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WikiLeaks Reveals EU Planned Military Action Against Libyan Refugees

Operation Sophia aims to reduce flow of migrants, with force.

By Branko Marcetic on March 3, 2016

With far-right sentiment on the rise across Europe, the once widespread sympathy for African and Middle Eastern migrants has evaporated, leaving them facing vitriol and violence from the citizens of the countries they hope to make their new homes. (more…)

The Davos Blind Eye: How the Rich Eat the Poor and the World

The Big Lies

By Prof. John McMurtry on January 24, 2016

Impression of the making of the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos

The just-released Oxfam Davos Report which the mass media have ignored arrestingly shows that 62 individuals – 388 in 2010 – now own more wealth than 50% of the world’s population. (more…)

WTO Favours Developed Countries, not the Peasants and Poor People

December 18, 2015

Under capitalism production is not for consumption but for trade to make profits. Countries particularly the developing ones are being forced to open their borders and markets to cheap and low quality agricultural commodities from countries such as the US, China, EU, Brazil etc. (more…)

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…)

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