December 7, 2016
Puerto Rico has become the Wild West of Wall Street fraud, with the island’s politicians guiding the robbers. The latest scam – netting more than one billion dollars – was engineered by Goldman Sachs and executed by two governors from BOTH political parties: (more…)
December 11, 2016
“Dear Norway, arrest Henry Kissinger, the man that planned the coup d’etat in which my grandfather was killed,” he wrote.
As the legacy of Chile’s former CIA-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet still haunts the South American country 10 years after his death, a grandson of ousted socialist President Salvador Allende called on Norwegian authorities Sunday to arrest former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (more…)
By Patrick Henningsen on December 8, 2016
As 21WIRE reported earlier this week, in a historic turning point in a five-year bloody conflict, the Syrian Arab Army liberated the Old City of Aleppo from the hands of occupying terrorists and armed militants. (more…)
December 10, 2016
Venezuela price regulators on Friday seized almost 4 million toys from warehouses around greater Caracas and said they’d distribute them to low income children ahead of Christmas. (more…)
By Glenn Greenwald on December 10, 2016
The Washington Post late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: The key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret. (more…)
Statement from the National Network on Cuba (U.S.)
December 10, 2016
The whole world reacted to the death of Cuba’s historic leader Fidel Castro. For most of us there was sorrow; respect for a life well lived. The revolutionary process he unleashed created measurable improvements to the lives of many ordinary people on every continent. (more…)
By Andrea Germanos on December 5, 2016
Former Gen. David Petraeus, who is on President-elect Donald Trump’s expanding list for secretary of state, leaked “far more highly classified” than Edward Snowden did—and did so for no public benefit—yet spent no time in prison. (more…)
December 3, 2016
In the month of November 2016, 527 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza were arrested, including 120 children and 11 women. 163 were arrested in Jerusalem (including 74 children) and 100 were arrested in al-Khalil. (more…)