US Military Plans to Dump 20,000 Tons of Heavy Metals and Explosives Into the Oceans

By Dahr Jamail on November 15, 2016, Truthout

The US Navy has been conducting war-game exercises in US waters for decades, and in the process, it has left behind tons of bombs, heavy metals, missiles, sonar buoys, high explosives and depleted uranium munitions that are extremely harmful to both humans and marine life. (more…)

U.S. Imposes New Fine for Trading with Cuba

November 16, 2016

On November 14, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed a fine of $5,976,028 on the U.S. based multinational National Oilwell Varco and its subsidiaries Dreco Energy Services and NOV Elmar. (more…)

Israel Moves Forward with Bill to Ban Muslim Call to Prayer over Loudspeakers

November 14, 2016

A mosque in Ramallah, MaanImages/Anna Kokko

A mosque in Ramallah, MaanImages/Anna Kokko

The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved on Sunday draft legislation which could ban the use of loudspeakers to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer in Israel. (more…)

Free and Fair Elections in Haiti!

November 14, 2016

Haiti’s Presidential election, postponed from the scheduled date of Oct. 9th due to Hurricane Mathew, is now scheduled for November 20th, 2016.  (more…)

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has Begun his 33rd Year of Detention in France

By Jacques Kmieciak on November 11,2016

france-pol-prisonerIt was the highlight of a week-long international mobilization. On Saturday October 22nd 2016, 400 people marched to the penitentiary centre in Lannemezan, in the Pyrenees, to demand the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (1). (more…)

What’s New About Colombia’s ‘New’ FARC-Govt Peace Deal?

November 13, 2016

Colombia’s fraught peace process hit a breakthrough Saturday as the government and the largest rebel army, the FARC, signed a revised agreement to bring an end to over half a century of civil war after the deal was narrowly defeated at the ballot box last month.  (more…)

At Standing Rock, A Native American Woman Elder Says “This is What I Have Been Waiting for My Entire Life”

By Ann Wright on November 8, 2016

This time I have been at Standing Rock, North Dakota at the Oceti Shakowin camp to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) for four days during a whirlwind of national and international attention following two terrible displays of police brutality toward the water protectors. (more…)

Venezuela’s Dialogue: A Win for Maduro and the Revolution

By Lucho Granados Ceja on November 13, 2016

Recently there have been a handful of moments where Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution looked like it was on the brink of being defeated. (more…)

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