By Mimi Whitefield on November 10, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump has said “concessions” the Obama administration made to Cuba can easily be reversed and that he will unravel them unless U.S. demands are met, but some of the commercial initiatives may be a bit harder to undo than merely signing an executive order. (more…)
By John Steppling on November 10, 2016
“ If Trump is the price we have to pay to defeat Clintonian neoliberalism – so be it.”
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
Throughout this election I said I didn’t believe Trump wanted to win. And judging from the Podesta emails, the DNC helped engineer the Trump ascension to the Republican nomination. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on November 10, 2016
The blunt primitivism of the Republicans won out against the cunning hypocrisy of the Democrats. The Trump bulldozer that seems to run over everything that stands in its way was more effective than the deceiving and calculated moderation of Hillary Clinton. (more…)
By Edward Helmore on November 12, 2016
Nov. 13, over 10,000 people encircle Lake Merritt in Oakland Ca. in rejection of the Trump presidency. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Protests against the election of Donald Trump continued across the US on Saturday. In New York, where peaceful marches along downtown streets have taken place since Wednesday – (more…)
November 7, 2016
FSLN candidates, Daniel Ortega and running mate Rosario Murillo. Photo: el 19 digital
MANAGUA. — With 21.3% of the polling stations reporting, Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) announced that Daniel Ortega, candidate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) had received 71.3% of the vote. (more…)
By Maram Humaid November 1, 2016
For Samira Shawamreh, the cost of cancer treatment was that she and her husband had to divorce.
In 2014, Samira was diagnosed with bowel cancer. For treatment, she had to travel regularly between Hebron, where she then lived, and hospitals in Jerusalem and Beit Jala, also in the occupied West Bank. (more…)
By Julian Assange – John Pilger, in an interview conducted at the Embassy of Ecuador in London on November 5, 2016
John Pilger:
What’s the significance of the FBI’s intervention in these last days of the U.S. election campaign, in the case against Hillary Clinton? (more…)
November 4, 2016
Argentina’s Indigenous Tupac Amaru organization said Friday that three people with automatic weapons stormed their headquarters and demanded they cease their struggle to free their leader, Milagro Sala. (more…)