By Alice Speri on May 10, 2016
Alabama prisoners who have been on strike for 10 days over unpaid labor and prison conditions are accusing officials of retaliating against their protest by starving them. (more…)
By George Katsiaficas on May 11, 2016
Decades ago George Orwell warned us that in 1984, war would be peace, truth would be lies, and love would be hate. Over the years, I’ve caught glimpses of what Orwell had in mind. But it is not until 2016 that I feel I can say his prognosis has come completely true. Thank you, Barack Obama, for that. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera, May 6, 2016
The holding in Panama of almost 4000 Cuban migrants, a number which will be rising, has prolonged and threatens to worsen the political crisis created last November when something similar happened in Costa Rica. (more…)
By Diana Block on May 13, 2016
Emory Douglas, BPP Minister of Culture, with Mukhles Burgal and his son.
At the end of March 2016, I was part of a nineteen-member Prisoner Solidarity and Labor Delegation that traveled from the United States, the country with the largest number of prisoners in the world, to Palestine, a nation where 40% of the male population has been imprisoned. (This article focuses on the prisoner solidarity portion of the delegation. (more…)
By Ellen Brown on May 14, 2016
Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty. (more…)
May 16, 2016
The undersigned, intellectuals, artists, writers, researchers and social movement organizations from all over the world denounce the coup underway in Brazil and stand in solidarity with President Dilma Rousseff who was elected by 54 million Brazilians only one year and a half ago. (more…)
May 13, 2016
Michel Temer has waged an all-out attack on the country’s most progressive social and political achievements.
All White Male Cabinet
Senate-imposed president Michel Temer unveiled his cabinet Thursday and his choices are drawing criticism for failing to represent Brazil’s diversity.
Temer’s cabinet has no women, no Black ministers, no one who identifies as gay, lesbian, or trangender, nor anyone representing social movements or any other of Brazil’s minority groups. (more…)
By Sergio Alejandro Gómez on May 13, 2016
Photo: Ismael Francisco
While Cuba and the United States have made important progress over the last 17 months, economic and commercial relations continue to be hampered by the blockade which remains in full force despite modifications, the Ministry of Foreign Relations (Minrex) reported yesterday, May 12, in a press conference. (more…)