October 25, 2015
Polls opened in Colombian local elections on Sunday as around 19.3 million people are expected to cast their vote. (more…)
Mauricio Macri, opposition, and Daniel Scioli, ruling party, face a Nov. 2 runoff to succeed President Cristina Kirchner
October 26, 2015
Argentine voters have forced a runoff between the two top candidates to succeed President Cristina Kirchner, a polarizing leader. (more…)
By Ray Hanania on October 18, 2015
Protests in Chicago Sunday Oct. 18, 2015 against Israel’s occupation. Photo courtesy of Dr. Atiyeh Salem
Nearly 15,000 people protesting Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians and the failure of the news media to fairly cover the conflict marched through the heart of America’s second largest city in America, sending a loud and clear message that Palestine must be free. (more…)
By Max J. Castro on October 14, 2015
Irony is dead, some fools declared after 9/11. In the same prophetic and wrongheaded vein, a think tank sage declared the end of history after the end of the Cold War and the apparent global triumph of anything-goes capitalism. But irony never dies and history has no final chapter, unlike what Hegel, and his rebel disciple, Marx, imagined. (more…)
October 18, 2015
Russian attack jets have hit 51 Islamic State targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, including four command posts, six arms depots, a mortar battery, two underground bunkers, 32 field camps and six outposts. (more…)
By Bill Van Auken on October 13, 2015
Just days after terminating its disastrously failed program to arm and train US-backed “rebels” in Syria, the Pentagon announced Monday that US Air Force C-17 cargo planes escorted by fighter jets airdropped some 50 tons of arms, ammunition and grenades to anti-government forces. (more…)
By Stephen Lendman on October 17, 2015
Changing US explanations following the October 3 Kunduz hospital attack were all lies – willful deception, covering up a deliberate attack on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) facility.
Pentagon officials knew it was a hospital, yet attacked it anyway … (more…)
October 13, 2015
We are a group of Palestinian, Arab and International figures, who greatly appreciate and admire the inexhaustible creativity and sacrifice in their defense of their dignity and independence. (more…)