October 30, 2016
Newly released audio has revealed that the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lamented the United States’ failure to rig the 2006 Palestinian election which saw the Hamas party claim a landslide victory over the Western-backed, and more moderate, Fatah. (more…)
By Nadia Prupis on October 28, 2016
Police arrested 141 people in North Dakota on Thursday, moving in with pepper spray and armored tanks on Native American water protectors and other activists who for months have waged resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). (more…)
Ben Norton on October 28, 2016
Saudi Arabia, a theocratic absolute monarchy that carries out mass executions of dissidents, beheads drug dealers, systematically subjugates women and has supported extremist groups like al-Qaida and ISIS, was re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on October 24, 2016
Photo: Bill Hackwell
Just like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel and NATO, in their quest to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, the Venezuelan right wing opposition has not abandoned its intention of removing Nicolas Maduro’s government. (more…)
By John Pilger on October 28, 2016
In 1929, he persuaded feminists to promote cigarettes for women by smoking in the New York Easter Parade – behavior then considered outlandish. One feminist, Ruth Booth, declared, “Women! Light another torch of freedom! Fight another sex taboo!” (more…)
October 26, 2016
Democracy Now interviews former Black Panthers and political prisoners Sekou Odinga, Albert Woodfox, Robert King and Eddie Conway on the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party
50 Years After Founding of Black Panther Party, Some Members Still Locked Up As Political Prisoners
Robert King, one of the Angola 3, Photo: Bill Hackwell
Some members of the Black Panther Party have been behind bars for more than four decades and are now suffering from poor health. In some cases, court documents show they were punished essentially for being in the black liberation struggle. (more…)