January 16, 2016
Pakistan on Saturday dispatched a ship carrying around 15,000 tons rice to Cuba as gratitude for Cuban support to Pakistan after 2005 earthquake. (more…)
By Salah Lamrani on January 8, 2016
“Since our birth, we are subjected to oppression, intimidation, persecution and terror, so that even the walls frightened us. Even the walls! Is there anybody who has not suffered injustice and oppression in this country? (more…)
You’d hardly know it from the media, but a U.S.-backed coalition is pummeling the poorest Middle Eastern country
By Ben Norton on January 9, 2016
Centers for the blind can now be added to the list of civilian areas bombed by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen — along with wedding halls, hospitals, residential neighborhoods and humanitarian aid warehouses. (more…)
By Robert Fisk on January 4, 2016
Saudi Arabia’s binge of head-choppings – 47 in all, including the learned Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, followed by a Koranic justification for the executions – was worthy of Isis. Perhaps that was the point. (more…)
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man on December 28, 2015
The army says aerial spraying was meant to ‘enable security operations.’ Palestinian farmers say hundreds of acres of crops were damaged or destroyed. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on December 30, 2015
Ryan Endicott speaking at an anti- war rally in Washington DC, March 19, 2011, photo: Bill Hackwell
The much touted capturing of the Iraqi city of Ramadi by the Iraqi military this past week may have been a momentary victory for the Obama Administration’s current strategy in Iraq but it came at a big expense. (more…)
By Dario de Urra Torriente, former Cuban Ambassador to Lebanon on December 21, 2015
Every day we wake up with our hearts in distress by the unfortunate events that hit the planet on a daily basis. Every morning there is news that announces a new violation of sovereignty to a country, a new injustice, aggression and a new murder. (more…)
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…)