By Bill Van Auken on June 24, 2016
Secretary of State John Kerry met Tuesday morning with several of the State Department “diplomats” who drafted an internal dissent memo calling for the US to launch air strikes against the Syrian government, (more…)
June 21, 2016
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Officials of Israel’s prison service Tuesday stormed the cells of Palestinian prisoners affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) at Israel’s Rimon prison and searched their belongings, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement. (more…)
June 26, 2016
Lopez Obrador called on people to protest the “political mafia” and “hypocritical conservatives” in the country.
More than 4,000 police officers have been deployed in central Mexico City as thousands of protesters have started to gather at the emblematic Independence Angel monument, (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on June 24, 2016
Not since the time that Cuba was in the OAS have words so clear and emphatic been heard there than the ones recently made by the Venezuelan Bolivarian Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez. It was a real rush of fresh air bursting into an area that has always represented the official tentacles of U.S. foreign policy for Latin America. (more…)
June 26, 2016
Sisters, brothers, friends and supporters:
June 26th marks 41 years since the long summer day when three young men were killed at the home of the Jumping Bull family, near Oglala, during a firefight in which I and dozens of others participated. (more…)
June 23, 2016
President of Cuba Raul Castro stated today that peace will be a victory of Colombia, but also of Our America, when speaking at the signing ceremony of the ceasefire between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. (more…)
June 20, 2016
I have the privilege of addressing you today on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild. Founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association, which did not admit people of color, the Guild is the oldest and largest public interest/human rights bar organization in the United States, (more…)
By Nina Lakhani on June 21, 2016
A unit trained by US Special Forces was ordered to kill the environmental activist who was slain in March, according to an ex-member who now fears for his life. (more…)