by San Francisco Police

Aug 19, 2015

Police brutality against black men has become so pervasive in the US that practically the entire adult population of the country, and of a large part of the world, is aware of what is happening. You might think that every domestic police force is taking measures to correct the situation. You would be wrong, however. (more…)

Greek Radical Left Will Present its Own Slate of Candidates in Next Elections

August 21, 2015

 

Dissidents from the Syriza Party in Greece announced today its own list of candidates for the early elections to be held in late September or early October of this year. (more…)

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