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Palestinians celebrate release of hunger striker Bilal Kayed

Over 1,000 Palestinians gathered Dec. 12 in the town of Asira ash-Shamaliya, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, to…

January 2, 2017

Haiti: Election protests continue

Beginning shortly after the Nov. 20 Haitian election and continuing almost daily since, over 30 massive, militant demonstrations have filled…

January 2, 2017

Humanitarian Crisis at the Tijuana-San Diego Border

On visits from San Diego to Tijuana, Mexico, I was able to learn from Makeda Makossa and Professor Wilner Metelus…

December 31, 2016

Political crisis in South Korea: What’s behind the president’s impeachment

A major political crisis is shaking south Korea, but you would barely know it if you depend on the corporate…

December 31, 2016

Ultra-right parties take anti-EU stance

The European Union faces challenges to its existence. At least three major countries in the EU — France, the Netherlands…

December 31, 2016

U.S. Out of Syria

The city of Aleppo in Syria has been liberated from reactionary fighters — those supported by the U.S., Qatar, Saudi…

December 21, 2016

Fidel’s ‘battle of ideas’ comes to Twitter

It is now two years since the last three of the Cuban 5 heroes, unjustly held in U.S. prisons for…

December 21, 2016

U.S. threats in South China Sea

Does the People’s Republic of China have the right to defend its sovereignty in the waters surrounding China? What are…

December 20, 2016

A century of lies about Russia

“Documents prove Lenine and Trotzky hired by Germans” was the New York Times’ front-page headline, Sept. 15, 1918. The sensational…

December 20, 2016

Speaking tour exposes U.S. lies about Syria

Independent Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett has continued her U.S. speaking tour representing the Hands Off Syria Coalition. Before a packed…

December 19, 2016