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Perspective on the Iranian protests

Mass demonstration in Iran’s provincial cities made international news as 2017 ended and elicited tweets from the U.S. president warning…

January 9, 2018

Palestinian youth defy Trump and Israeli soldiers

“The young women shown assaulting the soldiers ‘should finish their lives in prison’” was the view expressed by Israeli Education…

January 8, 2018

U.S. sanctions, cryptocurrency and blockchain

A recent front-page headline of the New York Times read, "To Evade Sting of U.S. Sanctions Nations Ponder Digital Currency."…

January 8, 2018

Venezuela socialists win local election landslide

In a stunning victory for Bolivarian Venezuela, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won municipal elections in 23 of…

January 5, 2018

Protesters say, ‘No pardon for Fujimori’s crimes’

January 3 — Braving frigid temperatures, members of New York City’s Peruvian community and supporters held a lunchtime picket outside…

January 5, 2018

Bay Area Hondurans denounce ‘electoral coup’

San Francisco — In solidarity with their compatriots in Honduras, who have poured into the streets of that Central American…

January 4, 2018

Miners’ deaths spark growing protests

Brothers Houcine and Jedouane drowned in a clandestine, flooded, handmade mine in Jerada, Morocco, on Dec. 22. When their bodies…

January 3, 2018

People’s Korea resists U.S. threats

Where does the danger of yet another war come from? Does it come from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,…

January 2, 2018

Honduras: The people’s movement fights electoral fraud

Jan. 1 — Hondurans have been in the streets risking their lives to protest fraud in the recent presidential election…

January 2, 2018

Peru: Tens of thousands protest release of right-wing dictator Fujimori

On Dec. 24, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) shocked Peruvians and the world by pardoning former right-wing dictator Alberto Fujimori.…

January 2, 2018