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…)
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…)
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…)
November 25, 2015
The Russian foreign minister says U.S.-controlled NATO is covering up Turkey’s gunning down of the Su-24. (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
August 27, 2015
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has said he will not stand in “sad” elections expected in the debt-ridden country next month. (more…)