By Mike Ludwig, on October 20, 2016
When civil rights groups learned that a county elections board planned to relocate the polling station for a predominately Black precinct in Macon, Georgia, to a local sheriff’s office, they warned election officials that the move would unfairly discourage turnout. (more…)
By Héctor Planes on October 18, 2016
Josefina Vidal talking with students at the University of Havana Photo: Roberto Suarez
Beginning in the early hours of October 17 students from the University of Havana, in keeping with the international call for actions on the 17th of each month against the genocidal blockade of Cuba, rose up in a display of strength and unity against this injustice that has gone on way too long. (more…)
October 17, 2016
The Blockade Remains Intact
The new presidential directive towards Cuba announced Friday by the White House includes steps by the departments of Trade and the Treasury to favor bilateral scientific collaboration, the import of Cuban products by US citizens allowed visiting the island and scholarships. (more…)
The bosses’ sales culture turned employees into a syndicate of bank robbers.
By Jim Hightower on October 16, 2016
Just when you thought Big Banker greed surely bottomed out with 2008’s Wall Street crash and bailout, along comes Wells Fargo, burrowing even deeper into the ethical slime to reach a previously unimaginable level of corporate depravity. (more…)
By Stephanie Westbrook on October 17, 2016
The boycott of US information technology giant Hewlett-Packard has recently gained renewed interest, becoming the “hot new” target for Palestine solidarity campaigners in several countries. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on October 7, 2016
“This is an acknowledgment of all the hard work and the important initiative of President Santos”, the spokeswoman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, when announcing this year’s winner of the prize, which is becoming more and more meaningless with each edition. (more…)
By Paul Street on October 14, 2016
Much, maybe most, of the nation’s corporate, financial, and imperial establishment loathes Donald Trump. When’s the last time one of the corporate media’s presidential debate (more…)
By José A. Delgado on October 11, 2016
Photo: El Nuevo Dia
Just a few steps away from the White House, Clarisa López Ramos, the only daughter of Oscar López Rivera, confessed that she avoids thinking about the possibility that Barack Obama might leave the presidency of the United States (more…)