By Carlos Aznárez on June 3, 2016
“People won’t allow being misled and sooner than later they will rise up.” Many of us have said that in worse circumstances than the one we are now living in Argentina and the continent. (more…)
June 2, 2016
The United States and the United Nations refuse to protect the world’s most vulnerable asset — migrant children — and refuse to defend its most valuable asset, its children. (more…)
By Dave Zirin on June 6, 2016
Photo by Ralph Merlino
Muhammad Ali’s saga is without parallel: the champion boxer who was the most famous draft resister in history; a man whose phone was bugged by the Johnson and Nixon administrations yet who later was invited to the White House of Gerald Ford; (more…)
By Glen Ford on June 1, 2016
Two years ago, President Obama said he had no strategy to combat the Islamic State. The U.S. is still not waging war against ISIS or “jihadists of any brand in Syria.” The international iihadist network is a U.S. imperial asset. (more…)
By Eric Zuesse on June 4, 2016
The FSA is America’s chosen group of fighters (Barack Obama’s terms for them are ‘the moderate opposition’ and ‘moderate rebels’, but they’re just the people that the U.S. government overtly back — not back covertly like Syria’s branch of Al Qaeda and some other groups). (more…)
June 5, 2016
Dozens of Palestinian activists rallied on Sunday in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron to mark the 49th anniversary of the “Naksa,” when Israeli forces occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Syria’s Golan Heights and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in 1967. (more…)
By Marco A. Torres on June 5, 2016
Local elections are being held in 14 Mexican states, where candidates have not dared speak of the unprecedented complicity of politicians with violent criminal groups. (more…)
Full text of remarks by Raul Castro Ruz, President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers, opening the 7th Association of Caribbean States Summit, June 4, 2016
By Raúl Castro Ruz on June 4, 2016
Photo: Ismael Francisco
Distinguished Heads of State and/or Government,
Esteemed Ambassador Alfonso Munera Cavadia, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States, (more…)