By Diana Block on May 13, 2016
Emory Douglas, BPP Minister of Culture, with Mukhles Burgal and his son.
At the end of March 2016, I was part of a nineteen-member Prisoner Solidarity and Labor Delegation that traveled from the United States, the country with the largest number of prisoners in the world, to Palestine, a nation where 40% of the male population has been imprisoned. (This article focuses on the prisoner solidarity portion of the delegation. (more…)
By Ellen Brown on May 14, 2016
Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty. (more…)
By Paul R. Pillar on May 4, 2016
The neocon-engineered disaster in Iraq continues to unfold with protests now penetrating the super-secure Green Zone, but Official Washington resists obvious lessons, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. (more…)
May 7, 2016
Palestinian groups in Lebanon have shut down UNRWA offices across the country since Thursday as protests over controversial health care cuts continued. (more…)
By Eva Bartlett on May 8, 2016
The momentous Syrian-Russian liberation of world heritage site Palmyra on March 27, 2016, came and went with zero congratulations from world leaders who are supposedly fighting terrorism. (more…)
May 3, 2016
Damascus, SANA- The Health Ministry said on Tuesday that targeting al-Dhabeet Hospital in Aleppo city by the armed terrorist organizations left three pregnant women dead and put the hospital, which specialized in gynecology, fully out of service. (more…)
April 29, 2016
UN figures released Thursday revealed a four-fold increase from last year in the rate of Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures, that have left a record-high 808 Palestinians displaced since the start of 2016. (more…)
May 2, 2016
The workers set at least seven buses on fire to protest Binladen construction group firing of at least 70,000 laborers after six months of no pay.
Foreign workers at one of Saudi Arabia’s largest construction companies, Binladin group, set fire to at least seven buses in protest of being fired from their work after not being paid for more than six months, local media reported Sunday. (more…)