Statement from Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movement in Defense of Humanity
July 4, 2016
The Executive Secretariat of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity condemns the aggression suffered by the workers of the newspaper Tiempo Argentino, (more…)
By BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka on June 28, 2016
“Critics of this strategy playing a dangerous game by empowering what had always been the lunatic fringe of Islam.”
What is clear is that there is a context – no matter how painful to admit – of U.S. and Western complicity in creating the very forces that now terrorize the imagination of publics in the West. (more…)
By Carlos Aznarez on June 29, 2016
The question of the installation of U.S. bases is being floated around in the air and there are very valid reasons to be concerned about it. Argentina can become in a very short time a militarized colony of the United States as Paraguay effectively is. (more…)
July 2, 2016
The striking CNTE teachers, entering their third month of protest, announced on Saturday they will hold an indefinite strike against neoliberal education reform starting Tuesday. (more…)
By Glenn Greenwald on June 30, 2016
From the start of the campaign to impeach Brazil’s democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff, the primary justification was that she used a budget trick known as pedaladas (“peddling”: illegal delay of re-payments to state banks) to mask public debt. But this week, as the Senate conducts her impeachment trial, that accusation was obliterated: (more…)
By Maren Mantovani on June 29, 2016
It is time for European citizens to demand not a penny more of their tax money be spent on Israeli military and security corporations
As European leaders are gathered in Brussels to discuss the future of the EU, they would be well advised to put into effect values of accountability, justice and solidarity – and halt funding for Israel’s repressive apparatus against Palestinians. (more…)
By Jim Hightower on June 29, 2016
Art by Nancy Ohanian
The most shocking thing about “Brexit”—the British people’s resounding vote to pull their country out of the European Union—is that it came as such a shock to the British establishment. (more…)
Cuba is poorer and, because of the longtime embargo, has had less access to drugs and medical equipment. Yet its citizens live just as long as, if not longer than, people in the U.S.
By: Tonyaa J. Weathersbeeon: June 27, 2016
Whenever I hear Cubans talk about their nation’s advancements in health care, and when I think about where the U.S. is on all this, what I hear is a tale of two scarcities. The tales, however, end differently for the people of color who are the main characters. (more…)