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Can U.N. talks bring peace to Yemen?

June 8 — Even though peace talks are slated to begin on June 14 in Geneva between the major parties…

June 13, 2015

Canadian genocide condemned

Beginning in 1820 and continuing until the 1980s in some provinces, Canada had an explicit policy of erasing the culture,…

June 13, 2015

Tariq Aziz, former deputy prime minister of Iraq

Workers World publishes the following obituary for Tariq Aziz, written by two former United Nations humanitarian coordinators for Iraq who…

June 13, 2015

African-American and Palestine liberation

A series of opinion articles have been published recently in Newsweek contradictorily condemning and praising the Barack Obama administration’s efforts…

June 13, 2015

Down with Greek austerity. Let the bankers pay!

Since February, shortly after the electoral bloc Syriza won Greece’s national elections on an anti-austerity program, negotiations have been going…

June 10, 2015

Criminal blockade of Cuba still in force

Ads and articles promoting travel to Cuba seem to be everywhere. Didn’t President Barack Obama announce a new relationship with…

June 10, 2015

End war in Ukraine!

Washington backs bombing on Russian border June 8 -- Ukraine’s far-right government, backed by Washington, launched a new military offensive…

June 9, 2015

Mass protest confronts G7 summit

Like medieval lords plotting against an impending peasant revolt after a bad harvest, the heads of the seven most powerful…

June 9, 2015

Departamento de Estado EUA a Haití: Sin dinero, no hay elecciones

El parlamento haitiano esencialmente se disolvió hace meses cuando finalizaron los términos de todos sus miembros, a excepción de 10…

June 9, 2015

Puerto Rico, the colony, part 2: Puerto Ricans resist

Puerto Rico has been selling itself off since the 1990s, when the telephone company was privatized under Gov. Pedro Rosello.…

June 4, 2015