By Michael J. Sainato on January 30, 2017
On January 28, President Trump signed an executive order denying entry for 90 days to the United States for individuals from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, and Somalia. (more…)
By Karen Lee Wald on January 28, 2017
Recently, The New York Times—in agreement with much other U.S. media and many politicians—published a long, teary article by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Frances Robles about the sufferings of a Cuban dental assistant who had endured great hardships as she passed through numerous South and Central American countries to get to the United States— (more…)
By Eric Draitser on January 26, 2017
The corporate media is predictably churning out nauseating retrospectives of Obama’s presidency, gently soothing Americans to sleep with fairy tales about the progressive accomplishments of President Hope and Change. (more…)
By Emir Sader on January 25, 2017
It was the inevitable road; one which exceeded all that history had lived up to before that point. Free trade, the opening of national markets, the end of nation states, the free flow of capital in the neo-liberal globalization river inexorably ended the historic movement of universalization of capitalist relations initiated centuries ago. (more…)
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on January 24, 2017
The United States has just experienced a corporate hijacking. If Trump’s inaugural speech did not alert you to the fact that they intend to come after all of us, then you are not paying attention. (more…)
January 25, 2017
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced on January 19 that the Great Housing Mission Venezuela (GMVV, Spanish acronym) had reached the goal of delivering 1,400,000 homes throughout the country. (more…)
January 25, 2017
An article by Haaretz accounts the methods that interrogators describe and brings light to torture practices that are known to be routinely and systematically used against Palestinian detainees. (more…)
January 25, 2017
en presidents and two first ministers of the 33 member countries attended the fifth Summit of the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC) took place in the tourist area of Bávaro, in the eastern side of the Dominican Republic. (more…)