Edited by Ed Newman on December 17, 2025
Julian Assange
Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint in Sweden accusing 30 individuals associated with the Nobel Foundation, including its leadership, of committing serious suspected crimes, including the crime of gross misappropriation of funds, facilitation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the financing of the crime of aggression. (more…)
December 13, 2025
Today, from Havana, the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez disqualified the Nobel Peace Prize committee, stating it awards recognition to allies of the United States and like-minded governments. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 13, 2025
Nicolas Maduro
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Within the narrow spectrum of establishment punditry, “dictator” functions as a term of opprobrium reserved for governments Washington designates as enemies. By this measure, Maduro is cast as the dictator, while Zelenskyy is sanctified as democratic. (more…)
October 26,2025
The 17th Meeting of Cubans Resident in Europe (ECRE) commenced in Italy with a patriotic march through central avenues of Rome, a regional event of nationals from the Island in support of their people and their country’s government. (more…)
October 14, 2025
Venezuela’s Embassy in Oslo after it was closed on Oct. 13. Fredrik Varfjel/AFP
On Monday, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced that it has begun the first phase of a comprehensive restructuring of its foreign service, ordering the closure of its embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia.“As part of the strategic reallocation of resources, the closure of the embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia has been ordered,” the ministry said in a statement. (more…)
By Ivan Restrepo on October 13, 2025
Migration is neither a recent phenomenon nor unique to a particular part of the world. foto: AFP
In February 1947, Eleanor Roosevelt, writer and activist, and wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945); Peng Chun Chang, Chinese scholar, philosopher, human rights activist, and diplomat; and Charles Habib Malik, Lebanese scholar, diplomat, and philosopher, began drafting what would become known a year later as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was adopted by the countries that were part of the nascent United Nations (UN). It was a response to the “acts of barbarism outrageous to the conscience of mankind” committed during World War II. The declaration was signed at the Chaillot Palace in Paris. (more…)
October 5, 2025
Gustavo Petro. Photo: Presidency of Colombia.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has out right rejected US attacks on ships in the Caribbean as part of the fight against international drug trafficking. (more…)
By Sacha Llorenti September 19, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Historian Eric Hobsbawn described the 20th century as a short one that began in 1914 with the start of World War I and ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He called this period the Age of Extremes. (more…)