October 23, 2016
Not long after the Zapatista National Liberation Army and the National Indigenous Congress resolved to present an Indigenous woman as an independent candidate for the 2018 presidential elections, the rebel group began to receive criticism. (more…)
By Ansel Herz on Oct 19, 2016
Two thousand Seattle Washingto-area teachers wore shirts declaring “Black Lives Matter” to school today. The action was in response to bomb threats that almost derailed a black student empowerment event at John Muir elementary school last month. (more…)
By Robert Parry on October 18, 2016
Note how differently The New York Times prepares the American public for civilian casualties from the new U.S.-backed Iraqi government assault on the city of Mosul to free it from the Islamic State, compared to the unrelenting condemnation of the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on neighborhoods of east. (more…)
October 20, 2016
Dressed in black, Argentine women took to the streets to protest the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, the latest incident of gender violence to shock the country.
Others walked off the job as a sign of protest. (more…)
By Andalusia Knoll Soloff on October 18, 2016
‘The U.S. bears a tremendous responsibility for the fact that Colombians are convinced that … the guerillas are the ones who are most responsible for the civil war,’ one NGO worker told Mint Press. (more…)
October 21, 2016
Leader’s from Venezuela’s opposition appeared to call for a coup against President Nicolas Maduro, after the country’s Supreme Court ruled that the presidential recall referendum would be temporarily suspended due to fraud committed in the first phase of the process. (more…)
October 19, 2016
The “overwhelming majority” of Palestinian minors held in Israel’s Megiddo and Ofer prisons have been tortured during their detention and interrogation, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said Tuesday, amid a marked increase in the incarceration and mistreatment of Palestinian children by Israel. (more…)
By Sergio Alejandro Gómez on October 19, 2016
After decades of secret documents concealing sabotage and destabilization plans, Barack Obama’s new presidential policy directive on Cuba was publicly unveiled on Friday, October 14. (more…)