October 6, 2016
Photo: Bill Hackwell
A total of 49 fines have been imposed, during Barack Obama’s Administration, to US and foreign entities for violating the US Embargo against Cuba according to the records of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Government. (more…)
By Vanessa Beeley on October 13, 2016
It should be personal to all of us. Yemen, regularly portrayed as the poorest nation in the Arab world, is proving itself to be the richest in courage, resourcefulness and resilience.
Ever since March 2015, some of you may have noticed how oil-rich Saudi Arabia, with the United States at its side, have been waging genocidal war against the Yemeni people. (more…)
By William M.LeoGrande on October 6, 2016
Cuban President Raul Castro and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at Revolution Palace, photo: Ismael Francisco
Recent visits to Cuba by a bevy of European and Asian leaders highlight a key element of Raul Castro’s foreign policy that has he pursued alongside normalization with the United States: (more…)
By Kim Ives on October 12, 2016
The images and accounts of Haiti’s devastation following Hurricane Matthew’s passage on Oct. 4 are gut-wrenching. The death toll is in the hundreds and continues to rise. Entire villages in the country’s southwest were obliterated. (more…)
October 10th, 2016
For Immediate Release
Press Contacts: Dallas Goldtooth, 708-515-6158, [email protected]
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Cannon Ball, ND – The U.S. Court of Appeals Sunday night rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for a temporary injunction to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline thru traditional unceded Oceti Sakowin treaty lands near the Missouri River. (more…)
October 9, 2016
International aid has begun to pour into Haiti, where Hurricane Matthew has left nearly 900 dead and sparked a new cholera outbreak, raising anew troubling questions about Bill and Hillary Clinton’s involvement in the snakebit island nation.
Did the Clinton’s foreign policy, lobbying, and philanthropy following the ruinous 2010 Haiti earthquake do more harm than good? (more…)
By Catherine Shakdam on October 7, 2016
Afghanistan, it has been said, is the place where empires come to die. And while we might still fail to grasp all the geopolitical entanglements of this Afghan War, it is clear America overestimated its ability to project power in Central Asia. (more…)
October 6, 2016
Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal has leveled a federal lawsuit against officials in the Pennsylvania prison system for denying treatment to him for hepatitis C, which has reached life-threatening levels. (more…)