By Robert Fisk on November 17, 2015
It wasn’t just one of the attackers who vanished after the Paris massacre. Three nations whose history, action–and inaction–help to explain the slaughter by Isis have largely escaped attention in the near-hysterical response to the crimes against humanity in Paris: Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Syria. (more…)
By Bill Berkowitz on November 17, 2015
This is a story about the ginned-up “superpredator” scare of the 1990s, the imprisonment of tens of thousands of black youth, and the survival of Reginald Dwayne Betts. (more…)
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan on November 18, 2015
In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, there has been a crushing backlash against refugees from the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (more…)
November 19, 2015
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ordered his Foreign Minister, Delcy Rodriguez to establish an urgent meeting with U.S. charge d’affaires in Venezuela, (more…)
By Resumen Latinoamericano North America Bureau on November 18, 2015
Photo: Bill Hackwell
Kenya Serrano Puig, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples and Leima Martinez of the North America Department of that institution have just finished a tour of several cities in the United States to strengthen the ties of solidarity between the two countries. (more…)
November 18, 2015
A complex situation has developed recently involving more than 1,000 Cubans who have arrived in Costa Rica, from other countries in the region, with the intention of traveling to the United States (more…)
By Max J. Castro on November 10, 2015
Marco Rubio is the most dangerous Republican in America.
He is not the most obnoxious, not by a long shot. Donald Trump has that dubious distinction locked up, and there are others I would put ahead of Rubio in this category. (more…)
By Bruce A. Dixon on November 11, 2015
There have never been more black elected and appointed officials, more black corporate and military functionaries, more black faces on TV and in the movies than there are right now. There’s been a black family in the White House for seven years already and the first lady is from the south side of Chicago. (more…)