By Salah Lamrani on January 8, 2016
“Since our birth, we are subjected to oppression, intimidation, persecution and terror, so that even the walls frightened us. Even the walls! Is there anybody who has not suffered injustice and oppression in this country? (more…)
You’d hardly know it from the media, but a U.S.-backed coalition is pummeling the poorest Middle Eastern country
By Ben Norton on January 9, 2016
Centers for the blind can now be added to the list of civilian areas bombed by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen — along with wedding halls, hospitals, residential neighborhoods and humanitarian aid warehouses. (more…)
January 6, 2015
As President Obama takes executive action on gun control without going through Congress, could closing Guantánamo be next? (more…)
By Garry Leech on January 11, 2016
President Barack Obama took to the stage last week to announce the latest initiative in his crusade to make it more difficult for Americans to purchase firearms. He even shed some tears for American children killed in mass shootings. (more…)
When a criminal justice system born in Native American genocide and Black slave patrolling finds itself in conflict with conservative white Christian landowners, it short-circuits.
By Glen Ford on January 8, 2016
The armed right-wing activists that seized control of a federal wildlife sanctuary compound in eastern Oregon have already committed – and conspired to commit – enough serious criminal violations of U.S. law to land each of them in federal prison for the rest of lives. (more…)
December 30, 2015
An editorial from La Jornada
The Mexican Foreign Ministry announced [on Wednesday] (Dec. 28) an accord reached by Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Mexico to carry out a pilot test in January for the purpose of taking to Mexico (more…)
By Eva Golinger on January 8, 2016
Henry Ramos Allup is described as “rude,” “repellent” and always “asking for money” in a secret U.S. document.
In a document classified as secret by the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, Ambassador William Brownfield had strong words about the newly elected president of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Henry Ramos Allup. (more…)
January 11, 2016
On Feb. 21, Bolivians will decide whether to modify the 2009 constitution to allow President Evo Morales to run again in 2019. (more…)