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War, lies and NGOs: Amnesty International’s Report on Syria

Amnesty International released a 48-page report on Feb. 6 to wide publicity and commentary from U.N. officials and U.S. politicians.…

February 26, 2017

Hundreds across U.S. protest Trump-Netanyahu meeting

Hundreds of Palestinians and their supporters across the U.S. demonstrated on Feb. 15 to protest a meeting and press conference…

February 26, 2017

Nine days in Northern Ireland

On July 6, 2013, while on vacation in Belfast, in the northern six counties of British-occupied Ireland, I visited a…

February 25, 2017

Mundo Obrero editor disrupts Puerto Rico fiscal board meeting

The Fiscal Control Board of Puerto Rico learned a valuable lesson in Philadelphia at a forum organized by the University…

February 21, 2017

Protest in Indonesia hits U.S. attack on immigrants

The following edited excerpt is from a Feb. 6 press release by the Indonesian Front of People’s Struggle (Front Perjuangan…

February 21, 2017

Can Romanians turn protests against corruption into a struggle against imperialism?

Beginning on Feb. 1, almost half-a-million protesters gathered in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, to protest a decriminalization decree that…

February 18, 2017

Oscar López’s bittersweet freedom

In a surprise action on Feb. 9, Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera returned to his homeland, Puerto Rico,…

February 14, 2017

Eyewitness: The ‘indomitable strength’ of Cuba’s Revolution

On Jan. 1, 1959, the Cuban people, with the leadership of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and others, overthrew the U.S.-backed…

February 14, 2017

Haitians protest ‘electoral coup d’etat’

The Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti (Komokoda) protested Feb. 4 at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, N.Y., against…

February 13, 2017

Thousands protest massacre in Quebec mosque

A white supremacist named Alexandre Bissonnette walked into the Grand Mosque in Quebec City, Canada, on Jan. 29 and allegedly…

February 10, 2017