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Spanish Elections: Who’s Who?

December 19, 2015

Spain is headed to elections on Sunday and two new political players are posing a serious challenge to the dominance of the country’s two leading parties, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and the conservative Popular Party (PP). (more…)

‘We Are Human Beings; We Are Not Dogs’

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan on December 10, 2015

On the outskirts of the northern French town of Calais, a massive, makeshift refugee camp called “The Jungle” grows daily, swelling with asylum-seekers fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan and beyond. (more…)

Via Campesina Defies Ban, Holds Protest in Paris Against Danone

December 9, 2015

The activists painted the entrance way to Danone’s offices red to denounce the negative impact of the transnational corporation in the daily life of millions of peasants. (more…)

Monsanto to Be Sued For Ecocide at International Hague Court

December 5, 2015

The special tribunal aims at contributing to recognize the crime of ecocide in international law.

An international collective of jurists and environmental groups launched Thursday the international Monsanto Tribunal, with headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, in order to sue Monsanto Corporation and other multinationals over environment and health crimes. (more…)

Russia Accuses Turkey of Downing Jet as Planned Provocation

November 25, 2015

​The Russian foreign minister says U.S.-controlled NATO is covering up Turkey’s gunning down of the Su-24. (more…)

Steering the Masses Towards Total War

By Larry Chin on November 16, 2015

It goes without saying that the atrocities of Paris on November 13, 2015 were unspeakable and sickening. But what is not being said in the wake of the incident—what has been ignored by the mass media—is predictably telling and ominous. (more…)

Shadows of Algeria: the Lost Context of the Paris Attacks

By Robert Fisk on November 17, 2015

It wasn’t just one of the attackers who vanished after the Paris massacre. Three nations whose history, action–and inaction–help to explain the slaughter by Isis have largely escaped attention in the near-hysterical response to the crimes against humanity in Paris: Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Syria. (more…)

Is the Horror in Paris Different from that of Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon?

By Carlos Aznárez on November 14, 2015

Once again, Paris has become a battle field. Dozens dead, hundreds injured along with the same type of response coming from the French Government that they had on the jihadist attacks that took place in the United States and Spain when similar actions generated identical massacres. (more…)

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