By Carlos Aznarez on April 27, 2016
Many of you know that for 23 years we have been on a journalistic path to counter and break through the tsunami of dis information that comes from the main stream media on a daily basis. We have been doing this through not only a printed newspaper with several editions (Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, and Europe, and soon to come in the United States), (more…)
March 27, 2016
Photo: Ramon Frontera
On March 20, a brigade of fourteen activists, including the Hero of the Republic of Cuba Rene Gonzalez, climbed to the summit of Pico Duarte to call for the release of Puerto Rican independence freedom fighter Oscar Lopez Rivera. (more…)
By Jonathan Marshall on March 25, 2016
In what may be the most dramatic blowback yet from Western military intervention in the Middle East, terrorism and the mass influx of foreign migrants are now putting the very existence of the European Union at risk. (more…)
War Has Lasted Far Longer Than Saudi Arabia Expected
By Jason Ditz, March 27, 2016
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a this weekend to mark the first anniversary of the Saudi attack on the country. A number of top Shi’ite figures attended the rally and talked up next month’s planned peace talks. (more…)
March 28, 2016
Today Pakistan woke up shocked by a suicide attack in a public park last night. The attack which took place in the city of Lahore, killed at least 72 people and left around 330 wounded, most of them women and children. Zaeem Qadri, spokesman for the government of the Punjab province, told the press that 29 of the 72 dead were children. (more…)
By Marjorie Cohn on March 18, 2016
Young pioneers guard ballot box during municipal elections in Havana, Photo: Bill Hackwell
In advance of President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Cuba on March 20, there is speculation about whether he can pressure Cuba to improve its human rights. But a comparison of Cuba’s human rights record with that of the United States shows that the US should be taking lessons from Cuba. (more…)
Jesús Arboleya on March 17, 2016
As the moment nears, expectations grow for President Barack Obama’s impending visit to Cuba.
So far, the news have focused on the president’s likely activities, this past week’s announcement of new measures to relax the United States’ economic blockade, and the political stances of both governments regarding the event, issued through statements by functionaries or (more…)
Obama in Havana – A Long Time Coming…
Margarita Alarcon on March 16, 2016
It’s been a long, long time coming
But I know a change gonna come
Oh, yes it will
— Sam Cooke
When President Barack Obama visits Havana next week, his will be the first and only visit to the island by a sitting U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge came here during the roaring twenties, just a year before the stock market crash in 1929. (more…)