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…)
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…)
November 14, 2016
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…)
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…)
By Jacques Kmieciak on November 11,2016
It 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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)